Sarah Tew/CNET Samsung announced Thursday that it’s partnering with magazine giants Conde Nast and National Geographic, along with Marvel comics, to highlight the graphics of its new Galaxy Tab S . The magazine content will be rolled into a new feature called “Papergarden.” Samsung Electronics Americas Senior Vice President Michael Abary said that having the …
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Sarah Tew/CNET The entire nation of the Central African Republic is now completely closed to text messaging, according to the AFP news agency. The ban comes during an especially bloody week for the war-torn country. The order to forbid texting was handed down by CAR Prime Minister Andre Nzapayeke and relayed by the country’s telecommunications ministry. “The use of any …
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Sarah Tew/CNET Google appears to have caught World Cup fever. The company announced Tuesday that it’s rolling out a couple of new sports apps and some other features for its Chromecast video-streaming dongle. “Soccer, fútbol, football, jogo bonito — however you say it, there’s a good chance you’ll be tuning in to watch when the 2014 FIFA World Cup kicks …
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Fitbit Force. Sarah Tew/CNET Fitbit appears to be a tour de force in the wearable world. New numbers released by analyst Canalys on Wednesday show Fitbit devices accounted for nearly 50 percent of the world’s 2.7 million wearable band shipments in the first quarter of 2014. Apparently, the recent kerfuffle and recall over allergic sensitivities to the Fitbit Force had …
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Lynn La/CNET Sprint has agreed to pay the US government $7.5 million in a record settlement concerning the national “Do Not Call” list. The Federal Communications Commission announced Monday that its Enforcement Bureau and Sprint came to an agreement regarding the phone company’s continued phone and text message marketing to people who had signed up to be on the Do …
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Samsung’s Galaxy S5. Josh Miller/CNET Samsung is reporting robust sales for its Galaxy S5 during its debut month. The company’s mobile head J.K. Shin said more than 11 million units of the flagship smartphone have sold since its April launch, according to The Wall Street Journal. “It’s been a month since we began selling the S5, and out of the …
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Lynn La/CNET AT&T has doubled down in the no-contract 4G LTE wireless arena. Now that the company has completed its $1.2 billion acquisition of Leap Wireless, AT&T announced Wednesday that it is merging Aio Wireless into Leap’s Cricket prepaid brand. This “new” Cricket is slated to give US users contract-free wireless on 4G LTE. “Today is more than a milestone …
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Dr. Warren Wiechmann, assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine and associate dean of instructional technologies, will oversee implementation of the Google Glass four-year program at UCI. Steve Zylius/UC Irvine The fledgling Google Glass is slowly working its way into the mainstream, and one place that people should get used to seeing the device is in hospitals. Several medical institutions have …
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Researchers were able to hack into the Galaxy S5 using a phony fingerprint. SRLabs/YouTube; screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET After researchers proved they could easily hack into Samsung’s Galaxy S5 smartphone using the device’s fingerprint scanner, a US senator is raising concerns about the device’s security and privacy features. US Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) wrote a letter (PDF) to Samsung on …
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Samsung’s Swarovski crystal covered Galaxy S5. Samsung Technology and fashion are “deeply intertwined,” according to Samsung. So, it makes sense the smartphone-maker would bathe some of it products in Swarovski crystals, right? The South Korean company released its “Swarovski for Samsung” accessory collection on its online story on Wednesday. The collection is specifically geared toward Samsung’s Galaxy S5 smartphone and …
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