BBC TalkTalk has launched a new, smaller YouView box with its latest TV, broadband and phone deal costing £7.50 per month. Both BT and TalkTalk give away online-connected YouView set-top TV boxes with their broadband deals. The new TalkTalk Essentials deal comes with the second generation of YouView box, worth £149 instead of the larger …
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The future of BlackBerry could be decided today as the troubled company hurtles towards today’s deadline to find a buyer. Two contenders have emerged as possible saviours of the company. BlackBerry’s largest shareholder, Canadian insurance and investment company Fairfax Financial Holdings, proposes to spend $4.7bn to take control of the rest of the company. And the New York Times reports …
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Samsung will again license key mobile patents from Nokia, the companies announced on Monday. Nokia said that Samsung will license and pay the handset maker for certain patents for a period of five years. The deal kicks off on January 1. Samsung and Nokia’s current relationship expires at the end of this year. Interestingly, Samsung and Nokia weren’t able to …
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AT&T on Monday confirmed that the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom will be available starting from November 8. Priced at $199 with a two-year service agreement, the camera-centric smartphone features a 16-megapixel shooter at its core. Related stories: Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom review AT&T offers free Samsung tablet to Samsung phone buyers AT&T said to be mulling Vodafone takeover Powered by …
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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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A deal to buy BlackBerry has fallen through, leading the ailing company to fire its boss and recruit a new man at the top. Canadian paper the Globe and Mail reports that BlackBerry will plough on after failing to find a buyer, booting boss Thorsten Heins and raising $1bn to keep the company going. BlackBerry’s future is hanging in the …
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Flipping heck, that’s expensive. Samsung has been going all 2004 on us lately, launching a range of flip phones overseas. And now it’s announced the king of them all, the Samsung W2014. It’s the most powerful yet, and features the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, as seen in the Nexus 5, Samsung Galaxy Note 3, and pretty much any phone that’s any …
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Despite only going on sale in Australia late last month, the Surface Pro 2 has already received a firmware update that vastly improves its battery life. (Credit: Microsoft) The update was designed to reduce the amount of power drawn by the Wi-Fi modem, and it seems to have succeeded admirably. Tests by AnandTech saw the tablet last for over eight …
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Android KitKat isn’t coming to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Google announced this week. But that hasn’t stopped some enterprising developers. A couple of KitKat ROMs for the Galaxy Nexus have popped up over at XDA Developers. They’re 100 per cent unofficial of course, so as ever with these things, you install at your own risk. The first is called A …
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It keeps getting more and more grim for BlackBerry. The embattled smartphone manufacturer on Monday disclosed that the deal to take the company private was dead, and that it would instead seek $1 billion in convertible debt financing. BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins, meanwhile, will step down, to be replaced on an interim basis by former Sybase CEO John Chen. Related …
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The latest Android 4.4 KitKat update is here — and the much-loved Samsung Galaxy S3 is finally updating to Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. The S3 has been left behind by Android updates — it’s been stuck on Android 4.1 — but now skips over 4.2 to 4.3. It joins the rarefied ranks of Android devices boasting features such as souped-up …
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Vodafone could soon be owned by US network AT&T. Bloomberg reports that AT&T’s execs are laying the groundwork for a potential takeover next year. People familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that the two companies haven’t yet started negotiations, but that AT&T is “intensifying work” on which of Voda’s assets it could snaffle in a deal, and who would buy …
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The iPad Air is getting plenty of rave reviews, but Amazon’s Kindle Fire HDX just took it in a display shootout. When DisplayMate Technologies tested the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9, the iPad Air, and Google’s Nexus 10, the Fire 8.9 “leapfrogged into the best-performing tablet display that we have ever tested,” according to the results posted Monday. The Kindle Fire …
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The iPad Air is slimmer than a supermodel with food poisoning, which means Apple has to fit an awful lot of technology into not an awful lot of space. Let’s take a look inside to find out more about the new chip, smaller battery and other technology in the slimline tablet. The intrepid gadget-probers at iFixit cracked the back of …
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Motorola’s next big smartphone is right around the corner. The company, a unit of Google, sent out save-the-date invitations for the launch of its Moto G smartphone on November 13. Related stories Best Phones Under $500 for 2022: Pixel 6A, iPhone SE, Galaxy A53 and More Motorola’s Back-to-School Sale Knocks Up to $600 Off Its Popular Smartphones Samsung’s Galaxy Z …
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