October, 2013

• 2 October

  Five apps to help you track your steps on the iPhone 5S

  

  The M7 coprocessor in the iPhone 5S is a fancy name for a chip that counts your steps and motion all day, every day. In order to see how many steps you’ve been taking, you’ll need to use an app specifically built for the iPhone 5S and the M7 chip. While we wait for more …

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• 2 October

  Qualcomm gambit: Apple 64

  

  A Qualcomm executive dissed Apple’s new 64-bit chip architecture, putting the San Diego company in a tough spot if it decides at some point to move to a 64-bit Snapdragon design. Here’s what Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at Qualcomm, said to the IDG News Service “I know there’s a lot of noise because Apple did …

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• 2 October

  BlackBerry concedes it can’t compete with iOS, Android

  

  BlackBerry has acknowledged that it just can’t compete with Apple and Android, even in international markets where it once was dominant. In a regulatory filing released late Tuesday to announce its second-quarter results, BlackBerry explained how weak demand for its products in the US has spread to other countries. The intense competition impacting the Company’s financial and operational results that …

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• 2 October

  Samsung Galaxy Gear could control your TV

  

  What to watch? Your wrist could be your new remote, as Samsung hints the Samsung Galaxy Gear smart watch could control your television. Samsung boss Ryan Bidan is looking to developers to come up with clever ways to combine the watch with TV-watching, with some new ideas potentially coming at the annual Samsung Developers Conference at the end of this …

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• 2 October

  iMessage isn’t working, Apple admits, fix coming soon

  

  Apple has a message for you — it knows iMessage is borked and it’s sorry. We reported yesterday that many iPhone and iPad users have had trouble with the instant messaging service since the upgrade to iOS 7. “We are aware of an issue that affects a fraction of a percent of our iMessage users, and we will have a …

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• 2 October

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  Related stories When Does My Phone Unlock? And How Can I Get My Carrier to Do It? Best T-Mobile Deals Available Now Best Internet Providers in Chicago If you have a hankering for the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy S4, or LG G2 but don’t want to fork over a ton of money up front, T-Mobile says it has a …

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• 2 October

  iPhone 5S 64

  

  The new iPhone‘s 64-bit chip is a “gimmick” with “zero benefit,” according to rival chipmaker Qualcomm. Qualcomm boss Anand Chandrasekher says the Apple A7 64-bit processor is a “marketing gimmick. There’s zero benefit a consumer gets from that”. “Predominantly… you need it for memory addressability beyond 4GB. That’s it,” says Chandrasekher. “You don’t really need it for performance, and the …

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• 2 October

  How Samsung cranked out the Galaxy Gear: The inside story

  

  JK Shin, the co-CEO of Samsung, just had to have the Galaxy Gear in lime green. Samsung executives had spent the last few weeks before the public unveiling of Gear finalizing various colors for the smartwatch band. At first, Samsung planned only to make Gear in black and white, to ease the production process. But some key execs were convinced that …

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• 2 October

  LG preps curved display smartphone, the G Flex

  

  Get ready for the LG G Flex. LG is preparing a smartphone with a curved display, CNET has learned. It confirms previous chatter about the company’s work with plastic OLED screen technology. Related stories Samsung, LG vie to unveil flexible display smartphones li> What it really takes to make a flexible phone (Smartphones Unlocked) Samsung’s teased curved phone may not …

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• 2 October

  BlackBerry said to be looking to sell its office space, too

  

  Now that BlackBerry has effectively sold itself to investors, the beleaguered handset maker is reportedly looking to unload property as well. The smartphone maker, which owns 20 buildings in Waterloo, Canada, has entered confidential discussions with real estate firms in an effort to get the greatest return in the shortest amount of time, sources tell The Globe and Mail. The …

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