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Friday, September 18, 2009
Gadgets

Check Out The Engadget Show

7:19AM Matt Buchanan | Congrats to Josh & the gang at Engadget for their first ever Engadget Show—a big deal and accomplishment not just for them, but for all blogs, really. (The outstanding title sequence alone makes it worth clicking play.) [Engadget] More »
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Phones

IPhone 3GS Review Matrix: What Everybody’s Saying

4:00PM Wilson Rothman | It’s time for another roundup of pundits espousing heartfelt admiration and none-too-bloody criticism of a pretty hot Apple product. How did they—I mean “it”—do this time around? Have a look-see… More »
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Music

Engadget’s Monster Cable Endorsement: ‘Monster Cable Sucks’

6:39AM Matt Buchanan | If you spotted this ad for Monster’s Dr. Dre Beats headphones—which strips an out-of-context blurb from a news post—you’d think Engadget gave Monster Cable an awkward-sounding endorsement. But the mutilated sentence was lifted and applied without Engadget’s permission. More »
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Software

iPhone App Aggregates Gizmodo and Engadget; Air Traffic Control Currently Watching For Flying Pigs

5:10AM John Mahoney | Gadget Junkie pulls in Gizmodo’s full-text RSS feed and presents it in a nice iPhone-friendly way. It also aggregates some other site called Engadget, which I guess is another pretty good gadget blog? Dunno. More »
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Press

Editor Ryan Block Leaving Engadget

4:46AM Brian Lam | Ryan Block, editor of Engadget, announced his resignation today. When I first heard the news, I was blindsided with a loss of competitive bearing followed by some strange sorrow. I suppose I’d explain it by saying Ryan is probably the best frienemy a guy could possibly ask for. More »
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Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Online

Mr. T-Mobile Warns Mr. Engadget Mobile Over the Colour Magenta

5:20AM Gizmodo US Edition | Mr. T says I’m crazy and he may be right. I’m a bird! I’m a plane! I’m a choo-choo train! But Mr.T-Mobile is the only crazy one: they requested Engadget Mobile to stop using their shade of magenta in his logo because it may lead to “confusion in the marketplace.” Their shade of magenta? I’ve known magenta since she was a kid! She was called Cynthia back then. Don’t worry Mr. Block, it’ll all pass. Just hold your breath, and remember your exercises! [Engadget via Gadget Lab] More »
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Sunday, December 30, 2007
Press

Crapgadget Column Actually Full of Cool Stuff

8:30AM Brian Lam | Engadget’s got a new column called Crapgadget meant to take the piss out of goofy electronics, but I think the examples they’ve picked are gadget-weirdness at its finest and deserve some defense. There’s something inherently entertaining about a USB Microphone disguised as a rose, a rechargeable speaker cube the size of a golf ball; they’re original, test new boundaries in gadget usage, and they’re the epitome of the softer side of usually sterile technology. Plus, like a building block, they take creativity to use. That Rose would be a great gag in a singing video podcast, and that speaker could end up dangling from an iPod Shuffle as a little boombox. Maybe I’m wrong, but you know, like double-oh-negative, I’m just Goony like that. [Rose Mic USB Cube via Engadget] More »
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Thursday, May 17, 2007
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My Take on Engadget’s 4 Billion Dollar iPhone Mistake

10:24AM Brian Lam | Gadget blogs like Gizmodo and Engadget are in the business of spreading news and rumours quickly. But in order to be taken seriously, blogs need to label all unconfirmed information as a speculation. At the very least, for very big news like the Apple iPhone delay rumour Engadget erroneously posted this morning. They quickly redacted the factual errors. But not before the stock tumbled 3%, as people sold off many Apple shares. Apple’s market cap, according to Valleywag, dipped $4 billion dollars. Business 2.0 Blogs are quoting commenters as asking for an SEC investigation. Ars reports that someone sold off millions of shares within minutes of the post. People lost a lot of money, because of something they read that was wrong. People have asked me if I’m gleeful. Hell no. Giz and Engaga are in the same boat. This sort of thing affects our rep, too. Sure, I could take a swipe at Engadget’s reliability. I could put my fingers in my ears and shout, Nya Nyaa Boo Boo and stick my tongue out at my competitors. But I won’t. Ryan, the real heart of Engadget’s daily operations, is a great guy and I respect his work. We’re both in the same situation of having to post news quickly, sometimes before confirmation. I knew that Apple would never spout this info internally without making it public first, but someone here could have easily made the same mistake if they weren’t paying attention or drunk, which sadly happens quite often here. (Travis and Chen!) Jokes aside, now is a good of a time as any to tell you guys of some rules we’ve been working around the last few months: As stated above, we’ll label unconfirmed information as rumour until we know it’s true, and update existing posts with new data, which can be found under our corrections tag. So let us know when we got it wrong. And going forward, we’ll be hiring even more traditionally trained journalists (not the boring, slow kind, but the kind that report). We will continue to speculate wildly on boob-shaped gadgets. More »
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