Samsung says that its Galaxy S3 has been exonerated following an earlier report of it burning up. According to the company, it hired a third-party organization, Fire Investigations U.K., to inspect the damaged device. That investigation found that the trouble occurred in June after an “energy source” was used to heat the device and cause …
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The biggest cinema in the land has a new screen. The BFI has given us a revealing glimpse behind the scenes as 800kg of perforated vinyl measuring 26m wide and 20m high replaces the old screen, bringing The Amazing Spider-Man swinging into action this week. Check out the fascinating photos of the new screen’s arrival below. The new screen was …
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Research In Motion finally has some good numbers to offset its recent wave of bad ones. The handset maker announced Friday that its BlackBerry App World had reached the 3 billion download mark — a billion of those in just the last six months. To reach that number, customers were downloading app at the rate of about 2.5 million per …
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Wireless carriers say they received 1.3 million requests last year from law enforcement agencies for subscriber text messages, caller locations, and other information, reflecting a steady increase during the past five years. Carriers’ responses to a congressional inquiry, as reported by the New York Times, reveal that thousands of records were turned over on a daily basis in response to …
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The Samsung Galaxy S III that reportedly “exploded” in a car charger, according to its owner, had actually been placed in a microwave. One of the photos posted to the Boards.ie forums after the original post about the damage. (Credit: Boards.ie) Following the report of damage on an Irish bulletin board (Google cached) by forum member “dillo2k10”, Samsung retrieved the …
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Samsung is expected to announce an update to its super-sized Galaxy Note, with the sequel sporting a larger display, a faster processor and the latest version of the Android OS. The original Galaxy Note with stylus.(Credit: CNET) According to Korean site MK Business News, the Galaxy Note 2 will be announced at the IFA electronics show in Berlin, Germany, at …
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Ex-Nokia employees have banded together to form a new start-up company, with plans to release a smartphone based on the Nokia-developed MeeGo operating system. (Credit: Nokia) Former MeeGo engineer Marc Dillon will serve as the chief operating officer of the company, which is called Jolla, leading a team of “directors and core professionals from Nokia’s MeeGo N9 organisation”, according to …
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High-flying skydive stunts! Steering-wheel voice commands! Predictive search that knows your life! That was June for us, one big sneak peek of the mobile platform future, a flurry of OS features and software specs that Apple, Google, Microsoft, and RIM lobbed at us from San Francisco area events all in the same month. It was so busy around here, we …
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A group of former Nokia employees has formed a company with the goal of bringing to market a smartphone powered by software discarded by their former employer. The Finnish startup Jolla plans to base its handsets on the defunct Meego operating system, which was developed in partnership with Intel but was essentially left for dead when Nokia opted to drop …
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The harried Galaxy Nexus smartphone is again available for purchase in the Google Play store. iPhone, left, Google phone, right. On June 29, a judge in a lower court granted Apple’s request for a pretrial injunction against U.S. sales of the Samsung-made, Android-running smartphone while the court determines whether the device infringes the patents Apple claims it does. Samsung appealed, …
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