Students Cite YouTube, Google, Wikipedia the Most [INFOGRAPHIC]

When doing homework, many students turn to the same websites as they do when they’re surfing the web under other circumstances.
Four of the top…

Listen to the Engadget Mobile Podcast, live at 11:30pm ET!

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Mobile NFC payments hitting 11,500 European post offices

Here in the US, when there’s a story about the Postal Service it’s pretty much always negative these days. But in Europe, it’s a very different situation. The Post Office service across the pond has decided to roll out near field communication (NFC) technology to around 11,500 branches,

CompuLab to serve fanless AMD PC-3′s stuffed with minted penguin

With the Ubuntu variant Mint roaming free as one of the more attractive Linux breeds, why not lock it up in its own mini-case? That’ll happen soon thanks to mintBox, a joint venture with CompuLab, which will put the OS in two of its fanless PC-3′s — the T40N and T56N — priced at $476 and $518, respectively.

Windows 8 Release Preview Shows Improved Media Apps, Same Bipolar Interface

Microsoft may be listening to its customers, though the final preview edition of Windows 8 before the product ships this fall indicates that it turned its customers’ volume knob down to about two.

Today’s release, with its improvements to Start screen customizability, shows

Prometheus Movie Review and Red Carpet Coverage

Alien was all about dark, ominous spaces and a sense of intense claustrophobia and mounting tension – in part due to Ridley Scott’s withholding of the final Xenomorph in all its glory as the film reached its climax (along with hiding its comparably low-tech costume). Prometheus is the CGI-overspilling,

Now At 17M+ Users, Rebtel Brings Cheap VoIP Calls, Texts To The iPad

With Skype under Microsoft ownership, Rebtel now claims to be the largest independent mobile VoIP provider, with 17 million users in over 200 countries accessing its service over WiFi and 3G on iPhone, Android, and PCs. Rebtel has added two million users since February, and is seeing an average of 650K

Google springs for .lol, .youtube domains, we wonder if it’s going TLD .crazy

Google just can’t wait until ICANN reveals custom domain name bids in mid-June to say what it’s trying to buy — and it’s clear that Mountain View went on a shopping spree. Some of the top-level domains in the land grab are ones you’d expect safeguarding Google’s prized possessions, such as .google,

Top Swimmer to Quit Twitter During Olympics, Blames Trolls

Two-time gold medalist swimmer Rebecca Adlington will take a Twitter timeout during this summer’s Olympics in London.
Why? Because of tro…

Wi-Fi Alliance announces Miracast wireless display certification program

The ability to transmit audio-visual content over WiFi is poised to launch a bit of a cable-free revolution in the living room, but before that happens, the Wi-Fi Alliance hopes that manufacturers will rally behind its standard set of technologies known as Miracast — in the process, burying WiDi and