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| Jungah Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Preparing Wristwatch as It Races Apple for Sales — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) is developing a wristwatch as Asia's biggest technology company races against Apple Inc. (AAPL) to create a new industry of wearable devices that perform similar tasks as smartphones.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Samsung Confirms It Will Build A Smart Watch As Speculation About Apple's iWatch Continues — Samsung is indeed working on a smart watch, the company's Executive Vice President of Mobile told Bloomberg in an interview today. “We are preparing products for the future, and the watch is definitely one of them …
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| Russell Holly / Geek.com: |
Google expected to unify chat under the name Babble … - Home - Apple - Gadgets - Mobile - Games - Chips - - Forums - Shop
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| Brian Stelter / New York Times: |
ABC Works on an App for Live Streaming Shows to Mobile Devices — THE WALT DISNEY Company, while sorting out the future of the online video Web site Hulu, has an app in the works that may render Hulu passé for some people. — The app will live stream ABC programming to the phones … | Kyle Wiens / Wired: |
Forget the Cellphone Fight — We Should Be Allowed to Unlock Everything We Own — While Congress is working on legislation to re-legalize cellphone unlocking, let's acknowledge the real issue: The copyright laws that made unlocking illegal in the first place. Who owns our stuff?
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| Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
Tensions Rise Between Facebook, Developers — The Social Network Steps Up Efforts to Curb Spam, But Developers Say It Is Blocking Competing Apps — Last month in Paris, developer Antoine Morcos received an unexpected email: Facebook Inc. said it was cutting ties with his photo-sharing application, Vintage Camera.| Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal: |
HTC's Rollout of Flagship Smartphone Delayed — TAIPEI—The rollout of HTC Corp.'s new flagship smartphone is being pushed back due in part to some component shortages, executives said, a setback for the Taiwanese smartphone maker attempting to turn around its sales.| John Poole / Primate Labs Blog: |
Samsung Galaxy S 4 Benchmarks — Android Authority ran Geekbench 2 on the new Samsung Galaxy S 4 last week and posted the results on YouTube. I thought it would be interesting to see how the Samsung Galaxy S 4 compares to other popular smartphones. — I've charted the Geekbench 2 scores …
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| Michael Grothaus / Co.Labs: |
An In-Depth Comparison Between iOS Map Frameworks: Apple MapKit vs. Google Maps SDK — “When we first got sight of Apple's maps in the iOS 6 SDK beta at WWDC 2012, we were excited,” says Lee Armstrong, developer of the popular Plane Finder app, which tracks planes in flight all over the world.
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
EU plans stronger consumer law enforcement after Apple warranty case — Summary: The European Commission is frustrated that its member states have on the most part failed to take action against Apple for flouting EU law, and warns that enforcement must be actioned in order to protect the rights of ordinary citizens.
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| David Kravets / Wired: |
Feds: No Warrant Needed to Track Your Car With a GPS Device — The President Barack Obama administration is claiming that authorities do not need court warrants to affix GPS devices to vehicles to monitor their every move. — The administration maintains that position despite …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to push Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to users starting March 19 — Summary: Microsoft is starting to push Windows 7 SP1 to Windows 7 users via Windows Update, ahead of the early April end-of-support date for the RTM version of the product. — As Microsoft marches toward … | Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Google Chromebooks Go Global: Now Available In Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland And The Netherlands — Google has learned all that it needs to learn about the reception of its Chromebook laptops in the U.S. and UK and has announced availability of Acer, HP and Samsung flavors … | Alexander Limi / Alex Limi: |
Checkboxes that kill your product — (To read this article with its formatting and typography intact, click here) — If I told you that a company is shipping a product to hundreds of millions of users right now, and included in the product are several prominent buttons that will break …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
ARM CEO Warren East Is Stepping Down And Getting Replaced By President Simon Segars — Warren East, the executive who has seen UK semiconductor juggernaut ARM Holdings through some of its most explosive growth, fuelled by deals with companies like Apple for its iPhone and iPad devices …
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| Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
LG calls out Samsung for possible eye-tracking patent infringement in Galaxy S4 — Yonhap News reports that the Korean cousins Samsung and LG are in a row over the eye-tracking technology in their respective flagship phones, the Galaxy S4 and Optimus G Pro.| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Same hacker may have targeted Ars, reporter Krebs, and Wired's Honan — Security reporter Brian Krebs has uncovered some details about one of the people tied to the denial of service attack on his site and the fraudulent 911 call that brought armed police to Krebs' doorstep.
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Nokia wins German patent injunction against HTC over power-saving technology — This morning Nokia won a German patent injunction against HTC that may give the Finnish handset maker enough leverage to sell a patent license to its Taiwanese rival unless Qualcomm, which provides baseband chipsets to HTC …
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Slowing China Shipments Push PC Market From Bad to Worse — Research firm IDC has published its latest take on the state of the personal computer market, and depending on how you look at it — and where you work — it appears to be a case of going from bad to worse.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Meet the tiny, Florida-based phone maker that thinks it can beat Samsung — One cheap, high-end, unlocked smartphone at a time — Sammy Ohev-Zion starts our chat with an economics lesson. It costs every company about the same amount to manufacture a phone, he says …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Samsung weird: how a phone launch went from Broadway glitz to sexist mess — Surprise! Corporate influence and ‘Sex and the City’ don't mix well — “While the ladies cool off, why don't you tell us about S Health?” — That line, uttered with complete sincerity, was the capstone … | Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Microsoft beefs up Chinese Web retail presence with flagship store in Alibaba-owned Tmall — Microsoft showed its intention to get serious with hardware sales in China when it opened its Online Store in the country in October last year, and now it is stepping things up after it beefed …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Justice Dept. to Congress: We want greater email, Facebook, Twitter snooping powers — Summary: As a US House committee prepares to meet to discuss changing outdated email privacy laws, the US government will today tell lawmakers that it wants greater powers to access email data …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Skype for Windows Phone updated with People Hub integration and HD video support — After temporarily disabling People Hub integration in Skype for Windows Phone, Microsoft is pushing out a fresh update this week that brings back the feature to its latest mobile OS.
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
RapidShare scraps unlimited storage with short notice — Even customers who paid in advance for long-term unlimited storage at RapidShare will see it disappear on March 20. The company says its terms of service permit such abrupt changes. — Online storage provider RapidShare is expanding …
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