Friday, January 31, 2014

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Actually, Google is going to lose a lot of money by selling Motorola

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 08:50 AM PST

Since Google announced that it would sell Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91, a paltry sum considering that the company paid $12.5 billion to acquire Motorola just two years ago, reports have popped up suggesting that the losses are not that bad because of the patents that Google gets to keep. Even with the patents, buying Motorola is still a big loss.
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Google will keep Project Ara and other advanced Motorola smartphone projects

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 08:16 AM PST

Following yesterday's revelation that Google sold Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion, more information has emerged about what exactly Lenovo purchased. While the Chinese manufacturer did acquire Motorola's current and future product lineup along with its infrastructure, it did not purchase the advanced research unit responsible for things like Project Ara.
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Facebook Paper is like Flipboard, only made by Facebook

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 07:45 AM PST

Facebook today revealed that it has created a new reading app called Paper. The app is beautifully designed, connected through your social network, and launching only the iPhone. To put it simply, Paper is basically an alternative to Flipboard.
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Fingerprint scanner and 2K display incredibly likely to appear in Samsung Galaxy S5

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 07:08 AM PST

The Samsung Galaxy S5 was thought to have an iris scanner when an executive confirmed that Samsung was exploring the technology but might not have it ready this year. Though the Galaxy S5 might not have an iris scanner, it will almost surely have a fingerprint scanner based on new images from the consistently accurate evleaks.
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Thursday, January 30, 2014

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Google has sold Motorola to Lenovo for only $2.91 billion

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 02:29 PM PST

Google has just made a shocking announcement that it has agreed to sell Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 billion. what does this mean for the famous makers of the Moto X and DROID smartphones?
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Samsung said to downplay its own software, including some apps and Magazine UX, to focus on Google software

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 01:59 PM PST

Samsung's take on Android is a uniquely Samsung experience, particularly in the new user interface introduced in the Galaxy Note Pro and Galaxy TabPRO tablets. However, Samsung is reportedly backtracking on its major renovations and working on software more in line with the Android foundation.
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HTC, LG, Samsung, and others free to use a key feature that makes Nokia cameras better

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 12:15 PM PST

Gyroscopic stabilization has been an important aspect of what has made Nokia produce the better smartphone cameras released since 2012. Nokia had an exclusive on the technology, but it is now available to all smartphone makers.
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Rumored Samsung Galaxy S5 leaked photo suggests 16-megapixel camera

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 09:25 AM PST

A terrible photo reportedly taken with the Samsung Galaxy S5 has been sent to frequent leak source evleaks. The contents of the photo are irrelevant because it's just a mass of darkness and noise, so you can't draw any conclusions about the camera quality of Samsung's upcoming phone.
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AT&T pays new and existing customers $100 to start a new line

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 08:44 AM PST

AT&T today announced a $100 per line bill credit for any customer that starts a new line of service on the wireless network. New and existing subscribers get an automatic $100 credit on a bill when signing up for an AT&T Next, BYOD, or a standard two-year agreement. The temporary offer runs from now until March 31, 2014. The $100 credit will be reflected within one of the first three billing cycles.
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Samsung gets more of its own stores with Carphone Warehouse partnership

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 07:01 AM PST

Samsung Electronics and retailer Carphone Warehouse Group have announced a new deal that will see the creation of 60 stores dedicated to promoting, selling, and support Samsung products.
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Gmail bug may have deleted messages you meant to keep

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 06:18 AM PST

Better double-check your email spam and trash folders because a Gmail bug may have accidentally deleted some messages sent earlier this month. Google warns that an issue in Gmail "inadvertently caused some actions (e.g. delete, report spam)" while users viewed messages.
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

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AT&T converts 1 million customers to AT&T Next sales, sees fewer net customer additions

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 02:30 PM PST

AT&T has released its earnings report for the fourth quarter of 2013. The final three months of the year were good to AT&T in terms of smartphone sales and customers, but not as good as it has been in years past.
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BBM for Android will support Gingerbread devices soon

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 11:28 AM PST

One great side effect of BlackBerry bringing its Messenger app to Android and iOS last year was that it grew the community of BBM users by tens of millions. However, the Android version supported only Android 4.0, excluding millions of users still on Android 2.3. That will change soon.
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Apple CEO sees Touch ID as the mobile payment option of the future

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 09:13 AM PST

Apple has sat out the mobile payments race while several companies have fought to wrestle control over what is expected to soon be a multibillion-dollar industry. However, based on recent reports from the Wall Street Journal and comments from Apple CEO Tim Cook, mobile payments won't exclude the iPhone for much longer.
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Nintendo set to embrace mobile games, but only to promote itself

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 07:09 AM PST

As the rise of gaming on iOS and Android has posed significant threats to the popularity of its own mobile gaming products, Nintendo will reportedly develop games for smartphones and tablets. While that's great news to some, don't expect to see Mario racing across your iPad any time soon.
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Samsung promises to fix Galaxy Note 3 issue affecting third-party cases

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 06:28 AM PST

Though Samsung originally claimed that there was no correlation between the Android 4.4 release and the sudden incompatibility of third-party S-View cases for the Galaxy Note 3, the company has pledged to issue another update that restores compatibility to unofficial cases.
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HTC One KitKat update now live in Europe

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 05:42 AM PST

HTC has started rolling out the Android 4.4 KitKat update to the HTC One devices in some parts of Europe. HTC pledged to deliver the update within 90 days of KitKat being announced, and today's update makes good on that promise with just a handful of days to spare.
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