On what should be a quiet Good Friday, speculation is flying over an Android-themed event that Facebook has scheduled for next Thursday. Of course, the most low-hanging rumor fruit is that the company will really-we-mean-it-this-time introduce the endlessly discussed “Facebook phone.” This is one rumor mill that makes me ill so I’ll defer to BGR’s …
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Related stories How to change your Facebook vanity URL Stop strangers from contacting you on Facebook Quickly delete multiple Facebook messages in Chrome Facebook’s messaging system can sometimes be more distracting than useful. The ability for everyone you have as a friend to contact you in a real-time chat can eat a large chunk of your time each day (depending …
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Last week, Panasonic announced that it was considering cutting its plasma production after next year; this is especially troubling, as its 2013 lineup looks like the company’s best yet. Panasonic TVs like the ZT60 and VT60 could (finally) give our reference TV the Pioneer Kuro a run for its money, and for a much more affordable price. We’re not conspiracy …
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BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis, who left the co-CEO role just over a year ago, will retire from his current position on the board effective May 1. After hastily giving up the co-CEO position amid shareholder pressure, Lazaridis has served as vice chair and a director of BlackBerry. Last week, he launched a $100 million fund, Quantum Valley Investments, to work …
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Nokia confirmed today it has been slapped with a demand for back taxes by Indian tax authorities. According to Reuters, the Finnish phone maker was hit with a demand for income taxes 20.8 billion rupees ($383 million) going back five fiscal years. It comes only a month after one of Nokia’s factories in India was raided by the country’s tax …
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A prominent organization that advises major shareholders in public companies how they should vote in corporate elections has told MetroPCS owners to vote against the T-Mobile merger. Institutional Shareholder Services wrote to shareholders yesterday, saying that seeing their company merge with T-Mobile would not be in their best interests. According to The Wall Street Journal, which obtained a copy of …
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Getting an unlocked HTC One to play nice with T-Mobile LTE won’t be easy. Lori Grunin/CNET Today, T-Mobile hyped how much easier bringing phones to its new network will be. As it turns out, however, it isn’t as simple as you’d think. Related stories: T-Mobile finally gets the iPhone How the iPhone on T-Mobile will be different How T-Mobile is …
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The Samsung Galaxy S4 is now up for pre-order in the UK, giving hopeful shoppers the chance to throw money Samsung’s way ahead of the phone’s official launch on 26 April. Every major UK network is expected to sell the Galaxy S4, with Phones 4u’s contract deals suggesting you’ll be paying around £41 per month for the hotly anticipated phone, if …
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It’s not just the BlackBerry faithful signing up for the BlackBerry Z10. More than half of the customers snapping up a Z10 — 55 percent — are coming from a different platform, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins said during a conference call today. Heins wouldn’t go into detail about the breakdown of where these customers were coming from, but it’s an …
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After existing as a peripheral event during Mobile World Congress each year in Barcelona, Spain, the International Mobile Gaming Awards this year moved its ninth annual show to San Francisco. Launched in 2004, the IMGA is a competition for mobile games developed in countries across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Awarding is based on two rounds of judging by a …
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Don’t hang up the banners and throw the ticker-tape parade for BlackBerry yet. BlackBerry’s fiscal fourth-quarter report brought a bevy of good news. The company surprisingly returned to profitability; it shipped 1 million Z10 smartphones, the majority of which were snapped up by consumers; and it appears as if it it’s taking share from competing platforms. It’s a strong start …
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BlackBerry swung to a surprising profit in the fiscal fourth quarter amid early signs of progress with its BlackBerry Z10 flagship phone. For the three months that ended on March 2, the Canadian smartphone manufacturer reported a profit of $98 million, or 19 cents a share, compared with a year-ago loss of $125 million, or 24 cents a share. Excluding …
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4G now covers half the UK population as EE’s super-fast Internet connection arrives in thirteen more towns, taking the total to fifty. 4G EE hits the airwaves today in Bradford, Bingley, Doncaster, Dudley, Harpenden, Leicester, Lichfield, Loughborough, Luton, Reading, Shipley, St Albans and West Bromwich. EE says half of the population now has access to 4G EE, on phones such …
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Click through to find out where the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 falls on the list. Sarah Tew/CNET We spend a lot of time evaluating tech around here, looking at both the hardware and the software sides, and telling you which products we think are worth your hard-earned dough and which are best avoided. Behind the scenes, we’re always keeping an …
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Orange and T-Mobile have been sent to the doghouse, as it’s revealed that they are the two most complained-about networks in the UK. Ofcom’s latest report into the nation’s service providers puts Orange as the network that’s least popular with customers in the last three months of 2012, something that the communications watchdog blames on the operator’s decision to withdraw …
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