Sprint wants you to know that although it’s far behind AT&T and especially Verizon in deploying its 4G LTE network, the carrier is hard at work. This morning, Sprint announced its plan to roll out LTE in over 100 more cities “in the coming months” where it currently offers 3G coverage — including Boston, Chicago, …
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10 September
Kindle for Mac App Store gets performance boost
Amazon has updated its OS X app with some new features readers should find useful. First up, Amazon’s new 1.10.3 version of Kindle comes with support for more OS X gestures, including panning and swiping. The app now supports Amazon’s Kindle Format 8 books, which deliver some improved formatting options. Heavy readers will be happy to discover that the app …
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10 September
Apple cuts Samsung memory orders for iPhone
Apple has reduced its orders for mobile phone memory chips from Samsung, its arch rival, following the $1bn court case between the two. The Californian company is tapping up Toshiba, Elpida Memory, and Korea’s SK Hynix to provide more chips in place of Samsung’s, Reuters reports. Though it hasn’t cut off Samsung altogether. “Samsung is still in the list of …
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10 September
Nokia culpa: Phony Lumia 920 video prompts ethics probe
Nokia committed a major gaffe in promoting its Lumia 920, and now the company says it’s trying to figure out why. Last week, the company unveiled its new Windows 8 Phone handsets, with the Lumia 920 starring as its flagship device. Touting the phone’s optical image stabilization (OIS), Nokia released a promotional clip supposedly comparing video shot by the 920 …
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10 September
Teens grab up smartphones faster than other age groups
Even though it doesn’t really come as a surprise to hear that teenagers love smartphones, there’s now new data to back up all previous assumptions. Young adults aged 25 to 34 own smartphones more than any other age group with 74 percent of the market, according to a new study by Nielsen, which included interviews with 20,000 mobile users in …
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9 September
Broken Kindle screens as art
(Credit: Silvio Lorusso and Sebastian Schmieg) A new book catalogues a problem that has plagued Kindle users the world over. We know that feeling. You know: the sinking dread when you pull your Kindle out of your bag, only to see the screen displaying some strangeness, as though your library has been taken over by something out of Lovecraft. The …
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9 September
Hoyts moves into streaming video
The Australian cinema giant is set to launch the Hoyts Stream movie and TV service in early 2013. Hoyts Stream will join Cinema and Kiosk. (Credit: Hoyts) Australia’s oldest cinema brand, Hoyts, will be expanding its range of products to include Hoyts Stream, a new pay-as-you-go, multi-device video-streaming service. Stream will be joining Hoyt’s two other consumer video offerings — …
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9 September
Quickflix inks new content deals
Quickflix has announced a host of new content partners, which will provide streaming video for pay-per-view services. (Credit: Quickflix) The Walt Disney Company Australia and Warner Bros Entertainment Australia head up a partner list that also includes Umbrella Entertainment, Accent Film, Bounty Films, Gryphon Entertainment, Transmission Films and cult/anime expert Madman Entertainment. The new content will be available on Quickflix …
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8 September
Amazon backtracks, will offer $15 opt
The ability to opt out of ads is coming to the Kindle Fire tablets after all. James Martin/CNET It looks like you’ll be able to opt out of the ads on the new Kindle Fire tablets after all. I just received this e-mail from an Amazon spokesperson: I wanted to let you know that with Kindle Fire HD there will …
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8 September
Rock stars put their ears in audiologist Julie Glick’s hands
I met Julie Glick a few months ago with some folks from Ultimate Ears at a Head-Fi meeting in NY. UE was promoting a new set of custom-molded in-ear headphones, the Personal Reference Monitors, which are just now entering full production. In her NYC office, Glick can fully demonstrate these unique headphones, which are not only custom-molded to your ears …
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