RIM shows off new features for PlayBook 2.0 at DevCon originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Globe and Mail reveals early details on Apple iTV: Siri wants to hear you shout at the big game originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Glasses-free 3DTVs sporting 4K resolution don't exactly match up to the everyman's budget. Still, the tech needs to trickle down to the masses somehow and it appears Spatial View's keen to take up that three-dimensional, plebeian mantle. Available today, the outfit's inventively titled 3DeeScreen snaps onto 15.6-inch laptops of the Windows 7 variety to translate ordinary 2D images and video into autostereoscopic eye candy. And, unlike prevailing iterations that depend upon strict viewing zones, this ad hoc implementation can adjust to a viewer's position through the use of eye-tracking software, letting their zombified heads loll about while they tune in and drop out. Of course, if you choose to plunk down $130 for this visual pizzazz, you'll be jonesing for a library of compatible media. Good thing then the company's prepared to scratch that imaginary itch with a planned one-stop hub, dubbed 3DeeCentral, that'll offer up a curated mix of free and paid content. Need to know more? Then peruse the official presser below while you wonder how the other one percent lives.

Continue reading Glasses-free 3DeeScreen augments Windows 7 displays, lets Peter Gabriel get in your eyes

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With federal loans blocked, Fisker halts work on Project Nina, lays off 66 workers originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

The latest reformation of Symbian has started to appear for compatible handsets -- and it's arrived a few days earlier than planned. MyNokiaBlog has already began the upgrade process on its N8, through the Nokia Suite software. (Update: Nokia's now officially announced the release.) Belle will furnish your smartphone with NFC sharing, more homescreens, adjustable widgets and, yes, a pull-down notification bar. Handsets fortunate enough to be blessed by the update include the N8, E6, E7, X7, C7, C6-01 and Oro, arriving on the Nokia 500 in the next few weeks. A cheerful upgrade tour awaits after the break.

Continue reading Belle update arrives for compatible Nokia Symbian phones (video)

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RIM indulges in some 'myth busting' at BlackBerry DevCon Europe originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Sony PlayStation Vita charging accessories detailed in Japan originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

It looks like it. It seems plenty of you were enraptured by that hypnotic white Lumia 800 we paid a visit to yesterday, but in all the glossy fun, Nokia accidentally revealed the above press shot -- a white Lumia 900. The picture was soon lifted from Nokia's Conversations blog, but it remains on its Facebook page, flashing an exposed micro-USB port and front-facing camera that identifies this snow-white slab as the Lumia 900 kind. The press shot also flashes a view of that non-curved glass front; it certainly looks like our wishes are coming true. Now we just have to wait and see if this color option is ready for that plausible March release date.

Update: Dave Zatz was apparently offered a choice of white or black models when discussing his Lumia 900 pre-order options at a Microsoft store. Maybe we'll see this one from launch.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in.]

Nokia accidentally reveals white Lumia 900 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Continue reading RIM wrecks its own devices, so you don't have to (video)

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Google Fiber rollout now ready to begin in both Kansas Cities originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Elizabeth Banks isn't afraid to kiss and tell. The actress, who's set to star in two high-profile movies this spring -- The Hunger Games and What to Expect When You're Expecting -- dishes in the new issue of Women's Health about having to teach Melissa McCarthy's husband how to kiss for the camera.

In the upcoming romantic comedy, Banks and Ben Falcone (whom most audiences will remember as the U.S. Marshal that McCarthy flirts with in Bridesmaids) play one of the many highlighted expecting couples, but the comedic actor had no experience smooching someone other than his Oscar-nominated wife for the screen.

"I had a great co-star named Ben who had never done a kissing scene before, so I had to guide him very sillily through our kissing moment," Banks said. "He had a hard time touching me, and I literally had to take his hand and like put it in inappropriate places to get him used to the idea of touching me inappropriately."

Audiences will have to wait until May 18 to see if Banks, who turns 38 this week, and Falcone have believable chemistry, but first, fans will be lining up to watch her play the stylish Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games.

"Effie Trinket was a really fun role to get ready for because so much of it was about her hair and her clothes and the way she talks and walks," Banks revealed in a behind-the-scenes video. "She is a very theatrical person. I watched a lot of Auntie Mame to prepare for playing Effie."

Angelina Jolie has traded her blood vial and knife collection for a big family and a United Nations ambassadorship -- but Brad Pitt says she hasn't lost touch with her naughty side. On Monday's CBS This Morning, Pitt confirmed Jolie's recent assertion to 60 Minutes that she's "still a bad girl." (Skip to 4:18 on the video below to watch Pitt's response!)

"She's still a bad girl. Delightfully so," said Pitt, 48, with a big grin. "It's not for public consumption."

In November, Jolie, 36, told 60 Minutes that her bad-girl side is "in its place now."

"It belongs to Brad, it belongs to our adventures," said the actress-director.

Also during his interview with CBS This Morning, the Moneyball star talked about the effect that his large family has had on his career.

"Family's added everything to it. In a strange way, the work has gotten better because I worry less about it," Pitt told host Charlie Rose. "(Family) takes any pressure of self-absorption that we can have in our business, (and) it just evaporates."

Pitt explained that he and Jolie balance work and family by traveling as a family unit whenever one of them is on location. The six children, from 10-year-old Maddox to 3-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne, are "quite used to a bit of jet lag" and