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a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/59842844-d83a-11dd-bcc0-000077b07658,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/59842844-d83a-11dd-bcc0-000077b07658.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1amp;_i_referer=http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/02/look-out-fisker-and-tesla-lotus-to-jump-into-ev-game/amp;nclick_check=1"img hspace="4" border="0" align="right" vspace="14" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/01/lotus-logo-20090102-250.jpg" alt="Lotus powersliding into the hybrid car market" //aIf you want to make a car handle -- and handle well -- you call Lotus. Just ask a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/tesla"Tesla/a; without the help of the gearheads in Hethel, the US's hottest electric vehicle would probably still be just a concept. Perhaps dissatisfied with the relatively minimal PR love it's been receiving from the Tesla relationship, Lotus has announced plans to develop its emown /embattery-powered car. However, unlike the all-electric Roadster, this new offering will include a a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/volt"Volt/a-like supplementary fuel-burning engine to add a bit more range and, one would figure, rather a lot more mass. That's not exactly good news for those who worship the Lotus mantra of "to add speed, add lightness," but at this point we don't have any idea about what the thing will weigh, cost, or indeed look like. If all goes according to plan we should get some answers when those international automotive powerhouses who are still alive bum a ride to the Geneva Auto Show in March.br /br /[Via a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/02/look-out-fisker-and-tesla-lotus-to-jump-into-ev-game/"Autoblog/a]pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/transportation/" rel="tag"Transportation/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/02/lotus-powersliding-into-the-hybrid-car-market/"Lotus powersliding into the hybrid car market/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:18:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/59842844-d83a-11dd-bcc0-000077b07658,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/59842844-d83a-11dd-bcc0-000077b07658.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1amp;_i_referer=http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/02/look-out-fisker-and-tesla-lRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/02/lotus-powersliding-into-the-hybrid-car-market/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1417204/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/02/lotus-powersliding-into-the-hybrid-car-market/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a
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div align="center"a href="http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/01/android-netbooks-on-their-way-likely-by-2010/"img hspace="4" border="1" vspace="4" alt="Android installed and running on an Eee PC in a matter of hours" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/01/android-eee-pc-20090102-600.jpg" //abr //div
While Windows may be a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/asus-expects-windows-eee-pc-to-outsell-linux-counterpart-6-to-4/"more popular/a than Linux when it comes to netbooks for a variety of reasons, price certainly isn't one of them. We don't know whether it's peoples' fear of the unknown or just the awful UI facades typically used to hide the open-source alternative, but a lot of people are hoping that Android could sweep in and offer a third choice -- someday. Not content to wait, a couple of freelancers at emVentureBeat/em (who also run a startup called Mobile-facts)em /emspent a few hours tweaking Google's (Linux-based) OS to run on ASUS hardware and, thanks to the availability of open-source drivers for all the wee thing's wee devices, were up and running in no time. Mind you, the giant buttons and simplistic UI seem more suited to a a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/g1/"G1/a than an a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/s10/"S10/a, but it surely wouldn't take long to fix that. So, the only question now is when will a manufacturer step up and announce Android out of the box? There's a a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/ces"little electronics show/a coming up soon, so maybe we'll hear more there. br /br /[Via a href="http://de.engadget.com/2009/01/02/android-fur-netbooks/"Engadget German/a]pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"Laptops/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/02/android-installed-and-running-on-an-eee-pc-in-a-matter-of-hours/"Android installed and running on an Eee PC in a matter of hours/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:37:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/01/android-netbooks-on-their-way-likely-by-2010/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/02/android-installed-and-running-on-an-eee-pc-in-a-matter-of-hours/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1416942/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/02/android-installed-and-running-on-an-eee-pc-in-a-matter-of-hours/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a
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div align="center"a href="http://sites.google.com/site/onewheeledselfbalancing/"img hspace="4" border="1" vspace="4" alt="Man improves, adds a dose of trademark infringement to single-wheeled skateboard concept" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/01/one-wheel-self-balancing-20090102-430.jpg" //abr //div
Did you like the idea of Ben Smither's a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/meet-the-one-wheel-balancing-scooter-suck-it-segway/"single-wheeled, self-balancing scooter/a but wished the thing looked a little less... utilitarian? Check out John Dingley's one wheeled self-balancing skateboard project, aka "The No Snowboard," aka "The Hot Wheel." It was inspired by Smither's earlier creation and likewise relies on a single go cart racing slick in the center spun by a (slightly more powerful) 420W electric motor, but adds a lovely wooden surface and racing decals to the top, improving the look immensely. The rider leans in either direction to get the thing going (as demonstrated in motion below) and the slight curvature of the tire allows for turning just like you would with a normal skateboard. Right now maximum speed is a somewhat pedestrian 7 mph, but Dingley estimates that a Segway-matching 12 mph is possible with better gearing. We can't wait for the inevitable self-balancing scooter racing series.br /br /[Via a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Self_balancing_one_wheeled_electric_skateboard/"Instructables/a]pa href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/02/man-improves-adds-a-dose-of-trademark-infringement-to-single-wh/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emMan improves, adds a dose of trademark infringement to single-wheeled skateboard concept/em/a/ppFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/transportation/" rel="tag"Transportation/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/02/man-improves-adds-a-dose-of-trademark-infringement-to-single-wh/"Man improves, adds a dose of trademark infringement to single-wheeled skateboard concept/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:45:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://sites.google.com/site/onewheeledselfbalancing/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/02/man-improves-adds-a-dose-of-trademark-infringement-to-single-wh/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1416860/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/02/man-improves-adds-a-dose-of-trademark-infringement-to-single-wh/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a
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a href="http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/EkFppEyyApfojHvjYV.php"img hspace="4" vspace="14" border="0" align="right" alt="IXtreme 1.5 unlocks your non-Hitachi spinning Xbox 360" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/xbox-360-crack.jpg" //aWe love a good hacker vs. hardware battle, and while Microsoft has thus far done a reasonably good job of keeping miscreants from diddling with the details of the Xbox 360's firmware, applying a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/06/microsoft-thwarts-xbox-360-hacks-with-sneaky-update/"patches/a and a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/microsoft-banning-hacked-consoles-users-from-xbox-live/"dropping ban hammers/a on those who don't comply, as of this morning it seems to be losing the arms race. Team Jungle has released version 1.5 of its IXtreme firmware, allowing for (relatively) easy cracking and unlocking of Xbox 360 consoles containing LiteOn, BenQ, and Samsung DVD drives (i.e. the majority of them). That leaves only Hitachi owners out in the cold, but if that's you don't fret: your version is just a few weeks away. Happy homebrewing!br /br /[Thanks, Andrey M]pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gaming/" rel="tag"Gaming/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/ixtreme-1-5-unlocks-your-non-hitachi-spinning-xbox-360/"IXtreme 1.5 unlocks your non-Hitachi spinning Xbox 360/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:29:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/EkFppEyyApfojHvjYV.phpRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/ixtreme-1-5-unlocks-your-non-hitachi-spinning-xbox-360/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1413447/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/ixtreme-1-5-unlocks-your-non-hitachi-spinning-xbox-360/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a
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div align="center"a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=enamp;u=http://netbookitalia.it/compaq-mini-700-guida-al-disassemblaggio.htmlamp;sl=itamp;tl=en"img hspace="4" vspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/hp-mini-1000-dissected-20081229-600.jpg" alt="Compaq Mini 700 innards exposed by Italian fetishists" //abr //div
Ever wonder how netbooks pack all that laptopy goodness into such small packages? emLaptop Italia/em has your answer, tearing a Compaq Mini 700 (aka HP a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/mini1000"Mini 1000/a) into its individual components, supposedly for the sake of enabling you to repair the thing at home, but we think the real motivation is rather less instructional and more exhibitionistic. Regardless of emyour /emintentions, the site provides an extensive guide on how to take apart HP's tiny laptop, starting by pulling the battery and ending with a picture of where the a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/24/hp-mini-1000-now-supporting-3g/"3G modem/a would go if this particular model had one. Unlike some a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/teardown/"teardowns/a we've seen in the past, this clinical looking disassembly, if reversed, looks like it might actually put the thing back together again -- if you're into that sort of thing. br /br /[Thanks, faber]pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"Laptops/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/compaq-mini-700-innards-exposed-by-italian-fetishists/"Compaq Mini 700 innards exposed by Italian fetishists/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:02:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=enamp;u=http://netbookitalia.it/compaq-mini-700-guida-al-disassemblaggio.htmlamp;sl=itamp;tl=enRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/compaq-mini-700-innards-exposed-by-italian-fetishists/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1413400/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/compaq-mini-700-innards-exposed-by-italian-fetishists/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a
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div align="center"a href="http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1376983"img hspace="4" border="0" vspace="4" alt="AMD Phenom II processor bought, benchmarked, coveted" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgetmobile.com/media/2008/12/amd-phenom-ii-20081223.jpg" //abr //div
AMD, a company not exactly known for a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/amd-delays-phenom-9700-and-9900-processors-few-notice/"meeting its own deadlines/a, seemed to be trying to avoid news of painful delays for the Phenom II by simply a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/08/amd-phenom-ii-processor-gets-outed-might-even-be-released/"not letting anyone say/a when the thing would be available. Now the chip is apparently in the hands of one lucky gamer at the emHardOCP/em forums, Table21, who was kind enough to run it through its paces. The Phenom II 940 running at 3GHz scored a 4,091 on 3DMark06 and, once OC'd up to 3.85GHz, delivered a score of 5,086. It's rather too early to draw any conclusions from these numbers, and we don't know what he paid for the thing, but that performance does fall well behind Intel's Core i7 Extreme that was a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/intels-core-i7-purchased-overclocked-benchmarked/"similarly benchmarked/a last month, scoring 6,608 at the same clock speed. That's quite a gap -- but nothing a little a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/amd-overclocks-the-snot-out-of-phenom-ii-processors/"liquid nitrogen/a won't fix.br /br /[Via a href="http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=6573"PC Perspective/a]pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/desktops/" rel="tag"Desktops/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/amd-phenom-ii-processor-bought-benchmarked-coveted/"AMD Phenom II processor bought, benchmarked, coveted/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:40:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1376983Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/amd-phenom-ii-processor-bought-benchmarked-coveted/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1409788/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/amd-phenom-ii-processor-bought-benchmarked-coveted/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a
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Apple's claims that the a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/12/apple-the-iphone-is-a-gaming-console/"iPhone is a console/a might carry a bit more weight if the thing had, you know, some physical inputs. Touchscreens and tilt sensors are great, but without at least a couple of buttons and a D-pad it's kind of a hard sell to your average gamer. Inputs are exactly what the a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/icontrolpad"iControlPad/a case for the iPhone adds, and we've got confirmation that the thing is at long last heading to production. The pic above is the final prototype, set to be colored black upon release -- and we presume those gaping holes will be filled with something other than air, too. No word on an anticipated ship date or price, but -- great as it may be -- without Apple support we don't expect it'll to do much to help the iPhone's gaming cred anyhow.pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/" rel="tag"Cellphones/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gaming/" rel="tag"Gaming/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/peripherals/" rel="tag"Peripherals/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/"iControlPad gamepad heads to production, warms hearts/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:07:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.zodttd.com/boards/blog/zodttd/index.php?showentry=15Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1409758/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/23/icontrolpad-gamepad-heads-to-production-warms-hearts/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a
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It's been a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/25/canons-eos-5d-mark-ii-reportedly-hitting-stores-shelves-toda/"released/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/canon-eos-5d-mark-ii-unboxed/"unboxed/a, and adored by many. But, like a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/canon-planning-fix-for-eos-1d-mark-iii-autofocus-issue/"other/a eagerly anticipated bodies from Canon, the a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/5dmarkII"5D Mark II/a hasn't been entirely trouble-free for the early adopters. The company is at least stepping forward and confirming that the new model's two most commonly reported problems do indeed exist -- but isn't going so far as to fix them just yet. The first issue is called the "Black dot" phenomenon, where bright point light sources (like streetlights at a distance) result in a grouping of dark pixels immediately to their right, as seen above. The second issue is ugly vertical banding, apparently appearing only in sRAW1 mode. Canon has no advice on the first problem, but says you can avoid the other one simply by not shooting in sRAW1. Surely millions of photogs are wondering why they didn't think of that.br /br /[Via a href="http://www.dpreview.com/news/0812/08121902canon5ddots.asp"Digital Photography Review/a, image courtesy of a href="http://glubsch.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/eos-5d-mark-ii-the-black-dot-phenomenon/"Stephan Houml;rold/a]pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/digitalcameras/" rel="tag"Digital Cameras/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/canon-acknowledges-doesnt-fix-black-dot-and-band-problems-on-5/"Canon acknowledges, doesn't fix black dot and band problems on 5D Mark II/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:51:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.canon-europe.com/Support/Consumer_Products/products/cameras/Digital_SLR/EOS_5D_Mark_II.aspx?type=importantamp;faqtcmuri=tcm:13-618473Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/canon-acknowledges-doesnt-fix-black-dot-and-band-problems-on-5/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1406525/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/canon-acknowledges-doesnt-fix-black-dot-and-band-problems-on-5/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a
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It's been a busy couple of months for the mobile a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/powervr"PowerVR/a gurus at Imagination Technologies. First the company got a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/"picked/a to handle the polygon-shuffling duties in Sony's PSP2 (which a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/16/sony-to-release-new-handheld-sometime-in-the-future/"may/a or a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/sony-psp2-rumors-debunked-probably-not-for-the-last-time/"may not/a be actually happening), and has now received a $5 million cash infusion from Apple -- in exchange for a measly 3.6 percent of its soul. What does it all mean? As much as we'd love to fling out crazy speculation about an Apple / Sony hybrid iPSP or hardware support for a mobile a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/apple-bringing-its-operating-system-into-living-3d/"3D operating system/a, we're putting our money on the most sensible explanation: a next-gen iPhone with a href="javascript:void(0);/*1229693176364*/"even more/a emphasis on games. Place your bets now, folks.pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gaming/" rel="tag"Gaming/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/handhelds/" rel="tag"Handhelds/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/"Apple buys a little Imagination -- 3.6 percent to be exact/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:09:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10126243-37.html?part=rssamp;subj=newsamp;tag=2547-1040_3-0-10Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1406470/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/apple-buys-a-little-imagination-3-6-percent-to-be-exact/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a
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