If you’ve been following the trends, Gartner’s mobile phone market figures for the first quarter of 2013 won’t surprise. The research firm estimates that Android was on 74.4 percent of all smartphones sold in the period, with Samsung the key benef…
The Daily Roundup for 05.13.2013
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all ha…
Webkit’s Chromium-specific code to be removed in effort to streamline
Now that Chromium has pledged its allegiance to Google’s new Blink rendering engine, Webkit is set to have the now-unnecessary Chrome-specific code stripped from it. Apple Webkit developer Geoffrey Garen kicked off a conversation on the project’s mai…
Is Apple Building Its Own Street View?
An Apple patent filing indicates that the Cupertino tech giant is building a Street View product of its own
Posted to the US Patent and Trademark Office website on Thursday, Apple’s filing describes a “3D Position Tracking for Panoramic Imagery Navigation” — in other words, a way to view a lifelike map of the world around you via smartphone or tablet
Sounds familiar, no? Google Maps’ popular Street View option has been around since 2007
But Apple’s patent filing says its product will do things the Google version can’t. Current street-level imaging tech requires users to navigate though, most commonly, their touchscreen or trackpad. This involves jumping from intersection to intersection before navigating further Read more…
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The Daily Roundup for 04.05.2013
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpi…
