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HTC One S (T-Mobile) Review
— One of the best looking phones we've ever had the pleasure of using, the HTC One S features an attractive gunmetal gray chassis with subtle curves at the top and bottom of the device. Anodized aluminum material allows the back, sides and outer bezel …
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Intel: “We're Not Blinking on MeeGo”
— When your primary partner for bringing you mobile OS to market says that it wasn't moving fast enough and that it will now use it “not as part of another broad smart phone platform strategy, but as an opportunity to learn,” that pretty much sounds like a death sentence.
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Kyocera Echo Video Hands-On: First Dual-Screen Android Phone Comes to Sprint with 960 x 800 Pixels, “Simul-Tasking”
— Android is good at multitasking but not at letting you do multiple things at the same time. The Kyocera Echo is tailor-made for Simul-Tasking (yup, the term is trademarked).
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Motorola Atrix 4G Up for Pre-Order Feb. 13 for $199, $499 with Laptop Dock
— The most versatile smart phone we've ever laid hands on will be available for pre-order February 13, and will hit AT&T stores starting March 6. To recap, this Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core superphone can power a laptop dock that has its own battery.
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Cisco umi Brings HD Telepresence to Consumers...for $599
— Skype gave it a shot, but Cisco is taking video calling via your TV to the next level. The new Cisco umi telepresence promises to deliver full HD video quality in your living room. The product bundle includes an HD camera …
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Samsung Galaxy Tab Coming to U.S. On All Four Major Carriers, Wi-Fi-Only Version Coming
— Today Samsung announced that their Galaxy Tab will indeed come to American shores “in the coming months.” Just as with the Galaxy S line of smartphones, all four of the major carriers will have their own version of the Tab to push.
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Android Battery Test Reveals Droid X Lasts Longest, AMOLED Handsets Trail
— Ever since the first Android phone appeared, we've been developing a battery test that would accurately gauge their endurance, and lend some objective data to our anecdotal tests.Finally, we've come up with one …
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Mobile Flash Fail: Weak Android Player Proves Jobs Right
— I'm the last person on earth who wanted to believe Steve Jobs when he told Walt Mossberg at D8 that “Flash has had its day.” I took it as nothing more than showmanship when Jobs shared his thoughts on Flash and wrote that …
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Dell Introduces Back-to-School Friendly Inspiron 14R, 15R and 17R
— Today Dell launched a new line of Inspiron notebooks geared toward mainstream consumers and the Back to School crowd. The Inspiron R series — 14R, 15R and 17R — come wrapped in attractive, metal chassis, pack Intel Core i CPUs …
This Week on Channel 9 — Mark DeFalco and Dan Fernandez discuss the week's top developer news.
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
“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).