‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ features a new 3D technology that some people have criticized for looking too much like TV. New Line Cinema Now that Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” has opened in theaters around the world, the most controversial thing about it isn’t even that he somehow is making three 3-hour …
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Residents in an additional 17 towns and cities in the U.K. will have the option of signing up for EE’s 4G LTE network by March 2013. Everything Everywhere — a collaboration between mobile operators Orange and T-Mobile — launched the United Kingdom’s first 4G network in October this year. Although these two carriers still exist, for next-generation data speeds EE …
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Talks between Sprint Nextel and Clearwire are heating up. Sprint confirmed via a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission made public today that it is in talks with Clearwire to buy out the remaining stake in the upstart wireless provider that it doesn’t already own. The company said it believes that it would cost $2.1 billion to buy out …
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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean will begin rolling onto Verizon’s Samsung Galaxy S3 as soon as tomorrow, Verizon announced today on its blog. Related stories Samsung Galaxy S3: Android excellence Android 4.1 Jelly Bean review The update will occur in phases, so you may have to exercise some patience before you see your OS version start its over-the-air transformation to Android …
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It appears that 2013 will be the year that mobile shopping becomes pervasive. According to the just-released “Q4 2012 Developer Survey Report,” from research firm IDC and Appcelerator, a mobile-platform developer, it’s likely that most retail companies will have enabled mobile commerce in 2013. The survey, which encompasses the views of nearly 3,000 Appcelerator customers, predicts that 86 percent of shoppers …
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T-Mobile announced today that it added five new metro areas to its list of U.S. cities served by 4G (HSPA+) on its faster 1900 network, including Chicago, Reno, and three regions in California. “T-Mobile has now enhanced the network in 23 metro areas, and we have already reached 100 million people with this improved network experience,” T-Mobile USA’s chief technology …
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Research In Motion’s upcoming BlackBerry 10 is being eyed by one government agency that had already planned to switch to iPhones. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency will take a look at BB10 starting in January. The agency plans to launch a pilot program to test BlackBerry 10 devices and the BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 to see if …
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Samsung Electronics may be looking to blur the lines between a phone and tablet even further. The Korean electronics giant is working on a bigger, 6.3-inch display for the eventual Galaxy Note 3, according to the Korea Times. Related stories Best Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 Cases TV in the Bathroom: Technically Doable but a Very Bad Idea Samsung TV …
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The HTC Evo 4G LTE is the newest member of the Sprint family to receive an Android 4.1.1 update. Related stories Android 4.1 review CNET Review: HTC Evo 4G LTE HTC sheds light on Android 4.1 plans Sprint will release Jelly Bean in stages over the next few weeks, but anxious users can manually install the update starting today. As …
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You know how most movies appear letterboxed on your iPad? Those black bars are kind of a waste of space. So what if you slid the movie upward and filled the empty bottom area with, you know, stuff? Things like actors’ filmographies, still images and art from the movie, little bits of trivia, sharing and social-media options, and so on? …
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New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission voted today in favor of a one-year test program that would let people use a smartphone app to hail a taxicab. And that was sweet news for startup Uber. The private-car service had begun offering its app to cab users in September but stopped the effort a little more than a month later …
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The holiday season may be in full swing, but that hasn’t stopped AT&T from keeping busy. The carrier announced today that it has expanded its 4G LTE data network to seven additional metropolitan areas. Related stories When Does My Phone Unlock? And How Can I Get My Carrier to Do It? Best Internet Providers in Chicago Galaxy S22 Deals: Up …
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Huzzah! Motorola Razr HD owners have something to cheer about this Christmas, with the update to Jelly Bean now rolling out to Telstra handset owners. We were lucky enough to get access to the update a bit earlier than most, and have revisited the Razr HD this week to see how it fares with the improvements that Jelly Bean brings. …
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Dell has put its smartphone ambitions into reverse, announcing that it will not make new Android products and that its tablets will all run on Windows 8 from here on. Speaking at Dell World in Austin, Texas, and as reported by Forbes, Dell’s vice chairman and president, Jeff Clarke, confirmed that there will be no new Dell Android devices. He …
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Open wide Britain — like a cat that requires medicine, EE has wrapped you in a tea towel and is pushing 4G services down your throat. 17 new towns will be enjoying access to the speedy new network by March 2013 EE says, including Coventry, Leicester, Luton and Wolverhampton. The full list of new towns is below — have a …
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