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Speck goes glam with new iPhone 5 cases

While Apple is rumored to be just a few months away from releasing a new iPhone — or iPhones, depending on what you believe — accessory makers are still busy releasing new cases for Apple’s existing products. Speck reps stopped by our offices in New York to show off some of their new products, which also included iPod Touch cases …

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Samsung Galaxy S4 torn apart, is easy to repair

What’s the first thing you’d do if you got your hands on the Samsung Galaxy S4? Tear that sucker to pieces, obviously, to find out how easy it is to repair. TechnoBuffal has created a video showing the S4 being torn asunder, and it turns out the S4 is even easier to fix than the Samsung Galaxy S3, already a …

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Nvidia’s Tegra mobile chip business hits a wall with growth

The market has pretty high hopes for Nvidia’s Tegra mobile chip business, but this year is shaping up to be a disappointment. Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang said that while Tegra has been growing “very quickly,” the business will be “about flat” this year. That’s because Nvidia pushed back the launch of its Tegra 4 chip by a quarter in order …

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Octa

Troubling news for British tech fans — early reports suggest the Galaxy S4 with an octa-core processor is much more powerful than the quad-core variant that’s coming to the UK. Samsung’s next flagship isn’t out until 26 April, though Samsung blog SamMobile claims to have put an “insider’s” octa-core Galaxy S4 through some benchmark tests already, and says the eight-core monster …

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Deutsche Telekom offers ‘best and final offer’ to MetroPCS

Major MetroPCS shareholders that have urged their fellow owners to scuttle the merger deal in the works with T-Mobile might have been heard by Deutsche Telekom after all. Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile’s parent company, announced today that it has slightly modified the merger agreement between T-Mobile and MetroPCS to make it more amenable to the latter’s shareholders. The new terms will …

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