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| Joe Belfiore / Windows Phone Blog: |
Scaling Windows Phone, evolving Windows 8 — A lot of you folks know me as “the Windows Phone guy.” Over the past five years I've been co-managing the Windows Phone product team on a mission to make Windows Phone a delightful and successful platform. Recently my job changed to focus …
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Windows Phone update coming this Spring with Dual-SIM and app install on SD — Next Windows Phone update will allow for more affordable devices — Microsoft wants Windows Phone to go global in an even bigger way. — The company spilled a few of the details from its upcoming update to Windows Phone … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
| CNET: |
Huawei Ascend G6 has 4G LTE and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera (hands-on) — CNET Editors' Take — Huawei has a new phone to show off at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in the form of the Ascend G6. With a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, Huawei is hoping the Android phone … | Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Huawei announces TalkBand B1 smart watch with 1.4 inch flexible OLED display and removable earpiece — Huawei's first smartband has a pop-out earpiece for voice calls — Huawei hasn't exactly been keeping quiet about its very own wearable device, so today's announcement of its TalkBand B1 should be no surprise to anyone.
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| Katie Collins / Wired.co.uk: |
Huawei cracks tablet design with MediaPad X1 and M1 (hands-on) … Huawei is the first to admit that it's late to the tablet game, but at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, it's got too brand new offerings: the 8-inch MediaPad M1 and the 7-inch MediaPad X1.
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Apple promises fix “very soon” for Macs with failed encryption — (Reuters) - Apple Inc said on Saturday it would issue a software update “very soon” to cut off the ability of spies and hackers to grab email, financial information and other sensitive data from Mac computers.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
On the Timing of iOS's SSL Vulnerability and Apple's ‘Addition’ to the NSA's PRISM Program — Jeffrey Grossman, on Twitter: … iOS 6.0 shipped on 24 September 2012. — According to slide 6 in the leaked PowerPoint deck on NSA's PRISM program, Apple was “added” in October 2012.
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| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Facebook's WhatsApp acquisition should atone for a prank Zuckerberg played on Sequoia in 2004 — The Story Of Sequoia Capital's $3 Billion ‘Revenge’ On Mark Zuckerberg — He's become a successful CEO and a generous person, but ten years ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used to have something of an attitude.| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla's Partners Launch New Firefox OS Phones As It Looks To Expand To New Markets In 2014 — Just ahead of the start of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Mozilla today announced a number of new Firefox OS smartphones from partners like ZTE, Huawei and Alcatel, as well as a $25 reference design from Spreadtrum.
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Mozilla Says New Chip Paves Way for $25 Smartphone — Mozilla, which continues to pitch its Firefox OS as a way to create low-cost smartphones, on Sunday announced a chip deal it says will allow for devices that can cost as little as $25. — The browser maker is partnering with Spreadtrum to create reference designs of such phones.
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Google, LG working on smartwatch to be unveiled in June — BARCELONA, Spain—Google and LG are about to jump into the smartwatch game together. — Google is set to unveil plans for its smartwatch-centric operating system in March, likely in a blog post, according to a person familiar with its plans.
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| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
Samsung Gear 2 smartwatches coming in April with Tizen OS and better battery life — Even in an industry known for evolving at an impossibly quick pace, it's rare for a product to be replaced in just five months. If you've read our review of Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch, however …
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