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| 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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| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
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.| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
LG leans on high-end specs in smartphone push — LG, which has struggled over the past few years to make a major impact in the smartphone business, looks to LTE, HD displays, and quad-core chips to set itself apart. — LTE is a big focus at LG during its media preview event at Mobile World Congress.
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| 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 …
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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) …
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| 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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| Julia Angwin / Digits: |
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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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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
PayPal As Moral Police? Forces E-Book Sellers To Remove Certain Erotica Content — Adult content has long been a big draw, and one of the most profitable, in the world of digital media, but a recent move by PayPal is a sign of how one part of that business may be facing some problems up ahead.
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
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.| Bill Gurley / abovethecrowd.com: |
Why Dropbox Is A Major Disruption — Back in October, Techcrunch announced that Dropbox had raised $250mm at a seemingly absurd valuation. Many firms, including my firm Benchmark Capital, participated. When this happened, many people asked us why this was a special company that would cause us …
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| Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint: |
ViewSonic ViewPhone 4e, 4s, and 5e dual-SIM phones mix work and play — MWC 2012: New smartphones detailed — ViewSonic has announced the launch of a new range of dual-SIM Android smartphones - the ViewPhone 4e, 4s, ViewPhone 5e, and ViewPhone 3 - on Sunday, at Mobile World Congress.?
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