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50GB free Dropbox service confirmed for Samsung Galaxy Note II and Galaxy Camera Aug 31st 2012, 03:20 Good news, storage junkies: Dropbox and Samsung have renewed their vows with a deal that'll provide 50GB of free storage for two years to owners of the new Galaxy Note II and Galaxy Camera. As you'd expect, this means the Dropbox app will be pre-installed, and it also ensures that users will have easier access to their media files. Before you get too excited, however, there's no guarantee that this well-intentioned promotion will pass muster with US carriers -- we've certainly seen a few hopes dashed in the past. Continue reading 50GB free Dropbox service confirmed for Samsung Galaxy Note II and Galaxy Camera Filed under: Cellphones, Cameras, Software, Mobile 50GB free Dropbox service confirmed for Samsung Galaxy Note II and Galaxy Camera originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Aug 2012 23:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments DirecTV's NFL Sunday Ticket returns to PS3 in time for the upcoming football season Aug 31st 2012, 02:52 With this year's National Football League season almost ready to kick off (not taking pre-season games into consideration, of course), DirecTV's properly preparing itself on all entertainment cylinders. The satellite provider announced earlier today that the well-known Sunday Ticket package will be returning to the PlayStation 3 on September 4th via a PS Store update, allowing current subscribers to stream full-HD games directly to Sony's renowned console. As for those without any current attachments to DirecTV, however, there is an option out there -- one which costs a familiar $300 per NFL season. We've still got a few days until the madness gets started, which should be plenty of time to get approval from your better half to snag the action-packed ticket. Filed under: Gaming, Home Entertainment, HD DirecTV's NFL Sunday Ticket returns to PS3 in time for the upcoming football season originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |  PlayStation Blog  | Email this | Comments Samsung updates S Pen SDK to spread love for Galaxy Note II features Aug 31st 2012, 02:29 Owners of the original Galaxy Note won't have to look on the Galaxy Note II with complete envy. Samsung has updated the S Pen SDK to 2.2, letting developers' apps respond to a hovering stylus with Note II-style tricks. More brushes, effects, fills and fonts also join the mix, although not every new tweak is finding its way back to the first-run Note: pulling out the S Pen won't trigger app features without a Note II or Galaxy Note 10.1 involved. Even so, what's in the new SDK could be the key to a more sophisticated (and very hands-off) S Pen ecosystem. You'll find the tools to make it happen at the source link. Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Software Samsung updates S Pen SDK to spread love for Galaxy Note II features originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Android Police  |  Samsung  | Email this | Comments Plex launches new Web Client and PlexPass subscription, updates Media Server Aug 31st 2012, 02:13 Plex fans among us just got treated to a smorgasbord -- albeit one that isn't completely free. The media front-end developer hopes to boost its bottom line through PlexPass, a subscription service that amounts to a paid beta program. Shell out $4 per month and you'll get early access to in-development features, including a slate of premium-only extras during their incubation phase. One of the more ordinary (if important) features is going live today: a revamped Web Client not only rivals the native OS X app for speed but offers full media playback on top of the usual queue management. Whether you subscribe or not, you'll want to get an updated Media Server app that supports both PlexPass and the new client along with improving the server's behavior in several areas, such as lowering its memory use and supporting RTMP transcoding. We hope Plex keeps enough components on the free side of the fence as time goes on. For now, at least, we'll see the paid model as a way for loyalists to reward a company that has been powering their home theater PCs for years. Filed under: Home Entertainment, Internet, Software, HD Plex launches new Web Client and PlexPass subscription, updates Media Server originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |  Plex (1), (2), (3)  | Email this | Comments Amazon reportedly licenses Nokia mapping technologies for Kindle Fire successor Aug 31st 2012, 01:49 It looks like Nokia's strategy to become the go-to company for location-based services is gaining traction, as anonymous sources of Reuters suggest that Amazon will tap the Finnish company to provide mapping data for its upcoming tablet. The report contends that location-aware features will be core to Amazon's Kindle Fire successor, which is widely expected to debut on September 6th. If true, the move represents a continuation of Amazon's desire to create an ecosystem that's far removed from Google own content offerings. On the plus side, it brings the possibility that some excellent offline navigation capabilities may be in the pipeline. Whatever the case may be, we're sure to know the truth very shortly. Filed under: GPS, Tablets, Software Amazon reportedly licenses Nokia mapping technologies for Kindle Fire successor originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |  Reuters  | Email this | Comments

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