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HTC One X announced for April release with quad-core Tegra 3, 4.7-inch HD display, and Android 4.0 — Shockingly, the rumors were all true. HTC has today confirmed the existence of a 4.7-inch, quad-core superphone, which it is dubbing the One X and using as the hero device of its new One smartphone family.
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Engadget, Examiner, TechCrunch, Computerworld, LAPTOP Magazine, CNET, Engadget, IntoMobile, Engadget, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, BGR, Mashable!, Android Phone Fans, GigaOM, Pulse2 Technology …, Electronista, The Verge, AllThingsD and MobileSyrup.com. Tweets: @inafried
| Jessica Dolcourt / CNET: |
Sadly, AT&T's HTC One X won't be quad-core (and here's why) — While the rest of the world will get HTC's One X superphone with a quad-core Tegra 3 processor, the cost of LTE for AT&T's version is a dual-core processor. BARCELONA, Spain—HTC's newest flagship device, the HTC One X …
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Gotta Be Mobile, Electronista and LAPTOP Magazine
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Technically Personal!, Engadget and Pocket-lint
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| Farhad Manjoo / PandoDaily: |
Steve Jobs was right: Dropbox is a feature, not a product — I've always been a big fan and committed user of Dropbox. Over the last couple years the handy file-sync app has gotten me out of many scrapes—when I need to access six-month-old interview notes when I'm out of town, it's always a thrill to find them in my Dropbox.
Tweets: @davewiner
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Sony Aims to Remake Name for Itself in Phones — Sony on Sunday tried to make the case that it yet has a place in the crowded market for Android phones. — The event is the first major product introduction for Sony since it took full control of the cell phone business that it had run jointly with Sweden's Ericsson.
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| Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
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| Michael Rose / TUAW: |
Best Buy offers $50 discount on iPad 2 models — Reader Alexander Wright dropped us a line this afternoon to point out that Best Buy is now selling all variants of the iPad 2 for $50 off the usual list price. Given that the Apple-authorized big box electronics retailer usually sticks to the regular pricing, this is a bit atypical.
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Apple Prepares To Pull Evi From App Store. Did It Slap-Down Siri? — Last month we reported on the launch of Evi, a new iPhone (iTunes link) and Android app (link) which was very Siri-like in its capabilities. Maybe it was too good at acting like Siri? — Yes, Evi can't do Siri's trick … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple working on enhanced A5 chip (A5X) AND completely new chip (A6) — Apple's new iPad processor will likely offer improved gaming performance — Typically when an Apple product launch approaches, many industry watchers offer conflicting views on what new features the new product sports.| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
LG in talks with Google for Nexus device — LG wants to be on the ground floor for one of the next iterations of Android. An LG executive noted that there were still no firm commitments yet. — LG and Android are as close as ever. — BARCELONA, Spain—LG is jockeying … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
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AllThingsD, VentureBeat, IntoMobile, The Verge, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, The Verge, BGR India, Engadget, The Verge, The Verge and The Verge
| Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal: |
IPhone's Crutch of Subsidies — BARCELONA—For Google Inc., Europe's economic turmoil has had a silver lining: Smartphones that use the Internet giant's software are crushing the iPhone in countries hard hit by the continent's debt crisis. — Last year, despite Apple Inc.'s high-profile launch …
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| Jon Gertner / New York Times: |
Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle — “INNOVATION is what America has always been about,” President Obama remarked in his recent State of the Union address. It's hard to disagree, isn't it? We live in a world dominated by innovative American companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook.| Sylvie Barak / EE Times: |
Intel's Ivy Bridge delayed says senior executive — BARCELONA—A senior Intel Corp. executive has admitted that its next generation Ivy Bridge microprocessor will be delayed by around eight to 10 weeks to be launched in June. — Sean Maloney, executive vice-president of Intel and chairman …
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CNET and Financial Times
| Chris Sauve / pxldot: |
Android Measuring Stick — Android fragmentation is a topic that swells up how and again, but most discussions lack evidence and are typically laced with vitriol and “fanboy” accusations. I would like to work through a quantitative approach (beyond just version distribution numbers) …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Huawei MediaPad 10 FHD has quad-core K3 processor, 1080p display (hands-on pictures) — It was barely an afterthought in Huawei's MWC press conference, but the company is also getting ready to launch a seriously high-end tablet. The MediaPad 10 FHD has a 1080p display (actually 1920 x 1200) … Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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