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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 …
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Microsoft announces new Windows Phone partners, teases update to loosen hardware requirements, support software face buttons, dual-SIM, 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.
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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.| Andrew Hoyle / CNET: |
Huawei Ascend G6 has 4G LTE and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera (hands-on) — 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 will appeal … | Katie Collins / Wired.co.uk: |
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Netflix and Comcast Solve Their Web Traffic Problem With a Long-Term Deal — Comcast and Netflix have hammered out a deal designed to remove a bottleneck slowing the video service's streams for the cable company's broadband customers. — The deal focuses on the intersection between … | Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Facebook Price for Having No Phone OS? $19 Billion. A Must-Have Apps Play? Priceless. — Everyone in a room I was in today dropped their jaws in disbelief when I told them the news that Facebook had forked over $19 billion to buy the global mobile messaging service WhatsApp.
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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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| 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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| Alex Colon / Gigaom: |
HP unveils business-focused ElitePad and ProPad tablets, TX1 POS system — HP is showing off two new tablets, as well as a new point-of-sale retail system, ahead of Mobile World Congress. Both the ElitePad and ProPad tablets feature Microsoft's Windows 8.1 and 64-bit compatibility for a focus on business …
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| Eric Franklin / CNET: |
Lenovo tries again with the Yoga Tablet 10 HD+ with improved specs, coming in April for $349 (hands-on) — CNET Editors' Take — The best thing about the Lenovo Yoga Tablet 8 and 10 were their impressively long-lasting batteries. As for performance and value, well let's …
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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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| 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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Opera Launches Its Max Data-Savings App For Android — About a week ago, Opera teased its new Max data-savings app for Android and allowed users to pre-register. Starting today, Opera will roll out Max to these pre-registered Android users in the U.S. on a first-come, first-served bases.Sponsor Posts
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