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Nokia dumps Qt unit on Digia

Nokia Nokia has finally gotten Qt off its hands. The company announced today that it has sold Qt, its cross-platform development framework business, to Finland-based software services company, Digia. The companies did not disclose the terms of the deal or a sales price. Digia acquired a portion of Qt from Nokia last year. This transaction completes the changeover. Qt allows …

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Android Jelly Bean shown running on first ever Android phone

Here’s a mid-week feat of heroic hacking — ambitious Android tinkerers have successfully got Android 4.1 Jelly Bean running on a T-Mobile G1, the first ever Android phone. The SoCal Devs collective posted about their success on XDA-Developers, and uploaded a video to YouTube. The clip shows the very latest version of Android chugging along on the first phone to …

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Google Translate for Android adds OCR

The newest update to Google Translate for Android adds Google Goggles‘ optical character recognition (OCR) technology, so you can translate text using only your device’s camera lens. Whereas previously you had to type, hand-write (onscreen), or say your text aloud in order to use the app, this new feature requires none of the above. To use the new OCR feature, …

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Samsung Galaxy S3 coming back in black, Facebook snaps hint

A black version of the Samsung Galaxy S3 has been revealed on Samsung’s own Facebook page, with the South Korean tech giant uploading a photo that appears to show a noir-hued edition of its quad-core smart phone. The picture, spied by ITProPortal, was uploaded to Samsung Mobile’s page and shows what looks very much like a black S3 next to a …

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iPhone 4S Olympics snaps put pro camera shots to shame

It’s no secret that mobile cameras are getting better and better, but a series of incredible Olympic snaps from one photojournalist prove just how far smart phone snappers have come. The Guardian‘s Dan Chung has been collecting his podium-placing pics on one page, documenting the London 2012 games in an effort to test how well a tiny mobile would fare. …

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Sonos adds Amazon Cloud Player

Sonos has announced that its streaming-music players now support Amazon Cloud Player, which joins other supported services including Spotify, Mog, and Songza. In July, after an agreement with the four major record companies, Amazon announced iTunes and Windows Media Player library “matching,” meaning users of the Amazon Cloud Player service can upload their libraries to the cloud. Amazon is offering …

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