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February, 2013
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8 February
Vodafone says 4G is for ‘technology freaks’, amid cash woes
Vodafone has seen its revenues slip, though the red-hued network insists it isn’t losing customers to speedy 4G services. Revenue dipped 5.2 per cent in the last three months of 2012, The Guardian reports — the biggest fall in over three years. The cash drop comes despite an increase in customer numbers however, as Vodafone’s total number of UK subscribers climbed 230,000 …
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8 February
How to customise the Kindle Fire HD’s carousel and favourites
Pick up a Kindle Fire HD and you’ll soon realise this is not Android as we know it. Amazon has very much put its own stamp on the OS, right from the first screen — ebooks, photos, music, video and the Amazon store itself are all given the same prominence as your apps. The central carousel is a jumbled collection …
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8 February
Spotify debuts music
Spotify released its music-streaming app in the Windows Phone 8 store today, according to the Windows Phone blog. The app is still in beta, which means Spotify isn’t done tweaking it just yet, but people can try it out. Users can stream Spotify songs over Wi-Fi or a 2.5G or 3G connection, according to the app’s description. The app lets …
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8 February
Samsung Galaxy S3 ‘Ultrafast’ on Three touts DC
Three is selling a second version of the Samsung Galaxy S3 — one that’s compatible with the network’s speedy DC-HSDPA technology. The new model, dubbed the Galaxy S3 ‘Ultrafast’, is nigh-on identical to the standard S3, but should benefit from Three’s speedier network tech, which the operator claims already covers 55 per cent of the UK. Speed-wise, DC-HSDPA isn’t quite …
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8 February
Social Frame HD turns Android tablets into photo frames
I like digital photo frames. I think the reason most people don’t is that it was always a hassle to add new pictures. The Kodak Pulse solved that problem nicely, as it could receive photos via e-mail and pull them directly from your Facebook account — but, alas, it’s a discontinued product. But here’s a thought: Why not turn a …
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8 February
Sony sprinkles Android 4.1 onto Xperia smartphones
Owners of Sony’s Xperia T and Xperia V can expect a dose of Android 4.1 sometime soon. Sony said yesterday that it’s begun deploying Jelly Bean to its initial batch of Xperia smartphones. The Xperia T and Xperia V are first on the list, while the Xperia TX is due sometime in March. The rollout will continue to ramp up …
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8 February
Wireless carriers again brace for massive Northeast storm
Wireless carriers hope they can weather Nemo better than Sandy. With a massive blizzard hitting the Northeast region just months after superstorm Sandy devastated the area, the carriers are working to avoid the same kind of mass outages that previously struck their networks and left hundreds of thousands of people without service. AT&T said it has an “arsenal of disaster …
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8 February
Apple and the iWatch conundrum
Ever since the sixth-generation iPod Nano, lots of people have thought that Apple making its own branded watch is not merely a smart potential move but simply a matter of time. No matter what some have recently argued, I doubt, however, that today’s Apple is hungry enough to create the fabled iWatch device. I’ve been covering the technology beat long …
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7 February
Sprint Q4 loss widens to $1.32B as Nextel customers flee
Sprint probably can’t wait to excise the Nextel part of its business. The Overland Park, Kan., wireless carrier reported hefty fourth-quarter subscriber losses on the Nextel side, with more than 1 million customers leaving the service, easily offsetting the gains made on its core Sprint business. In total, it lost 337,000 net customers. Sprint posted a loss of $1.32 billion, …
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