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Your weekend homework: review the apps you love, fight the jerky types

Posted April 26, 2013 - 5:27 pm

Fight the system that listens to hair-trigger angry reviewers but allows quietly happy users to be unheard. Write a good review for an app you use, unprompted.
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How to Uninstall Facebook Home in case you install it accidentally

Posted April 12, 2013 - 3:40 pm

Always be prepared in case you suffer a moment of poor judgment when it comes to installing Facebook Home.
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Samsung Electronics sees operating profit jump on mobile sales

Posted April 5, 2013 - 8:12 am

Samsung Electronics said today that it expects a first-quarter operating profit of between 8.5 trillion won and 8.9 trillion won (US$7.6 billion to $8 billion), a sharp increase of at least 49 percent from a year earlier.
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Is Amazon working on a Kindle smartphone?

Posted April 2, 2013 - 2:23 pm

Amazon may be building a Kindle smartphone on a custom version of Android to be launched in the second half of 2013.
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Analyst: iPhone price pressure means smartphone profits have peaked

Posted April 2, 2013 - 2:05 pm

The overall profitability of the smartphone market hit its apex in 2012, according to a prominent equity analyst.
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Leaked BlackBerry roadmap reveals two phablets, widescreen tablet in coming year

Posted April 1, 2013 - 9:56 am

BlackBerry plans to release a larger tablet and two phone-tablets, or phablets, over the next year, according to a leaked roadmap presentation slide.
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Spotlight on mobility

Posted April 1, 2013 - 9:38 am

By all accounts, the move to mobile is happening faster than anyone expected -- and faster than many companies are prepared for. Here's a snapshot of the momentum in the mobile market.
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Mobile hardware is going to disappear

Posted March 20, 2013 - 11:06 am

What's next for smartphones? Perhaps a cloak of invisibility. Apple, Samsung and Google are doing their best to make the hardware go away.
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Lawmakers to cops: Don’t mess with Texas

Posted March 7, 2013 - 6:28 pm

Lone Star legislators have introduced the toughest location privacy laws yet. Cops want to know where you've been? They'd better have a warrant.
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Engineers deconstruct smartphones to find new uses

Posted February 27, 2013 - 7:44 am

Dismantling smartphones and reusing the components is easier and cheaper than designing new devices from scratch
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How to improve your chances of recovering a lost Android phone

Posted February 20, 2013 - 9:45 pm

By adding some contact info to the lock screen, you might just help an Honest Joe return your lost precious.
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Pre-paid smartphone plans that do not suck, part 1

Posted February 8, 2013 - 1:43 pm

Pre-paid must seem to some (including me, until today) like the realm of the cheap phones running on choked data. But, oh, the things you can do without a contract.
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How to monitor and manage your PC from any smartphone or tablet

Posted February 2, 2013 - 8:44 am

It's 2013, and computing has entered a new age of mobility. If you're still wasting time trudging over to your PCs to perform routine maintenance, check for software updates, and power down every night, you haven't gotten with the program.
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More of this, please: Verizon turning 3G network into pre-paid realm

Posted February 1, 2013 - 5:09 pm

I think no-contract, $60, 3G-powered plans are an entirely sensible and usable thing, especially if the used smartphone market can step up.
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Will the Samsung Galaxy SIV be announced during the Super Bowl?

Posted January 31, 2013 - 12:51 pm

Oh, great, now I have to watch a football game for the commercials.
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How Apple, Google and Samsung could lose the smartphone market

Posted January 28, 2013 - 1:02 pm

Mobile phone competition intensifies. Linux-based platforms are gunning for iOS and Android, and Chinese companies want to price the iPhone and the Galaxy S line out of the market.
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Can you spot the 10 security mistakes in this workspace?

Posted January 25, 2013 - 9:00 am

This workspace contains 10 security mistakes. Can you spot the errors that put confidential information at risk?
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Samsung tops smartphone and overall handsets market in Q4

Posted January 25, 2013 - 1:59 am

Samsung led both the smartphone and overall handsets market in the fourth quarter, though analysts' estimates of shipments and market share varied.
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Mozilla announces Keon and Peak Firefox OS smartphones

Posted January 24, 2013 - 3:42 pm

Mozilla has revealed its first pair of smartphones running its Firefox operating system.
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Attention shoppers: Retailers can now track you across the mall

Posted January 17, 2013 - 1:51 pm

Your favorite big box retailer or discount warehouse will soon be able to track your movements via your smartphone. Meet the next big thing in analytics: You.
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Based on CES 2013, manufacturers think we're all klutzes

Posted January 10, 2013 - 12:42 pm

One of the themes of this year’s CES is making products that protect your smartphone or tablet from… you
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How Americans consumed media in 2012

Posted January 9, 2013 - 12:55 pm

While the companies at CES show off all of their new media consumption toys, Neilsen looks back on how Americans consumed media in 2012
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ZTE unveils big-screen smartphone, could be coming to US and Europe

Posted January 8, 2013 - 8:56 pm

Jumping on the big-screen smartphone bandwagon at CES, China's ZTE on Tuesday unveiled a flagship Android phone with a 5-inch full HD display.
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Tech blunders, drama, comedy!

Posted January 7, 2013 - 9:00 am

IT pros share behind-the-scene stories of the job, from personal bloopers to bureaucratic nonsense
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Cool gadgets and hot tech that will shine at CES 2013

Posted January 5, 2013 - 8:25 am

With less than a week to go before this year's International CES Show in Las Vegas commences, it's unclear which new products will generate the most buzz among attendees of the massive trade show. However, Ultra HDTVs, Windows 8 tablets, smart appliances, and smartphone apps figure to fight for center stage.
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