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| Jungah Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Preparing Wristwatch as It Races Apple for Sales — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) is developing a wristwatch as Asia's biggest technology company races against Apple Inc. (AAPL) to create a new industry of wearable devices that perform similar tasks as smartphones.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Samsung Confirms It Will Build A Smart Watch As Speculation About Apple's iWatch Continues — Samsung is indeed working on a smart watch, the company's Executive Vice President of Mobile told Bloomberg in an interview today. “We are preparing products for the future, and the watch is definitely one of them …
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| Russell Holly / Geek.com: |
Google expected to unify chat under the name Babble … - Home - Apple - Gadgets - Mobile - Games - Chips - - Forums - Shop
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| Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal: |
HTC's Rollout of Flagship Smartphone Delayed — TAIPEI—The rollout of HTC Corp.'s new flagship smartphone is being pushed back due in part to some component shortages, executives said, a setback for the Taiwanese smartphone maker attempting to turn around its sales.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 6.1.3 with Lock screen security flaw fix, Maps improvements for Japan — Apple has released iOS 6.1.3 to end users today. The update includes a security flaw fix involving the iOS device Lock screen. Additionally, the new update includes fixes for the Apple Maps application for Japan.
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| Brian Stelter / New York Times: |
ABC Works on an App for Live Streaming Shows to Mobile Devices — THE WALT DISNEY Company, while sorting out the future of the online video Web site Hulu, has an app in the works that may render Hulu passé for some people. — The app will live stream ABC programming to the phones … | Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
Tensions Rise Between Facebook, Developers — The Social Network Steps Up Efforts to Curb Spam, But Developers Say It Is Blocking Competing Apps — Last month in Paris, developer Antoine Morcos received an unexpected email: Facebook Inc. said it was cutting ties with his photo-sharing application, Vintage Camera.
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| David Kravets / Wired: |
Feds: No Warrant Needed to Track Your Car With a GPS Device — The President Barack Obama administration is claiming that authorities do not need court warrants to affix GPS devices to vehicles to monitor their every move. — The administration maintains that position despite …
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| John Poole / Primate Labs Blog: |
Samsung Galaxy S 4 Benchmarks — Android Authority ran Geekbench 2 on the new Samsung Galaxy S 4 last week and posted the results on YouTube. I thought it would be interesting to see how the Samsung Galaxy S 4 compares to other popular smartphones. — I've charted the Geekbench 2 scores …
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| Kyle Wiens / Wired: |
Forget the Cellphone Fight — We Should Be Allowed to Unlock Everything We Own — While Congress is working on legislation to re-legalize cellphone unlocking, let's acknowledge the real issue: The copyright laws that made unlocking illegal in the first place. Who owns our stuff?
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Justice Dept. to Congress: We want greater email, Facebook, Twitter snooping powers — Summary: As a US House committee prepares to meet to discuss changing outdated email privacy laws, the US government will today tell lawmakers that it wants greater powers to access email data …
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| Michael Grothaus / Co.Labs: |
An In-Depth Comparison Between iOS Map Frameworks: Apple MapKit vs. Google Maps SDK — “When we first got sight of Apple's maps in the iOS 6 SDK beta at WWDC 2012, we were excited,” says Lee Armstrong, developer of the popular Plane Finder app, which tracks planes in flight all over the world.
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
EU plans stronger consumer law enforcement after Apple warranty case — Summary: The European Commission is frustrated that its member states have on the most part failed to take action against Apple for flouting EU law, and warns that enforcement must be actioned in order to protect the rights of ordinary citizens.
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| Alexander Limi / Alex Limi: |
Checkboxes that kill your product — (To read this article with its formatting and typography intact, click here) — If I told you that a company is shipping a product to hundreds of millions of users right now, and included in the product are several prominent buttons that will break …
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Nokia wins German patent injunction against HTC over power-saving technology — This morning Nokia won a German patent injunction against HTC that may give the Finnish handset maker enough leverage to sell a patent license to its Taiwanese rival unless Qualcomm, which provides baseband chipsets to HTC …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to push Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to users starting March 19 — Summary: Microsoft is starting to push Windows 7 SP1 to Windows 7 users via Windows Update, ahead of the early April end-of-support date for the RTM version of the product. — As Microsoft marches toward … | Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Google Chromebooks Go Global: Now Available In Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland And The Netherlands — Google has learned all that it needs to learn about the reception of its Chromebook laptops in the U.S. and UK and has announced availability of Acer, HP and Samsung flavors … | Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
LG calls out Samsung for possible eye-tracking patent infringement in Galaxy S4 — Yonhap News reports that the Korean cousins Samsung and LG are in a row over the eye-tracking technology in their respective flagship phones, the Galaxy S4 and Optimus G Pro.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
ARM CEO Warren East Is Stepping Down And Getting Replaced By President Simon Segars — Warren East, the executive who has seen UK semiconductor juggernaut ARM Holdings through some of its most explosive growth, fuelled by deals with companies like Apple for its iPhone and iPad devices …
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Google undeletes RSS extension for Chrome browser — TheIt's not dead after all. Google has resurrected an extension that lets Chrome handle RSS and Atom feeds, even though it's not resurrecting the related Google Reader service. — The 868,163 people who've installed Google's RSS-handling extension …
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Same hacker may have targeted Ars, reporter Krebs, and Wired's Honan — Security reporter Brian Krebs has uncovered some details about one of the people tied to the denial of service attack on his site and the fraudulent 911 call that brought armed police to Krebs' doorstep.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Skype for Windows Phone updated with People Hub integration and HD video support — After temporarily disabling People Hub integration in Skype for Windows Phone, Microsoft is pushing out a fresh update this week that brings back the feature to its latest mobile OS.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Ex-Googlers Launch Sift Science, A Fraud-Fighting System For Websites, Backed By $5.5M In Funding From Union Square, First Round, YC & Others — Sift Science, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded by former Google engineers, is today launching its fraud-fighting service based on machine learning …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Samsung weird: how a phone launch went from Broadway glitz to sexist mess — Surprise! Corporate influence and ‘Sex and the City’ don't mix well — “While the ladies cool off, why don't you tell us about S Health?” — That line, uttered with complete sincerity, was the capstone … | Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
RapidShare scraps unlimited storage with short notice — Even customers who paid in advance for long-term unlimited storage at RapidShare will see it disappear on March 20. The company says its terms of service permit such abrupt changes. — Online storage provider RapidShare is expanding …
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