In a shock move, Google has revealed a version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 that’s running pure Android, just like one of Google’s own Nexus gadgets. The officially confirmed device, which is yet to be officially named but was dubbed ‘Google Edition’ in an earlier rumour, is a dream device for many Android fans, as …
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Tests suggest that when new 4G services launch this summer, they won’t have as much of an effect on Freeview TV signals as previously thought. 4G signals zap high-speed Internet into your phone on a frequency perilously close to the frequency used to send Freeview to your telly, leading to concern that 4G would interfere with Freeview. But in the …
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PayPal is taking a major leap into the payment-processing space: it’s eliminating fees for businesses that sign up for its service. The news was announced on Tuesday by PayPal president David Marcus, who said that any business that dumps its old point-of-sale (POS) services in favor of PayPal Here — the company’s mobile-payment-processing service — or another POS offering that …
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Google TV, the ambitious living room operating system often maligned as slow to update, difficult to use, and less focused than alternatives like Roku or standard Smart TV suites, will finally get a major operating system upgrade later this year. LG announced today at Google I/O that its Google TVs will get the update to Android version 4.2.2, aka Jelly …
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4K is finally getting more affourdable, as Sony brings its Ultra HD X9 range of TVs to the UK for £4,000. Four grand’s a heck of a lot for most people to blow on a gogglebox, but it’s dramatically cheaper than next-gen tellies have been so far. Samsung’s 4K effort, the S9, recently went on sale in Selfridges for a …
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The four major wireless carriers are putting their sway behind a massive ad campaign that aims to lower the amount of people that text while driving in the U.S. Initiated by AT&T, the multi-million dollar “It Can Wait” campaign now has the support of Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, and more than 200 other organizations. Besides rolling out TV, radio, and Internet …
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ORLANDO, Fla. — BlackBerry wants to take on Twitter by creating its own social network through its BlackBerry Messenger service. The company on Tuesday unveiled BBM Channel, which allows users and brands to create a BBM profile that other users can follow, similar to how people can follow brands and users on Twitter. Related stories Best Password Manager to Use …
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Nearly three in every four smart phones sold in the first three months of the year were running Android, according to analyst firm Gartner. The phone industry expert’s stats make grim reading for any company making mobiles with any other operating system, particularly BlackBerry and Nokia. Even without new Android flagships such as the HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy …
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Photo-sharing app Snapchat has admitted it’s “sometimes possible” to recover deleted photos — which could mean blushes for anyone using the app to send saucy snaps. Snapchat is a messaging service that lets you send a photo to a friend’s phone, the service sending more than 150 million photos in a day — more than three times the number of pictures …
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ORLANDO, Fla. — BlackBerry’s advice for getting love from “CrackBerry” nation: build a native app. In an effort to augment its library, BlackBerry allowed developers to port over existing Android apps to run on BlackBerry 10 devices. While most of them work, they can’t access major features on the device. BlackBerry users notice the difference. Related stories Best Password Manager …
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ORLANDO, Fla. — More news rolled out of BlackBerry Live 2013 today, including the company’s plans to offer BlackBerry Messenger to Android and iOS devices. The BBM platform will hit these products by summer, but best of all, the service will be offered as a free download. The BlackBerry CEO sounded very excited about the move, a first for the …
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ORLANDO, Fla. — BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins on Tuesday unveiled the BlackBerry Q5, a budget phone designed for emerging markets. Related stories Best Password Manager to Use for 2022 Your Phone Screen Is Gross. Here’s How to Clean It Without Causing Damage Spending All Night With the First iPhone Kanye West’s Donda 2 Skips Spotify, 5G BlackBerry is Dead BlackBerry’s …
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ORLANDO, Fla. — BlackBerry needs to convince developers that they aren’t wasting their time working on its platform. Related stories Best Password Manager to Use for 2022 Your Phone Screen Is Gross. Here’s How to Clean It Without Causing Damage Spending All Night With the First iPhone Kanye West’s Donda 2 Skips Spotify, 5G BlackBerry is Dead BlackBerry’s 5G Phone …
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ORLANDO, Fla.–OK, so is BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins a fan of tablets, or isn’t he? Heins, who made waves last month when he said he didn’t see a place for tablets in five years, made some seemingly contradictory comments on tablets when he spoke on Tuesday during a Q&A session with the media while at the BlackBerry Live conference. Related …
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The more I run, the more I realize my regular playlist isn’t cutting it. Even with some 150 hand-picked songs, I get bored hearing the same ones over and over. And although they’re among my favorite power-pop tunes, they’re quite diverse when it comes to tempo. I need songs of at least 128 beats per minute (bpm) to keep me …
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