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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) … | Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
Huawei outs Ascend D Quad: 4.5-inch 720p display, Dolby 5.1, 1.5GHz K3V2 CPU — We'd seen some prior leaks, but aside from poorly translated marketing jargon, Huawei's managed to keep its latest and greatest smartphone under wraps — until now, that is. The device is being billed as the … | Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Samsung unveils new Galaxy Beam smartphone / projector combo with dual core CPU — Samsung has finally started to reveal its new products at MWC 2012, starting with this new refresh of the Galaxy Beam packing Android 2.3, a projector and a dual-core CPU. There's more details and specs in the press release after the break.
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Galaxy Tab 2 coming in 10.1-inch version as well — Samsung has just announced a 10.1-inch version of the Galaxy Tab 2 Android tablet after revealing the 7.0-inch version earlier this month. The Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) will have a 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 LCD and a 1GHz dual-core processor running a Touch Wiz-skinned version of Android 4.0.| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
Sony Officially Unveils The Xperia P And Xperia U — While the ideal of skipping Sony's event to watch a beautiful Barcelona sunset was strangely appealing, we nevertheless come to you from Sony's press event where the recently divorced company has just (officially) revealed two new handsets, the Xperia P and the Xperia U.| 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.| Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac: |
Adobe Photoshop Touch hits iPad 2 for US$9.99 (Update: Pulled until Monday) — Note - Photoshop Touch just started hitting AU/NZ. Update: It was pulled, but it will be available Monday. Some of our readers reported that it works better than the Android version.
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FBI Turns Off Thousands of GPS Devices After Supreme Court Ruling — The Supreme Court's recent ruling overturning the warrantless use of GPS tracking devices has caused a “sea change” inside the U.S. Justice Department, according to FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissmann.
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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 …
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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.Thanks:@the_spinmd
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PayPal cracks down on erotica e-book sales — Remember when Amazon started removing various kinds of erotica from its store? It's happening again, this time with a number of independent e-publishing sites such as All Romance and Smashwords. Today, Nate Hoffelder called attention to an e-mail …
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WSJ Pulls Back On What Google Searchers Can Read For Free — Are you used to using Google as a way around the Wall Street Journal's paywall? Think again. The WSJ has been holding back stories available through Google's “First Click Free” program, a move that I suspect other newspapers might soon emulate.Sponsor Posts
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