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Samsung’s troubled Tizen software ready for prime time on TVs

Enlarge ImageSamsung’s 2015 smart TVs will run Tizen software, which boasts a simplified user interface, pictured here. Samsung LAS VEGAS — Samsung’s Tizen operating system may still be a no-show in smartphones, but millions of consumers will soon use the software in their homes — possibly without even knowing it. Starting this year, all of Samsung’s new smart TVs will …

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Why is the FCC considering a new system for phone number portability? No good reason

Building high-volume, complex information systems is hard. But when time is limited and the client is the federal government, as we learned most recently and most painfully with the failed launch of Healthcare.gov, it’s nearly impossible. Yet with only six months remaining on the contract with its longtime supplier, the Federal Communications Commission seems on the verge of repeating past …

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