We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget question is coming to us from Todd, who’s looking to snap up a solid cheap laptop (for his father-in-law , no less!) before that fateful Friday in December. Have a look below and hand out some Christmas cheer, won’t you
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Ask Engadget: Best non-netbook laptop for around $400?
The Federal Trade Commission may have a pretty big beef with Intel, but it looks like won’t be going as far as to seek a breakup of the company. That word comes straight from the director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition, Richard Feinstein, who flatly told reporters yesterday that the FTC has “no goal of breaking up Intel.” In case you missed it, this follows a lawsuit that the FTC filed against Intel earlier in the day yesterday, which alleges that the company has engaged in “anticompetitive tactics.” As you can see above, NVIDIA has already responded to that development in its usual manner.
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FTC won’t ask Intel to break up
We hate to harsh on a new phone platform — what could be more exciting, after all, than a whole new take on handset software? — but we’re pretty confused by Samsung’s Bada
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Samsung Bada UI unveiled in beautiful stills, reason for existing still blurry
Microsoft definitely copped some of Apple’s lame App Store antics with its tweet-censoring Zune HD Twitter app , so now it’s time for the infuriatingly vague PR-speak backtracking — Redmond just pinged us to say it’s “identified the issue” with the Twitter app and that a naughty words-enabling update is coming “as soon as possible.” That’s a pretty lame response, considering the “issue” is that the app is coded to actively censor tweets — not exactly an “oops” moment, you know? Here’s the entire statement: The recently released Twitter for Zune HD application has been abbreviating some explicit words in tweets when viewed on the device; however these explicit words do appear in their full text on the Twitter site or on any other Twitter client
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Microsoft updating Zune HD Twitter to stop censoring tweets
After a brief private testing period, Palm’s interesting Ares software development package has made its way into a public beta phase. Breaking tradition from Mojo — Palm’s other webOS SDK — the big news with Ares is that the dev environment is fully web-based with no additional tools needed for apps to get whipped into reality.
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Palm’s Ares SDK goes to public beta
No monkeys time time, but LaCie has just announced new storage option that should get folks plenty excited on its own: a new dual-drive 2Big USB 3.0 RAID drive developed in partnership with Symwave.
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LaCie and Symwave announce 2Big USB 3.0 dual-drive RAID
Intel’s Arrandale chips haven’t been the best-kept secret around , and today Chipzilla made ‘em official: the Core i3 and mobile Core i5 will launch on January 7, and we’d guess a bunch of new machines come along for the ride. Although the desktop Lynnfield Core i5 is a quad-core, both the new Core i3 and mobile Core i5 are dual-core — and in a first for Intel, both of the new chips have an integrated GPU core that’s being branded “Intel HD Graphics.” The new GPU is supposedly good enough for “high-end” HTPC use, but manufacturers can add switchable discrete GPUs, so don’t fret too much.
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Intel Core i3, mobile Core i5 processors coming January 7
Lenovo really went to town with its Olympics-branded gear , but while Acer is a major Winter Olympics partner (and keeping the spot for 2012 as well), it’s taking a bit more of a tame approach at the outset.
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Acer gets in the Olympic spirit with special edition Aspire Timeline 1810TZ
HTC was already in the Android software game by virtue of the fact that it drops a fully-customized UI and widget suite on some of its models, but this is new: they’ve migrated over to the Market. Now, what’d be insanely awesome here is if you could, say, buy Sense for $9.99 and install it on any Android device, but yeah, not so much — what we’ve actually got here is a four-pack of free widgets that are compatible with the Hero and Droid Eris
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HTC debuts widgets for Sense-equipped Android phones
We only got the briefest of glimpses at the new UI approach in Synaptics’ collaborative Fuse concept handset , and now TAT (The Astonishing Tribe, the folks behind the original Android UI), has posted a brief clip that gives a better idea of the full UI. It’s pretty wild, with some sort of rendering engine that really emphasizes depth, lighting and motion
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Second Fuse UI video shows wild, dynamically lit 3D interface
