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Samsung Smart TV platform installed base passes two million, adds BBC News app
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While finding out precisely how many people are actually using its apps (over 100 million downloaded) is still tricky, Samsung has proudly announced there are over two million units out there packing its Smart TV platform. That count includes over 730,000 units in North America alone, and according to the company, outpaces the initial uptake of LED lit TVs. Of course, having a Samsung Apps store is nothing without apps to put in it, and over the UK there's a new BBC News app that is currently available exclusively on the Samsung platform.
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Verizon Names More LTE Networks to Arrive July 21
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Verizon Wireless today announced another round of markets that will receive access to Long Term Evolution 4G starting July 21. The new markets include Huntsville, Ala.; Augusta, Ga.; Scranton Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Springfield, Mass.; Raleigh-Durham, Greensboro-Winston, and Salem-High Point, N.C; and Knoxville, Tenn. Verizon also today announced that the footprint of its LTE network in the Los Angeles and San Diego markets will be expanded on July 21.
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Android gets new increasingly advanced malware
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Lookout is now warning us about a new threat that could possibly infect our Android phones. The latest development is a new type of malware that bypasses Google’s jurisdiction to get direct access to your phone. It’s scary stuff.
Last month Google remotely removed more than 25 applications from the market on the conviction that these were hiding a malware called DroidDream within its files. After Google handled the applications, these same guys went on to develop this new browser-based malware that is more advanced than any other ever developed for a mobile phone.
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Seesmic Twitter app drops BlackBerry support, RIM's frown sags even lower
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The third-party app experience has always seemed like an afterthought for RIM. Lousy selection and a half-baked install process are just some of the issues plaguing BlackBerry owners and developers, but there's no blow stronger in the app world than when a dev drops support for a platform, after dedicating the resources necessary to bring a product to market in the first place.
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AT&T unveils new $50 unlimited pre-paid plan
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AT&T has announced a new addition to its GoPhone pre-paid service: a $50 per month unlimited plan. The plan, which is only available to feature phone and messaging phone users (sorry, no smartphone love here), offers unlimited talk, text, and web usage for a flat rate. It is very similar to the unlimited plans offered by Boost and other pre-paid carriers. The unlimited GoPhone plan features international text messaging to Mexico,Canada, and over 100 other countries as well. Users can sign up for the new plan online, over the phone, or in-store now.
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Apple Joins Board of Bluetooth SIG
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The Bluetooth Special Interest Group today announced two new board members, Apple and Nordic Semiconductor. The Bluetooth SIG explains that Apple and Nordic Semiconductor will help evolve the way Bluetooth 4.0 is used at the platform, application, and sensor levels, as well as help ensure compatibility between Bluetooth devices. Other members of the board include Intel, Motorola, Lenovo, Nokia, Microsoft, Ericsson, and Toshiba. Apple and Nordic's appointments are effective July 1 and will last for two years.
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Apple may have iOS powered TV planned for fall launch
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Apple may have an iOS powered TV in the works. According to Daily Tech, one former Apple executive recently said that customers will soon be able to “go into an Apple retail store and be able to walk out with a TV. It’s perfect.” Apple won’t build the televisions itself, though. Instead a manufacturer like Samsung may be behind the product. The former exec also said that the Cupertino-based firm will “blow Netflix and all those other guys away,” so we presume there’s a connected aspect that will allow users to access iTunes content in a manner similar to the current Apple TV product. Apple has been rumored to be working on a connected television numerous times in the past, though obviously n...
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iOS5 faster than Mango at HTML5 rendering? Wrong!
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Winrumors have claimed that the latest version of iOS5 has overtaken Windows Phone 7 Mango in the HTML5 speed rendering stakes, going from 1-2 fps to 32 fps, faster than the 25 fps demonstrated for Mango at MIX11.
What Tom has not taken into account was that Mango has continued to improve itself, and in testing done by The Next Web Windows Phone 7 repeatedly hit 41 FPS, and this is of course with a Snapdragon processor generations older than that in the iPhone 4.
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Nexus S hacked and tweaked to slaughter benchmarks, reality be damned
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It's always a good idea to take benchmarks with a grain of salt -- their synthetic tests don't always match up with real-world performance. But, we wouldn't blame you if you wrote them off completely after spying these results from Android Community forum member Simms22. Simms took his Nexus S, blessed it with a little Cyanogen Mod 7 pixie dust, overclocked it to 1.544GHz, and made a few other tweaks for good measure.
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Will the Nokia N9 end up in more than 23 countries?
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Last night's introduction of the MeeGo powered Nokia N9 set hearts aflutterin' in many countries, including the U.S. where the initial response was that the device is one sexy handset with the lack of any front-facing buttons at all. With the manufacturer having some problems competing in the U.S. and dropping from its perch as the largest smartphone manufacturer Stateside-a position it had held for the last 14 years-to number three, a launch of the N9 in the U.S. is of vital importance to the manufacturer.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 headed to Sprint on June 24
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Sprint has just announced that it will be carrying the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 beginning June 24. The carrier will be stocking non-3G, Wi-Fi-only versions, much like the way it carries non-3G versions of the Motorola XOOM and BlackBerry PlayBook. The carrier says that the 16GB edition of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 will be available for $499.99. It is the same version of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 that hit retail shelves last weekend. The tablet will be available online, in-store, and through telesales.
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Android 3.2 Honeycomb due soon, includes support for 7-inch screens, Qualcomm chips
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Yesterday's launch of the Huawei MediaPad included the tidbit of news that Android 3.2 Honeycomb is coming down the pipeline, and now we have a bit more info on the latest version of Google's tablet OS - thanks to This Is My Next.
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BlackBerry Tablet OS for PlayBook updated to 1.0.6, still no email
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Last night Research In Motion pushed out an update for the BlackBerry Tablet OS that powers the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, bringing the version up to 1.0.6.2390. This update brought along Adobe Flash Player 10.3 and Adobe AIR 2.7, along with security and bug fixes for Adobe Flash Player. RIM is claiming that the PlayBook will support Flash better than ever, and that the Adobe AIR 2.7 support will open up the platform to new applications that are built for AIR 2.7. Unfortunately, that's it as far as new stuff goes. We're still waiting for that promised email client, RIM.
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Huawei M886 Glory runs Gingerbread on a 1.4GHz chip, coming to Cricket for $299
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Huawei partnering with Cricket Wireless might not sound like a team bringing earthshattering news, but for the budget-savvy consumer they just did – the Huawei M886 Glory is an Android handset running on a 1.4GHz Qualcomm MSM8655T chip all for the unmatched price tag of $299off contract. Did we mention the 4-inch screen with cream of the crop resolution of 480x854 pixels, adornished with an 8-megapixel auto-focus camera with flash and the promise for swift update to the upcoming Android Ice Cream Sandwich? Currently, the Huawei Glory runs Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread.
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Apple introduces updated Time Capsule, now with 3TB of storage
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Apple just took the wraps off of its new 3TB Time Capsule automatic wireless backup hard drive. The company said that it will continue to offer a 2TB version of its Time Capsule alongside the new 3TB version, and it doesn’t look like there are any other differentiating specs. Apple appears to have also quietly updated its Airport Extreme product with support for up to 450Mbps file transfers over both 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequency bands, and the website has also been refreshed a bit.
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