Tag archive: engadget

A group of bloggers has filed a class action lawsuit against the Huffington Post, its founder Arianna Huffington and its new parent company AOL, reports Fortune. The lawsuit's lead plaintiff is union organizer and journalist Jonathan Tasisi, who wrote for the Huffington Post from December 2005 until three days after AOL purchased the left-leaning news and blog site for $315 million, on February 6 of this year. Filing of the suit follows… Read More

After weeks of senior Engadget staffers fluttering away like the mature butterflies they are, it looks like AOL’s migrating monarchs have found a new home at SB Nation. The Washington-D.C.-based umbrella for over 300 individual sports blogs will provide a roof for the Engadget defectors to start a new tech blog, led by former Engadget Editor-in-Chief Josh Topolsky. An interesting wrinkle in AOL’s ongoing plans for media domination? Sure, but SB… Read More

A team of eight former Engadget top editors, including once-managing editor Nilay Patel and ex-editor-in-chief Joshua Topolsky, have moved to sports blog network SB Nation to launch a new technology site. The move, first reported by The New York Times this weekend, has been confirmed by Topolsky on his blog. The editorial team's decision to leave Engadget stems from frustrations with the popular tech site's parent company AOL, which… Read More

Mere days after AOL laid off 900 workers in a restructuring of the company's staff, two top editors of highly popular AOL-owned technology website Engadget have resigned from the publication. The editors include managing editor Nilay Patel and editor-in-chief Josh Topolsky (pictured above). News of their departures was first revealed in a report by All Things Digital. Both Patel and Topolsky have now confirmed their resignations in blog… Read More

After the Huffington Post acquisition, it seemed like a matter of time until AOL had to start cutting its fat. First to go is former content head David Eun, who told his staff that his role with AOL has, more or less, become obsolete with the arrival of new editor in chief Arianna Huffington. Eun was responsible for the AOL homepage (which recently underwent reconstruction) and content branding and sites, of which there are many. In a letter to… Read More

It should be surprise no one that Apple’s Back to the Mac event will have its share of new product announcements, namely its new OS (largely rumored to be named Lion) and the latest version of the MacBook Air. Steve Jobs has been drawing attention to his company, what with a contentious Twitter war with Android developers and some bold statements about Apple’s market dominance during a conference call this week. Still, nothing has built suspense… Read More

Spoof e-mails seldom cause more than a ripple in the ocean of Internet news, spreading through forums and blogs, and generally being regarded with skepticism. Unless, of course, Engadget accidentally picks one up. Then you have a tsunami. That’s precisely what happened Wednesday when Engadget falsely reported that Apple was delaying two of its most anticipated products, Leopard OS X and the iPhone, based on a fake e-mail that appeared… Read More

“On Thursday of last week Molly Wood, senior editor of CNET complained about the "Cold War" practice of vendors who hold traditionalpublications under NDAs while blog sites like Engadget are able to get the news out more quickly.   Jason Calacanis, the head of Weblog and Engadget, fired off a heated response using words like "borderline slanderous" and was clearly so upset that he is "starting an investigation" into… Read More

Although Microsoft will not be officially announcing their new game console until E3 along with Sony and Nintendo, someone at the company has let the new name slip out into the press. From what we can tell Engadget has the first scoop too. The name “Xbox 360″ doesn't sound half bad and probably has some sort of symbolic meaning, but until we know more this is all speculation. You can thank Engadget for breaking the story… Read More

We love the way this PDA looks, although we could do away with the external antennae. Engadget says the new Treo 650 is supposed to have a 312MHz processor, 32MB of RAM (which is low in our opinion) and Bluetooth capabilities. You can catch a picture below Read more at Engadget

Engadget is reporting today that according to a “well-placed inside source” Yahoo! will be branching out into the consumer electronics marketplace. The site has product images and descriptions of a DVD player, two LCD televisions, and a home theater in a box system. The Yahoo-branded products appear to be manufactured by Diamond Electronics and according to the article, will be announced within the next two weeks.… Read More

Quote from Engadget: “Somehow this has slipped totally underneath the radar: Sharp has a 20GB MP3 player out. We don't know much about the HRGB201H, other than that it uses USB 2.0 to connect to a PC, has a decently-sized LCD screen, a design that doesn't exactly blow us away, and is being sold on a French website for the grossly overpriced amount of nearly $500.” Read the full story here (including… Read More