Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen is ratcheting up the war of words with SoftBank over who is the better suitor for Sprint Nextel. After SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son referred to Dish’s unsolicited $25.5 billion bid to buy Sprint from under the Japanese carrier as “incomplete and illusory,” Ergen reiterated earlier arguments that a U.S. buyer …
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May, 2013
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1 May
LG’s curved OLED launches with Ewan McGregor’s help
LG has announced availability for the 55-inch curved OLED TV in Australia, which is the first country to be confirmed outside of South Korea, and introduced Ewan McGregor as its new brand ambassador. Though pricing wasn’t announced at the Australian launch of the LG 2013 range, the company said the TV will arrive before the end of the year. The …
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1 May
Star Trek Into Darkness is an enjoyable space romp, but avoid the 3D
Good news on the follow up to the brilliant 2009 reboot of Star Trek: for fans of futuristic action spectaculars, the new Star Trek film is well worth ponying up a tenner to see. I attended a screening of Star Trek Into Darkness in an IMAX cinema, which on the up side, meant I got to enjoy the amazing soundtrack …
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April, 2013
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30 April
Best Bluetooth accessories right now (roundup)
Do you like wires? Neither do we. And thankfully, you don’t really need them anymore when you’re using a smartphone. No matter your preference — iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry — any decent modern smartphone is equipped with wireless Bluetooth capability. In addition to hands-free calling with headsets and stereo headphones, phones can also be used as wireless music sources …
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30 April
Apple will no longer repair your 6
The original iPhone is now so old that Apple will soon regard it as “vintage” and “obsolete”, and will no longer provide repair parts or documentation. The venerable mobile is six years old — gosh, doesn’t time fly? It feels like only yesterday — and from 11 June this year it’ll be abandoned to fend for itself in the wilderness …
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30 April
Intel CEO favors SoftBank over Dish for Sprint takeover
Intel CEO Paul Otellini is throwing his weight behind SoftBank in the bidding war for Sprint, according to Reuters. Otellini sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski giving word that he favored SoftBank, a wireless carrier based in Japan, over Dish for the Sprint takeover offer. Sprint has been in talks with SoftBank since last October regarding …
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30 April
Sony Xperia SP glams up Android, shimmies to UK for £250
Sony’s new Android phone, the Xperia SP, has a disco-flavoured coloured light strip and it’s partying it up right now on Orange and T-Mobile for £250 pay as you go. The SP’s more fun than your usual dowdy mid-range blower, with a see-through strip underneath the screen that glows different colours. It’s part notification light, part glitter ball — it’ll …
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30 April
BlackBerry CEO says tablets will be useless in five years
BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins is not a fan of tablets. Heins questioned the need for the mobile devices in an interview with Bloomberg on Monday. “In five years I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore,” he said to Bloomberg. Related stories Best Password Manager to Use for 2022 Your Phone Screen Is Gross. Here’s How …
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30 April
Nokia to invest in fancy camera tech to boost Lumia PureView
Nokia has its eyes on brand-new camera tech in a bid to win back customers from the smart phone competition. The Finnish phone fabricator is planning to invest in Pelican Imaging, a California based startup that specialises in developing new camera technology, Bloomberg reports. Pelican’s cameras not only take high-quality photos, they also allow you to adjust and refocus your …
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30 April
Galaxy S4 price to drop 25 per cent in 6 months, stats say
Waiting a few months before buying the Galaxy S4 could save you a packet, number-crunchers reckon. The Galaxy S4 could be sporting a discount of up to 15 per cent within the next three months, and have its SIM-free price slashed by a quarter within half a year, stats from price-comparison bods Idealo suggest. The figures come from monitoring the average …
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