A surprising amount of news going on in the content provider market between NBC Universal partnering with DirecTV for digital programming distribution, CBS getting in bed with Comcast for the same, and Nick and Cartoon Network pairing off with Hasbro on the VuGo — everyone trying their hand, however poorly, at alternative methods of getting their content out there digitally. But Ed Colligan also took some time to weigh in on Palm's commitment to the PalmOS in future devices, some of which we're hoping might show up on Voce, the new Luxury MVNO just announced. Of course, there's also the grim news that the Revolution won't have HD support or play in the same price range as its competitors, but feel free to call in to comment (or shoot us a question) about this or anything else at 888-ENGADGET!

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01:27 Downloadable NBC Universal on your DirecTV Plus DVR
06:04 Comcast/CBS to follow suit in offering on demand content
14:01 Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network next up for TV downloads
16:21 Palm CEO Ed Colligan says they're sticking with the Palm OS
22:58 PalmSource spearheads LiPS Forum for Linux cellphone standards
28:16 Voce, the luxury class MVNO
31:52 Olympus announces portable DAP production halt
38:45 Reggie's latest Revolution spiel: low-cost and no HD
44:56 Listener voicemail
52:45 We've got a PPC-6700; what do you want to know?
53:30 Engadget Seattle reader meetup on December 8th & the week ahead

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A lot of cellphone news this week (so what else is new?) but don't worry, you won't have to hear us drone on too much about leaked info on the new Treos and Sprint Nextel cable company content partnerships; we've also got the skinny on Sony's new T9 camera with optical image stabilization, what's the latest heard on Intel Apples, MIT's dubiously helpful WiFi services, and, of course, more listener voicemail. (Have you called in yet? No? Well, listen in and leave a message!)

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00:43 Sprint Nextel partners with Comcast, TWC, Cox, etc.
07:03 Yahoo's first cellular phone coming to Cingular
10:15 Nokia's N71, N80, and N92 media phones
15:13 New Treo Details
26:53 Sony Cyber-shot T9
29:52 Nintendo Famicom Styled Gameboy Micro coming to US
30:53 UBS says January for Intel-Mac Minis
33:27 Garmin's new GPS devices
37:37 MIT WiFi network goes Big Brother
39:05 Listener voicemail
46:08 Engadget Halloween Costume Contest!
49:33 Engadget's Folding @ Home Team

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Podcast fifty, wow. Can you believe we've produced that many of these things? It's been a quite a ride and a lot of fun, believe us, but we ain't planning on stopping any time soon. The program's grown and changed so much since our first episode, but instead of getting too gushy on you we're just gonna hit the news hard like we do every week. We're not without treats, however: special guest Ross Rubin sits in to give an ineffably outstanding reading of the latest edition of his Switched On column, "The Maven," also followed by some Engadget phone-ins, and a wee look into the past year of the Podcast. But we never could have hit fifty without the ceaseless support of our listenership; thanks so much, everybody, and here's to another fifty episodes!

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J+J+J - Portable Ultra Sound

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01:27 Sprint Power Vision
14:52 Helio: the MVNO formerly known as SK-Earthlink
20:57 The Motorola SLVR L7 — with iTunes
23:50 Samsung to launch online music download service
31:25 Canon's new Powershot SD430 Wireless
39:18 Ross Rubin reads "The Maven"
50:54 Ask Engadget: Podcast Edition
57:49 Team Engadget joins Folding@home
59:44 Engadget Halloween Costume Contest!
61:28 An Engadget Podcast Retrospective

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A lot of high def news going down this week, what with Apple releasing their new high def PowerBooks (the ones that are sure to be among the last we'll see before they go Intel), the Power Mac G5 Quad (which has support for up to 4 hi def Cinema Displays), Netflix postponing their online movie download service, and, of course, the latest studio to have a format-affair on their one and only: Warner Bros. But we've also got the details on Nokia's latest lineup, the L'Amour series, as well as our experiences at the Intel Innovation Destination event in New York. Podcast 49 is go!

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J+J+J - Jobs with Headphones

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01:41 Apple @ PhotoPlus Expo 2005
04:39 The new higher-res 15 and 17-inch PowerBooks
06:47 The Power Mac G5 Quad
09:40 Is this the T-Mobile Sidekick III / Hiptop 3?
13:44 Gizmondo launches in North America
21:57 Nokia's L'Amour series
25:06 Warner Bros. joins Blu-ray Disc Association Board of Directors
30:08 Netflix "indefinitely postpones" online movie download service
36:26 Hands-on with Intel's Ruby handheld PC
42:06 The Engadget Halloween Costume Contest

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We covered some serious ground on Apple's product announcements last week, as well as at DigitalLife on Friday. There wasn't a whole ton going down, but some interesting business with T-Mobile and their new Sidekick IIs, a brief run-in with Apple VP Greg Joswiak, and a little bit of hands-on with the Zen Vision and Akimbo's new Media Center software. Of course the big news, however, was Sony Ericsson's new decked out Walkman phone, the W900, which perhaps we go into a little too much detail on. But that's why you listen in, right?

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J+J+J - High School? (feat. MAGAS)

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41:30, 19 MB, MP3

Program
01:38 Engadget hits up DigitalLife
02:00 T-Mobile's panel at DigitalLife
08:17 TiVo's VCR funeral
11:10 Press luncheon featuring Apple VP Greg Joswiak
12:06 Hands-on with Creative's Zen Vision
13:48 Akimbo for Media Center debuts
17:22 Sony Ericcson's W900
23:02 Nokia's E-series business phones
28:22 Palm releases the Z22 and TX handhelds
32:45 The Engadget interview with David Steel

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Apple addicts, Mac nuts, iPod fans—gather ye round and tune in! We've got a special mini-Podcast for you this week with nothing but our take on the new iPod (with video), iTunes 6.0 (with video), and the new iMac G5 (with video Front Row and the Apple Remote). Trust us, there's a lot more going on here than just a few new products. Not an Apple fan? Well, that's cool, we try to remain platform-agnostic ourselves, but while there's still a lot of Podcasty goodness in here, be forewarned if you can't stand any more talk of MP3 players not Apple made, then this may not be the Podcast for you.

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J+J+J - Music with Headphones (Schmoof Remix)

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27:00, 12.3 MB, MP3

Program
00:36 Apple's big event
02:49 The iPod with video
13:46 The new iMac G5
14:09 Front Row
20:21 Rumors that didn't come true

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Well, wouldn't you know it—we got our hands on a real life Xbox 360, and is there ever a lot to talk about between the killer graphics, fluid game play, and Microsoft's well-laid plans to take over the gaming world this fall. But we're also well worked up over Apple's big announcement this week (what ever could it be?), and we've only got about fifteen theories as to what could be going down. Last, but certainly not least, we've got a little something on the results of the DARPA Grand Challenge this weekend—besides being impressed with the performance of all the teams involved, we were perhaps most impressed that we didn't even have occasion to laugh at even a little bit o' wacky robot hijinks this year. Ah well, there's always DGC06 for us—but for you there's Podcast 47, check check it!

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00:36 Our test-run with the Xbox 360
13:18 Oh, one more thing… another Apple event on the 12th
23:02 Samsung being investigated by Korean FTC for unfair trading practices?
26:26 Samsung's SGH-E910 Bang & Olufsen Serene "fashionphone"
28:34 Sony Ericsson P990
32:05 DirecTV introducing new DVR
36:04 The HD-DVD versus Blu-Ray saga continues
41:42 DARPA Grand Challenge

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Ever wonder what it's like meeting Shigeru Miyamoto? Well, Peter got the rare privilege, which we discuss in today's Podcast, as well as Google's latest scheming to take over San Francisco's WiFi airwaves, Sony's new touchscreen digital camera and Memory Stick format, as well as Negroponte's $100 laptop for developing nations. It's a little shorter than usual, sure, but we're giving it to you in OGG Vorbis this time as a little something extra, so you can tune in however you like to Engadget Podcast 46!

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J+J+J - Spills that Kill (The Song)

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34:03, 15.5 MB, MP3

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01:58 Engadget & Joystiq interview Miyamoto
08:02 Google wants to build San Francisco WiFi Network
12:35 EchoStar's PocketDISK rebadged Archos devices
16:55 Sony Cybershot DSC-N1 (w/ touch screen)
18:03 Memory Stick Micro M2, yet another memory format
20:48 OQO intros the Model 01+
25:20 Negroponte details specs on $100 laptop
30:29 Engadget Simplified Chinese

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You kind of have to be down with cellphones if you're a regular podcast listener, but you're gonna have to be a true mobile afficionado to be feeling our special CTIA/cellphone-centric mini podcast. That's right, 30 minutes of us yammering on about our impressions playing with the PPC-6700, i300, V3x, D307, and other devices we saw in San Francisco for the week. Not feeling all the cellphone news? Fret not, podcast 45 comin' atcha next Tuesday like normal.

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Randall Bennett

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J+J+J - Jobs That Require Headphones (Schmoof Remix)

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29:40, 13.5MB, MP3

Program
01:15 The Treo 700w
02:47 Peeping Sprint PPC-6700 over the course of three days
08:19 We mess with the V3x
12:16 Samsung's i300
15:53 Samsung's SGH-D307 flip n' fold
19:36 ESPN's Sanyo MVP
22:51 Nokia's 9300 coming to Cingular
24:33 LG's F7200 with Push-To-Talk
26:23 Thanks for the times, San Francisco! The reader meetup went great.

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The Engadget Podcast returns after a two-week hiatus! Why, you may ask? Well, we won't trouble you here and now with the dirty business, but we do get into the shameful details during this week's program before we catch ourselves up with all the Treo news that's been floating around. But Palm's not the only game in town right now, what with Nintendo and their new Revolution controller, Sony with their ongoing battle with Toshiba for the next-generation optical disc standard, and a recap of our visit to the Canon Expo 2005 in New York. We even have a little Samsung hard drive-cellphone action to bookend our San Franciscan/CTIA Podcast this week. We're back!

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J+J+J - Highschool? You Mean the Inverted Caste System? (Feat. Magas)

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Program
03:07 Palm and Verizon to unveil Treo 700w
10:30 Palm sued over Treos
12:33 The Nintendo Revolution controller
18:09 Sony Qualia, RIP: 2004 - 2005
22:23 Blu-ray vs HD DVD: State of the Union Division
29:23 Engadget @ Canon Expo 2005
33:05 Samsung SPH-V7900
37:17 SF Engadget reader meetup on September 28th

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It's a little late for being a day early, but it's always a bit of an interesting week when Apple launches a new round of products. Between their new nano and the much belated release of the Motorola ROKR E1 iTunes phone, we weren't exactly want for new portable music offerings—but Sony went ahead and topped us off anyway with their new lineup of 1.8-inch and 1-inch drive based Walkman audio players (which also signaled the death of SonicStage). Not to be outdone by the audio space, however, our old friend PalmSource rocked the boat a bit by finally managing to get themselves bought by, well, freaking someone (a company called Access, actually). Just another week in the life of Engadget.

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J+J+J - Insomnia

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47:26, 21.7 MB, MP3

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00:47 The iPod nano
08:17 The Motorola ROKR E1 Apple iTunes phone
19:17 Sony throws down a new Walkman
21:31 The latest chapter in Sony's sea change—SonicStage dies
22:57 PalmSource getting bought by Access
33:24 Gateway CX200, the first widescreen Tablet PC
36:08 Samsung planning dual-format HD-DVD/Blu-ray disc player
45:20 SF reader meetup (probably) on September 28th & t-shirt finalists coming (promise!)

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It's been a rough week for our fellow Americans down in the Gulf Coast, but we're doing what we can over here at Engadget to alleviate the suffering—including a $1,000 donation to hurricane relief funds, not including what we're pulling together with Weblogs, Inc. But the gadget news presses on, and so we must discuss the finer points of Sony's big laptop launches (and their first forays into using SD in their machines' media readers), Locationfree TV (without the TV), and the skinny on Nikon's new WiFi-enabled cameras. Oh, and a little on what it's like to fool around with the HTC Universal—see, at Engadget we kiss and tell.

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00:20 A moment for Hurricane Katrina victims
03:05 ROKR or new iPod Tomorrow?
09:04 Sony's new Locationfree TV drops the location free TV
11:48 Sony's BX & T-Series
16:54 Samsung Sense X1 "thumb width" notebook
20:18 Nikon Coolpix P1 and P2 WiFi-enabled digicams
22:51 Hands-on with the HTC Universal
31:03 T-shirt contest winners soon!

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It was a sad week in Engadget when one of our favorite companies, Rio, announced their defeat in the ultra-competitive portable audio market, but we couldn't help but get a chuckle out of Creative's worm troubles with the Zen Neeon, or Samsung's 19-inch monster of a laptop, the M70. The home entertainment world had a lot going on too, between Intel's VIIV spec, TiVo's first quarter in the black, and talks between the HD-DVD and Blu-ray camps dead once again (for good, for reals this time). But we're gonna have to say the biggest news this week may just have been our new enhanced Podcast program in AAC—check it out if you subscribe to us in iTunes, or download it from the link below!

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00:30 R.I.P. Rio
06:10 Worm burrows into Zen Neeon
09:41 ROKR announcement 9/7 ?
12:40 Verizon EV-DO price drops (with strings attached)
16:57 Intel cheat sheet for 2005-2006  
24:10 Tivo breaks even for the quarter
30:35 The Samsung 19-inch laptop
34:30 Toshiba and Sony nix next-gen DVD talks

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We've got lots of gaming news to discuss this week between Nintendo and Microsoft naming their prices on the Game Boy Micro and Xbox 360, and Sony's absentee PSP 2.0 update, but there's plenty of other material to work with too. Take Sony's Walkman Bean, for instance, which leaves us a bit perplexed, while Canon's camera inundation and Sony Ericsson's new P-series  phone leave us reeling. Just another week in the life of the Engadget crew.

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40:58, 18.7MB, MP3

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00:35 Xbox 360 prices / packages announced
05:55 Game Boy Micro also priced
09:00 PSP's MIA 2.0 firmware
12:50 The Sony Walkman… Bean?
14:50 Canon's gaggle of new cameras
20:30 Sony Ericcson's Hermione/P1000
25:30 4GB iPod Shuffles and Flash-based minis?
31:06 iBook stampede
33:38 Engadget takes it back to 1985
36:21 Vote for your fav Iced-out entry, send in your T-shirts designs!

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It's was a bit of a slow news week, but some interesting things were indeed going down that you just know we've got to drop our two cents in on, such as TiVo's finally formally announced download service, our boy Om's predictions on the "GoogleNet" nationwide WiFi network, what's been going on with getting OS X running on your Intel box, and a little having to do with Microsoft clamping down on Xbox 360 peripherals. Also, we'd like to extend a thanks to all our people who entered the Iced-out Gadget Contest—we got some good ones, so keep your eyes peeled—and for those who didn't get their entry in, try your hand at our Engadget T-Shirt Design Contest! It is summer, afterall, but please, just because we wear them while recording the show doesn't mean we want designs for wifebeaters.

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35:17, 16.1MB, MP3

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00:23 Tivo confirms download service
05:40 Google Wi-Fi service in the works?
13:14 Samsung Blade (SCH-V740) for Sprint
17:12 XM & Dell's future player?
19:54 Latest in OS X on Intel
23:08 iPod patent woes for Apple
25:57 Microsoft's locked Xbox 360 peripherals
30:25 Iced-out Gadget contest is over, but the T-Shirt Contest has begun!

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