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Acer announces Liquid M220, a €79 Windows Phone coming to select European markets in April with a 4" display and 1.2GHz dual-core CPU — Acer's Liquid M220 offers Windows Phone on a budget (hands-on) — If you're curious about Windows Phone but don't want to spend much to check it out … | Agam Shah / PC World: |
Acer's new low-cost handset will be upgradeable to Windows 10 — Acer is getting a head-start on Windows 10, releasing a new smartphone that comes with Windows Phone 8.1 but which it promises will be upgradeable to the new OS when it arrives later this year.
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Acer announces €79 fitness tracker Liquid Leap+ with 1" OLED touchscreen and changeable straps, compatible with iOS, Android, and Windows Phone — Acer wants to sell you a touchscreen fitness tracker for less than $90 — This is Acer's latest play for your wrist, the Liquid Leap+.
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Hands-on with WebOS-based LG Watch Urbane LTE and Android Wear-based LG Watch Urbane — Our first look at LG's new webOS and Android Wear smartwatches — LG has kicked off Mobile World Congress this Sunday morning in Barcelona by showing off its two Watch Urbane smartwatches for the first time.
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Re/code, The Next Web, Engadget, CNET, PhoneArena, SlashGear, Wired.co.uk and Mashable
| Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
Huawei launches Talkband B2 activity tracker and N1 earbud hybrid — Huawei has today announced two new wearable devices, the B2 and N1, just ahead of the start of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. — The B2 is the successor to last year's B1 activity tracker, and comes with upgraded functionality and 6-axis tracking.| Kellex / Droid Life: |
Huawei Watch, an unannounced round-faced Android Wear smartwatch, shown off in two leaked promotional videos — This is the Huawei Watch, One of the Best Looking Android Wear Devices to Date — Huawei is about to make its presence felt at MWC with the announcement of the Huawei Watch.| Jonathan Libov / Whoops: |
How innovations in messaging interfaces could fundamentally improve how we interact with computers — Futures of text — A review of all the current innovation in text as a medium — When the weather is bad I take a bus to work. I'm forever grateful to the person at the bus stop … | Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
How Samsung won and then lost the smartphone war — In November 2011, Samsung released the first of a series of ads that would define the company for the next three years. — It started with a bunch of hipster-looking people waiting outside a mock Apple Store for the next iPhone.| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Dolby dives into virtual reality with Atmos surround sound for VR — As the momentum behind virtual reality slowly continues to build we're seeing more traditional movie companies dip their toes into the medium. Today Dolby is announcing a partnership with Jaunt that will bring …
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TechRadar.com, Examiner, High-Def Digest and Business Wire
| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
How hackers used rogue Tor exit relays to steal Bitcoin and rob Blockchain.info — How Hackers Abused Tor To Rob Blockchain, Steal Bitcoin, Target Private Email And Get Away With It — Across October and November of last year, some unlucky users of the world's most popular Bitcoin wallet …
Thanks:@thealexknapp
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How one guy spent $18K on coupon sites to net 100K shares in Jet from its referral competition — This guy used an insane get-rich-quick scheme to become a start-up millionaire in three weeks — Tech start-ups mint new millionaires every day. Many of these people are young Stanford …
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| Charles Morris / MSDN Blogs: |
How Microsoft built a new web rendering engine for Project Spartan and IE on Windows 10 — A break from the past: the birth of Microsoft's new web rendering engine — As we announced last month, Project Spartan will be the new browser across all Windows 10 devices, from phones to tablets, PCs and beyond.
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