Fingerprint Identification Technology May Be Next-Gen iPhone's Siri
Apple's (AAPL) next-generation iPhone is expected to be an "S" upgrade like the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4S before it. Rather than a complete overhaul…
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Complete Translation Of Apple CEO Tim Cook's Apology To Customers In China Now Available
Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook has already issued two major apologies in his short time as chief executive at Apple, and the latest came earlier…
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iPhone 5S Will Reportedly Arrive On China Mobile In July
Apple's (AAPL) iPhone is available in more than 100 countries from over 240 carriers, however it has never made its way to the world's largest mobile…
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In Latest Bid To Evade Copyright Cops, The Pirate Bay Moves Domain To Tiny Caribbean Island
It's been a wild year for The Pirate Bay as the infamous BitTorrent site has moved its domain name from one country to another in…
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Samsung, Intel Invest In Speech Analysis Company To Boost Voice Command Apps
Samsung, Intel and Telefónica have joined the likes of Google and invested in a startup company that specializes in speech analysis, IDC News Service reported.…
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iPad Mini Reportedly Accounted For 64% Of All iPads Shipped Last Quarter
That chomping sound you hear is the iPad mini eating into the sales of its older sibling. Unnamed sources have told Digitimes that Apple shipped…
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Obama Poised To Name Former Cable, Wireless Lobbyist To Chair FCC
The chances that the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission will investigate ISPs' use of bandwidth caps now seem decidedly slim. Unnamed sources have…
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Twitter Music For iPhone Barely Outshines Nokia's Last iOS App
It is difficult for big tech companies to create hot apps. Very difficult. A few months ago, Nokia's mapping app called HERE created a big…
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Apple Relents: iPhone 6 With Larger Display Reportedly Due In June 2014
Apple CEO Tim Cook said on the company's March-quarter earnings call that smartphone vendors have made too many "tradeoffs" with the user experience on handsets…
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Consumer Reports: Apple Outshines Rivals Once Again In Customer Support
Apple consistently ranks No. 1 in user loyalty and repeat business surveys, and one reason among many is the industry-leading technical support it provides its…
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Study Claims Facebook Has Lost 6 Million U.S. Visitors In Just One Month
Facebook isn't in any danger of experiencing a MySpace-style implosion anytime soon, but that doesn't mean the social networking giant isn't in danger of seeing…
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Android Design Chief Praises Facebook Home, Calls It Incredibly Polished
Facebook unveiled Facebook Home, an application that replaces your Android phone's homescreen with Facebook photos and status updates, earlier this month for select Android smartphones.…
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Suspect In Biggest Cyberattack In Internet History Arrested
Spanish officials have arrested a Dutch citizen in northeast Spain for his involvement in what has been called the biggest cyberattack in Internet history. The…
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New Devices Said To Debut At WWDC, But No iPhone 5S In Sight
While software is expected to take center stage at Apple's WWDC keynote this year, a new report claims that we'll still see some new hardware…
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OS X 10.9 To Debut At WWDC With 'Core Features' From iOS
Apple's next-generation OS X 10.9 software is obviously launching this year, and a new report claims to reveal several details about the upcoming OS that…
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Eight-Core Nexus 11 And Galaxy Tab 8.0 With High-Def AMOLED Display Detailed In Leak
To compensate for the boring tablet Samsung unveiled on Monday morning, details surrounding a handful of more exciting Samsung slates have emerged in a new…
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HTC One Review
The HTC One (2498) smartphone comes at an important time. As good, thoughtful and purposeful as HTC's products are, the company hasn't been doing as…
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Study Shows 45% Of Bitcoin Exchanges End Up Failing
Imagine a world where the Nasdaq, the Nikkei and the FTSE all failed within the span of a week and you have an idea how…
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Samsung Extends Mobile Market Lead As Nokia Dwindles, Apple Stalls
Samsung cleaned up in the first quarter. The South Korea-based vendor raked in record profits between January and March, and market research firm Strategy Analytics…
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Is That A Phablet In Your Pocket?
As supersized smartphones from Samsung continue to get more and more unwieldy, it's not just rival handset makers that are being forced to rework their offerings…
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Samsung Dominates Q1 Smartphone Market As Apple Sees 'Lowest Growth Rate Ever'
Vendors doing battle in the global smartphone market last quarter saw the distance grow between Samsung, the market leader, and the rest of the pack.…
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A Familiar Story: Samsung Rakes In Record Q1 Profit, But Growth Slows
Apple shares skyrocketed between 2009 and the end of 2012 as the company repeatedly posted record quarterly earnings. Of course, gravity eventually wins — breakneck…
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Apple's Future Is Already Looking Brighter
Apple CEO Tim Cook said on the company's recent earnings call that Apple is hard at work on new hardware and software that will begin…
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Australian Cops Nab Self-Proclaimed LulzSec Leader
The lulz have been few and far between for hacker collective LulzSec lately since several of its members are facing prison terms, and now Australia's…
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The New Apple
Tuesday evening's Apple results were beyond dramatic. The company buried a massive 18% drop in profits under an even bigger pile of cash, announcing that…
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Messaging Mania: Nokia Launches A WhatsApp Phone While Kik Raises $19.5 Million
Nokia on Wednesday launched a WhatsApp phone that includes unlimited WhatsApp messaging rolled into the retail price. And the retail price is just $72. The Asha…
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Apple's Quarter: Something For Bears And Bulls Alike
Apple's second quarter wasn't nearly as bad as the bears on Wall Street thought it would be. In fact, the company actually beat estimates, even…
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Samsung Galaxy S4 Review
What company is rolling out an iterative update to its best-selling smartphone in the world? One that builds upon the success of the previous model, yet for…
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BlackBerry Q10 Review
BlackBerry's famous hardware keyboard is finally becoming available on the company's latest operating system called BlackBerry 10 in the coming days, and the company's new…
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Apple Posts Q2 Earnings: $9.5B Profit On $43.6B In Revenue; Boosts Stock Buyback By $50 Billion
What a difference a year can make. This time last year, Apple's stock was dancing in the mid-$500 range about to make an explosive run…
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Siri Is Just As Dangerous To Use While Driving As Texting
A new study from the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University found that using a voice-to-text feature such as Siri to send messages while driving is just…
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Apple Reportedly 'Caught Flat-Footed' By The Rise Of Phablets
The iPhone 5 has certainly been a hit but it doesn't seem to have been the record-breaking, world-conquering hit that previous iPhone models have been.…
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Google Now May Be Coming To Google's Homepage
Google's award-winning intelligent personal assistant Google Now may be heading to the company's homepage. The unofficial Google Operating System blog recently discovered the new feature…
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Activist Investor's $2 Billion Microsoft Stake Could Put Ballmer On The Hot Seat
While Steve Ballmer's job is still safe for now, a major new investment from an activist hedge fund could put pressure on Microsoft's chief executive to…
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iPhone Sales Projections Are Now So Low It's Ridiculous
If iPhone sales volumes fall as low as some Wall Street analysts now expect during the spring quarter, the decline would actually be worse than the…
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Home Is Where The Heart Is: Facebook Home Downloads Top 500,000
Facebook's new Home software saw mixed reviews from those who took an early look at it, but tech bloggers and reporters aren't exactly Facebook's target…
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Nintendo Executive Claims Digital Sales Are Soaring
Nintendo's new Wii U has been labeled a flop with estimated sales of only 55,000 units domestically in the month of March. Nintendo of America's chief executive…
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Microsoft Offsets Tanking PC Sales With Windows 8 Upgrades, Surface Sales
Despite PC sales recently experiencing their steepest decline ever in a single quarter, Microsoft managed to increase overall revenues from its Windows division. The company…
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Google's Future: Doing The Impossible
Google's first-quarter earnings beat Wall Street expectations, aided by a lower tax rate and a research credit. Even though the stock moved on the numbers,…
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Google Is Trying To Shrink Motorola Into Success
It is hard not to admire Sanjay Jha's cool genius in handling Motorola's sale to Google. He leveraged Motorola's old sales contacts in Asia and…
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Google Beats Expectations With EPS Of $11.58 On $11 Billion In Revenue
Google on Thursday posted first quarter earnings of $11.58 per share on revenue of $11 billion, thus beating Street expectations of $10.64 in EPS on $11.11…
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Microsoft's Q3 Profit Climbs As PC Market Tumbles
Expectations were high ahead of Microsoft's fiscal third-quarter earnings report on Thursday. The PC industry saw a devastating decline in the March quarter but while its…
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Microsoft Partners Say Windows 8 Caused 'Millions Of Customers' To Switch To Apple
With PC sales crashing and burning, it's not surprising that several PC OEMs are still fuming about Windows 8, the operating system that has so…
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Verizon Profit Climbs To $1.95 Billion In Q1 On Solid Subscriber Growth
Verizon Communications posted its first-quarter earnings results on Thursday, showing solid income and revenue growth. The nation's No.1 carrier reported EPS growth of 15.3% in…
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HP's Latest Plan To Boost PC Sales: Integrating Leap Motion 3D Motion Control Sensors
Things haven't been going well for PC vendors as of late with sales recently experiencing their steepest decline ever in a single quarter. HP is…
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Samsung Galaxy S4 Launches On Seven U.S. Carriers In April [Updated]
When BGR previewed the Samsung Galaxy S4 back in March, we called it the Android smartphone by which all others will be judged in 2013.…
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Next-Gen Battery Tech Can Charge A Smartphone In Seconds
Mobile devices have come a long way in a short period of time. It seems as if smartphones and tablets are capable of just about…
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Gap Keeps Narrowing: Google Play Now Delivering 90% Of iOS App Download Volume
App Annie's Market Index for the first quarter of 2013 shows Google Play continuing to narrow iOS' lead in app download volume and revenue creation.…
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Dell Executive Defends Windows RT, Company Planning New ARM-Based Tablets
Despite negative reception and poor sales, Dell remains committed to Microsoft's Windows RT operating system. The company has confirmed that it plans to release "future…
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WhatsApp Now Bigger Than Twitter, But Lead Over Rivals No Longer Seems So Vast [Updated]
WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum has been talking at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference and he revealed some numbers about the company's performance. The figures…
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Android Malware Infections Found To Have Tripled In 2012
Anyone developing malicious software for mobile devices has set his or her sights almost exclusively on Android at this point. Mobile security vendor NQ has…
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Firefox OS Smartphones To Debut In June In Emerging Markets
Speaking at AllThingsD's Dive Into Mobile conference on Monday, Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs announced that the first Firefox OS smartphones will launch around June, Business…
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Sony-Backed ISP Shames Google Fiber, Launches 2Gbps Service In Japan
A Sony-backed ISP has announced that it now offers the world's fastest home broadband service. So-net Entertainment on Monday began offering its "Nuro" fiber-based service…
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Why A Dish Takeover Of Sprint Would Be Fascinating
Pay-TV operator Dish has made a dramatic bid for Sprint in an effort to elbow SoftBank aside. The company's $25.5 billion bid is 13% above…
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Next-Gen iPad To Be Lighter, Thinner Thanks To New Display Tech
Apple's fifth-generation iPad may debut as soon as later this month, and it is expected to feature a significant design overhaul. With major internal and…
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The Pirate Bay Gets Booted Out Of Greenland In Less Than Two Days
Things haven't been going very well for The Pirate Bay recently ever since the notorious file-sharing website had to scrap its plans to shift hosting responsibilities…
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Raspberry Pi Sales Soar Past 1 Million As U.K Production Tops 500,000 Units
The bulk of Raspberry Pi production moved from China last September to one of Sony's factories in Wales. The Raspberry Pi Foundation this week announced that…
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Apple Target Slashed Again, Choppy Waters Expected In Q2
Apple (AAPL) is set to post its results for the second fiscal quarter later this month and sell-side analysts are getting antsy yet again. RBC…
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Verizon To Abandon Early Upgrades
Many wireless providers in the U.S. require customers to sign a two-year service agreement when purchasing a new smartphone, though some still allow subscribers to…
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Facebook Home Now Available For Select Android Smartphones
Facebook (FB) on Friday was true to its word and released Facebook Home for some Android devices. The application, which was announced last week, is only…
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Why Lenovo Has Been The Only OEM To Weather The Great PC Collapse So Far
The Wednesday IDC report on the disastrous state of the PC industry had one very interesting tidbit that many overlooked: Namely, that while companies such…
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How A Single Android Smartphone Can Crash An Airplane
A hacker claims that a single Android handset can be used to hijack an entire plane, Net-Security reported. Security consultant and trained commercial pilot Hugo…
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Devastating PC Decline Is Literally Incomprehensible To Industry Experts
Despite ill omens, the IDC report about PC volume decline hitting -14% in the first quarter shows once again how much trouble the tech industry…
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WSJ: Microsoft Is Prepping A 7-Inch Surface Tablet
What a coincidence — on the same day market research firm IDC reported that the PC industry saw its worst-ever decline, The Wall Street Journal…
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IDC: Windows 8 Has Actually Made PCs 'A Less Attractive Alternative To Tablets'
While Microsoft's (MSFT) launch of Windows 8 was supposed to be the big change that the company needed to help personal computers keep pace with…
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Competition Takes A Bite Out Of Apple
Apple (AAPL) is set to post its results for the second fiscal quarter on April 23rd and a new report suggests increased competition may have…
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Survey: 83% Of Americans Have No Idea BlackBerry 10 Has Launched
If you want to understand the major challenges that BlackBerry (BBRY) faces in the American market, look no further than a new survey commissioned by MKM…
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Botched SimCity Launch Vaults EA To Second Consecutive Award For 'Worst Company In America'
It wasn't easy, but Electronic Arts (EA) managed to beat out the competition and make history by being named the "Worst Company in America" by…
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iPhone 5S Will Reportedly Be Available With 'At Least' Two Screen Sizes
Vendors such as Samsung (005930), LG (066570) and HTC (2498) offer a variety of smartphones with different screen sizes, but Apple (AAPL) has never felt the…
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Microsoft Extends Anti-Google Efforts To Europe As It Files A New Antitrust Complaint
When last we heard of the "Scroogled" campaign, Microsoft (MSFT) had moved its efforts from the public relations front to the legal front and was…
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Number Of Teens Texting While Driving Has Doubled Since 2010 Despite Warnings
Despite increased efforts by companies such as AT&T (T) and others to prevent teenagers from texting while driving, a new statistic showed that the problem…
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New Startup Looks To Kill Off Patent Trolls
A San Francisco-based startup is looking to kill off companies that buy and enforce patents in the technology sector but do nothing else with their…
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Google's Reported Plan To Buy WhatsApp For $1 Billion Would Really Tick Off Facebook
Google (GOOG) and WhatsApp have reportedly been locked in negotiations about an acquisition for more than a month — and WhatsApp is pushing for nearly…
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Microsoft Exec Tells Critics Of Possible Always-Online Xbox To 'Deal With It' [Updated]
While we still don't know for certain if Microsoft (MSFT) will really require an always-on Internet connection for its next-generation Xbox, one Microsoft executive doesn't…
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Reddit User Claims To Have Invested 'Entire Retirement And Savings' In Bitcoin
Do skyrocketing Bitcoin prices mean that the virtual currency is in the midst of a speculative bubble? Don't tell that to Reddit user anon_bitcoin_gambler, who claims…
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Facebook Home Revealed In Leaked Images
Recent rumors have suggested that Facebook (FB) is planning to announce brand new Android software during a press conference on Thursday, and the company has reportedly partnered…
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HTC First Preview: The First Phone To Feature Facebook Home
We just had a chance to dive into Facebook's (FB) new "Home" software suite on the HTC First, and came away with some good early…
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Facebook Home: A Bigger Deal Than You Think
Facebook's (FB) announcement of Facebook Home, coming soon to Android, was perhaps the most impressive thing Facebook has launched since the "like" button. Available initially on the…
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Samsung's Hot Streak Continues In Q1: Record $7.7B Profit On $45.9B In Sales
Samsung Electronics (005930) on Friday posted its earnings guidance for the first quarter of 2013. The world's No.1 smartphone vendor continued on its warpath last…
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Samsung Galaxy S IV Rumored For April Launch With Integrated S Pen
Samsung's (005930) next-generation Galaxy S IV smartphone may combine the best of both worlds by mixing the popular Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II…
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Yet Another Purported Picture Of The Galaxy S IV Leaks
Earlier this month, an alleged press image of Samsung's (005930) upcoming Galaxy S IV smartphone surfaced on the Web. The image had the look of…
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Galaxy S IV Unveiling Reportedly Set For March 15th
Recent rumors have suggested that Samsung (005930) will announce its flagship Galaxy S IV smartphone at a press conference sometime in March. It was previously reported that…
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Samsung Reportedly Plans To Sell 100M Galaxy S IV Phones, Could Pull Resources Away From Apple
Samsung's (005930) next-generation Galaxy S IV is expected to be its most successful smartphone yet and according to a new report, it might be so…
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Verizon's Galaxy S IV Detailed In Purported Benchmarks
Samsung's (005930) upcoming Galaxy S IV smartphone for Verizon (VZ) may have been detailed in newly discovered benchmark test results. The device carries the model number…
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Problems With New Samsung Chip In Galaxy S IV May Lead To A Huge Win For Qualcomm
Samsung (005930) may once again choose to use a Qualcomm (QCOM) Snapdragon processor in its upcoming flagship smartphone. Earlier rumors claimed that the company would…
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The Outrageous Way Many Americans Rewrite Mobile Phone History
The first mobile phone call was placed 40 years ago. So on Wednesday, we were treated to several "History of the Mobile Phone" articles by…
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Galaxy S IV's New AMOLED Technology Could Give 25% Boost To Battery Life
Earlier reports have suggested that Samsung's (005930) upcoming Galaxy S IV smartphone may support futuristic non-touch gesture technology. SamMobile, which has provided us with accurate…
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The Big Question For Samsung: Will The Galaxy S IV Press Event Top Last Year's Epic Bombast?
One of the most fascinating things about Samsung's (005930) product launches is how remarkably they contrast with its television marketing campaigns. Samsung's TV ads, as…
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Samsung Vows To Bring Galaxy S 4 Software Features To Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note II
Owners of older Samsung (005930) smartphones may be feeling envious of the newly announced Galaxy S 4, which is chock-full of new features. They shouldn't be…
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Samsung's Design Chief Defends Galaxy S 4's Plastic Case
Samsung (005930) unveiled its Galaxy S 4 smartphone during an outlandish press conference at Radio City Music Hall last week. The company announced its flagship…
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Samsung Will Reportedly Announce Galaxy S4 Mini This Week
Earlier rumors have suggested that Samsung (005930) is preparing to launch a smaller version of its Galaxy S4 smartphone called the Galaxy S4 mini that is expected to…
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T-Mobile Grows Branded Subscriber Base For First Time In Four Years In Q1
T-Mobile on Thursday reported its subscriber figures for the first quarter of 2013, when it managed to grow its branded subscriber base for the first…
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Facebook, Mobile Games Account For Half The Time Spent On iOS, Android Devices
Maybe Facebook (FB) is onto something after all with its notion that people want their smartphones to be centered more around its social network. Flurry Analytics…
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Apple's 'iTV' Said To Launch This Year With 'Major Innovation That Will Revolutionize The TV Experience'
Apple's (AAPL) own-brand HDTV has reportedly been in the works for years now, and it will finally debut later this year according to a new…
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Skype Seems Miles Behind WhatsApp On Daily Engagement
Skype just announced proudly that its users spend 2 billion minutes a day on Skype calls. It's a big achievement, for sure... but considering how…
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Apple's 'Slower Pace Of Product Innovation' Seen Hurting Performance
Apple (AAPL) continues to feel the heat after a monumental shift in sentiment that saw the company's share price plummet more than 35% after hitting a record…
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AT&T-Vodafone Hookup May Revolutionize Roaming
If the AT&T-Verizon takeover of Vodafone actually goes through, it might represent an earthquake in mobile roaming. AT&T's (T) acquisition of Vodafone's portfolio of carriers…
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HBO Admits Piracy Is A 'Compliment' That Doesn't Hurt Sales
While some companies are looking to end piracy across the entertainment industry, one major player doesn't think it's quite the crisis it's often made out…
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HTC Offering Free Accessories And Gift Cards To Win Back Consumers
The past year hasn't been a pleasant one for Taiwanese handset maker HTC (2498), which despite producing critically acclaimed smartphones continues to struggle against the competition.…
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HTC May Debut Windows 8 Tablet Later This Year
It has been over year since HTC (2498) has released a tablet, however a new report suggests the struggling company is preparing to take on…
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Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Instant Show How Cable Could Die By A Thousand Cuts
Survey after survey shows that America's major cable companies are among the least-liked businesses in the United States, but The Houston Chronicle's Dwight Silverman sees hope…
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Android's Market Share Lead Over iOS Explodes To Eight Points In The U.S.
Kantar is out with its smartphone market share numbers for three months ending in February and Android devices continue pulling away from iPhone in the…
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Dell Admits Being A PC Maker Is A Dead End In New SEC Filing
There's a good reason Dell (DELL) wants to go private and back out of the traditional PC business: Because it thinks selling computers based on…
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