Christmastime is a time of giving. So it’s natural that if you got a shiny new smartphone, you’d want to give your old one away to a friend or family member. But be careful to whom you bestow this present. If the lucky recipient of your generous gift doesn’t already have a smartphone and a …
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28 December
New York Times mistakenly e
Editor’s note: The headline and story have been updated to reflect the latest news. The New York Times is now saying that a believed-to-be bogus e-mail that told millions of subscribers that their subscriptions had been canceled actually did come from the newspaper company. But the e-mail, which was meant for only 300 recipients, was instead sent to more than …
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28 December
Samsung may offer a taste of Ice Cream Sandwich to the Galaxy
Will they or won’t they? That’s the question Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab customers are asking with respect to whether Samsung will offer them the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update. Samsung will likely not update those devices to ICS, but older Galaxy owners may not be entirely out of luck. There is apparently still a chance that Samsung …
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28 December
Verizon’s network suffers third outage this month
Verizon’s network has once again been hit with downtime in the U.S., with customers reporting that their phones are unable to get a data connection. Droid Life, which picked up on the outage, says that customers have been having issues connecting to Verizon’s 3G and 4G LTE networks in various major cities across the U.S. including New York, San Francisco, …
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28 December
Microsoft eyeing cloud backup service for its phones
Microsoft aims to help Windows Phone owners safely store their personal data on its servers as part of a future service. An software engineering job listing picked up by WMPoweruser seeks someone to join its “Windows Phone Backup, Migrate, and Restore team.” “Our goal is to ensure that no matter if someone loses their phone, drops their phone in a …
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28 December
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The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team warned this week of a security flaw in a popular tool intended to make it easier to add additional devices to a secure Wi-Fi network. GearXS On Tuesday, the organization, known as US-CERT, cited findings from security researcher Stefan Viehbock, who uncovered the security hole in the so-called Wi-Fi Protected Set-up, or WPS, protocol, …
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27 December
Windows Phone Marketplace hits 50,000
Nearly a year and two months after its launch, Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace has hit a new milestone. The collection of apps and games that run on Microsoft’s Windows Phone devices now sits north of 50,000 applications, according to a count by the blog All About Windows Phone. More than a third of those were added in the past three …
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27 December
Nokia Lumia 800 hits FCC, CES bound?
With just two weeks until CES, most of the wireless industry is busy making final plans. We’ve already told you what we think will happen with tablets and smartphones in Las Vegas, and if carriers and manufacturers have their way, we won’t know anything official until the show begins. Forgive me, but patience is not a virtue in this case. …
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27 December
Samsung said to be rethinking Android 4.0 upgrade for Galaxy S
Samsung dropped a bit of bad news last Friday when it announced on one of its Korean promotional blogs that it wouldn’t be bringing Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) to its Galaxy S smartphone or its 7-inch Galaxy Tab. Users understandably cried foul and chatter of Android fragmentation surfaced again, and the company may be feeling the heat. Though Sammy …
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27 December
Android, iOS activations hit record on Christmas. Again
People unwrapping new smartphones with Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS as part of the Christmas holiday once again led to record activations and app downloads this year, says mobile analytics firm Flurry. In a report issued today, Flurry says that the number of Android and iOS devices activated on Christmas Day jumped 353 percent over the number of activations from …
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