The upcoming triple.fi earbuds from Ultimate Ears promise to give the same performance as their top-of-the-line UE-10 Pros, but don’t require custom ear canal fitting. They use a similar triple-driver design, but don’t slip out of your ear when listening and don’t cost $900.

No official pricing yet on these, but more info is coming soon. – Jason Chen

Ultimate Ears triple.fi 10 Earphones [Ultimate Ears]

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Originally from Gizmodo on September 28, 2006, 1:45am

Owners of the LG Chocolate should go to Verizon stores and ask for firmware version V04 for your phone to enable speakerphone functionality.

Not all Verizon stores have this update now, and not all of them will agree to update your phone. If that’s the case, and you’re feeling brave, you can try and update it yourself. Keep in mind Verizon probably considers that a breach of warranty. – Jason Chen

Chocolate Update Turns Speakerphone On (Updated) [PCS Intel]

Firmware [Howard Forums]

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Originally from Gizmodo on September 28, 2006, 3:15am

Asustek takes a cue from cellphones, showing off this concept laptop with a secondary display on the outside, letting you give get a quick peek at your e-mail, check your schedule or see what’s playing on the MP3 player without having to open it up. Just think of it: now you can check your e-mail on your laptop while it rides the conveyor belt through those impregnable security scanners that are protecting us from the terrorists.

Asus tech showed the notebook at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, and that they’re not the only ones—Acer and Mitac Technologies are also reportedly jumping on the secondary display notebook bandwagon. If the big boys take notice, this could become a standard feature in the near future. – Charlie White
Asustek presents notebook with “second display” design [DigiTimes]

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Originally from Gizmodo on September 28, 2006, 3:16pm

The DEMO conference is wrapping up here in San Diego and unlike when it began 16 years ago the conference wasn’t dominated by mobile launches. None the less, there were some very interesting mobile services here like ScanR and Realeyes3D image scanning by mobile photo, Flurry’s simple email and RSS on Java phones and Grand Central (which I’ve written about at length).

3Jam and Pinger both launched multiperson SMS services at DEMO. Probably first popularized by Dodgeball, multiperson SMS is a feature (or a company - your call!) that quite a few people are coming out with all at once lately. The following are some short descriptions of eight companies offering multiperson SMS and a table displaying which services offer particular features.

The List

• Jyngle is a web based service that has voice support, just launched and got a review over on CrunchGear today.
• 3Jam is funded, relatively straight forward and launched here at DEMO.
• Pinger lets users quickly respond to messages by voice and received $3 million from Kleiner Perkins in 2005.
• Swarmteams does a whole lot of things, though we weren’t able to get it to work well in testing for our original review. You might have better luck, and if so then this Irish service could well be worth using.
• Loopt is a location aware service funded by YCombinator and Sequoia. We reviewed it at launch.
• Dodgeball is old school and was acquired by Google in 2005.
• Twitter is for groups of friends who want varying levels of instant, automatic updates on each others’ activities. It’s a product of podcasting company Odeo.
• Moblabber is a mobile social network that users can receive topical messages from automatically.

There are undoubtedly more companies that offer multi-person SMS, or at least there will be by the time I click publish on this post - but I hope that comparing these seven company’s by feature set will help flesh out a vision of the landscape and where we stand today.

The Features

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Tags: Techcrunch, Web2.0, mobile, SMS, collaboration, smartmobs

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Originally by Marshall Kirkpatrick from TechCrunch on September 28, 2006, 2:39am

The new version of AOL Pictures came out of beta today and it’s thoroughly underwhelming. The new features are basically all the social things that are standard from a Web 2.0 perspective - Public galleries, Ajax, tags, comments and subscriptions - but none of them are done particularly well. They are getting shown up badly by Yahoo!, Webshots and Photobucket.

The new AOL Pictures offers a picture editor but only for Windows, the Ajax response time feels slow, tags are supported but not in a meaningful way (it’s really still all about folders), photo galleries can be named but only and the site is basically no fun to use. The service probably should have stayed in beta for awhile. Did I mention that it’s not very pretty to look at?

The new Yahoo! Photos came out last month and is better, but Flickr is much better still. If you’re going to follow Flickr’s lead, as everyone appears to be doing - at least do it well. Or acquire someone who’s doing something really interesting. Online video editing is the most obvious next direction for video sharing and Yahoo! just bought Jumpcut this morning. There are any number of interesting little photo sharing sites that are at least doing a better job at the state of the art than AOL Pictures. Two off the top of my head are Photoblog.com and BubbleShare (who are doing some very cool stuff). Zooomr is apparently on the market as well.

AOL Video is far more interesting than this, with its mix of commercial and user generated content, long list of movie studio partners and Viiv deal.

Perhaps many AOL customers don’t want anything fancy, but this looks like a half hearted effort to catch up to competitors that I’m guessing won’t be well received.

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Tags: Techcrunch, Web2.0, AOL, photos, sharing, media, tagging

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by Marshall Kirkpatrick


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Originally by Marshall Kirkpatrick from TechCrunch on September 28, 2006, 12:57am

Text Link Ads (an advertising network that allows websites to include simple text advertisements on their site) launched a new product this morning called Feedvertising. Feedvertising allows bloggers and other site owners to include advertisements or other messages in their RSS feeds.

We like Feedvertising (note disclosure at end, however) because it’s simple, free, and gives the publisher the ability to sell their own ads directly, include TLA sold ads, or simply put in any message and link that the publisher wishes to include.

We’ve integrated Feedvertising into the main TechCrunch RSS Feed via a Wordpress plugin (plugins for other blogging platforms is coming soon). We’ve elected not to include advertising, instead adding a simple text item at the end of feed content that promotes other Crunch Network sites.

For more information on how the product works, see the video tutorial they’ve created here. I believe a lot of bloggers will want to use this.

Disclosure: TLA has been a longtime TechCrunch Sponsor.

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Tags: rss, advertising, techcrunch, web2.0, web_2.0

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by Michael Arrington


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Originally by Michael Arrington from TechCrunch on September 27, 2006, 7:06pm