LG is working on a fix that will stop its smart TVs sharing individual customers’ viewing habits and private media file names and sending the data to LG servers. One of LG’s smart TVs. (Credit: CNET) The worrying information was first made public by UK blogger Doctor Beet, who published a blog post with his …
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A jury in San Francisco has decided that Samsung should pay Apple US$290 million in damages for its patent infringement, bringing the total award from Korea to Cupertino to around US$930 million. (Credit: CBSi) Despite Samsung claiming it should only have to pay around US$52 million, saying that Apple doesn’t own a patent on “beautiful and sexy”, the jury ruled …
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Qualcomm has announced an updated processor and long-term evolution (LTE) modem within its Snapdragon 800 family, with the new chip headed to smartphones, tablets and Ultra HD TVs. (Credit: Qualcomm) The Snapdragon 805 is Qualcomm’s most powerful, highest-performing system on chip so far. It packs a quad-core, 2.5GHz Krait 450 CPU and an Adreno 420 GPU that has 40 per …
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The 800,000 Galaxy Gear smart watches that Samsung has shipped aren’t necessarily on the wrists of consumers just yet. The figure represents the number of watches sold to retail and partner stores — not to end users. (Credit: Brian Bennett/CNET) The Korean Yonhap News Agency reported the clarification, with The Verge confirming with Samsung’s head office in South Korea. The …
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A future Samsung Galaxy smartphone will be released with a flexible display that wraps around its outer edges, showing information on the phone’s bezel. The current Samsung flagship, the Galaxy Round. (Credit: Samsung) According to Bloomberg, the next Galaxy innovation will be a screen that wraps around the two long edges of the phone, displaying messages and other information on …
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Nokia is adding Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy (LE) to every Windows Phone 8 device that it has made, with an imminent update adding support for the low-power wireless technology. The Nokia Lumia 1020. (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) Bluetooth Low Energy is a connection standard used by newer low-power accessories, such as smart watches, heart rate monitors and personal activity trackers. The …
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HTC is cutting its operating costs by almost a quarter in order to stave off bad results, but its new One max smartphone isn’t capturing buyers’ interest. The HTC One. (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) HTC has had a tough year: first, facing supply problems for the HTC One and then lacklustre demand for the HTC One mini and HTC One max. …
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Over half of all currently active Android devices are running the up-to-date Jelly Bean operating system, according to Google. It isn’t all good news, though, with a quarter of all devices still stuck on the three-year-old Gingerbread platform. Google’s pie chart for different Android device versions. (Credit: Google) The data, collected from any device that visited or accessed the Google …
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HTC has said that it plans to push the latest version of Google’s Android operating system to its range of One smartphones as soon as possible, with all North American variants receiving the update in 90 days or less. (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) HTC North America boss Jason Mackenzie told Engadget that all carrier variants of its HTC One would be …
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The Samsung Galaxy Nexus, one of the older devices in Google’s Nexus program, won’t be updated to Android 4.4 KitKat. Google says the phone is outside its 18-month window for updates. (Credit: Google) The Galaxy Nexus was released in November 2011 and debuted Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. It has had constant updates since then and currently …
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