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Speaking in Mexico City, Steve Wozniak had a few choice things to say about Apple. As reported by The Economic Times, Wozniak defended the company saying that this down time is expected because it is in between innovations. “I think Apple is in one of these waiting periods waiting for the next big direction. You can’t…
Samsung has a big advertising budget which means it can create gems like this Galaxy S4 ad below. Crafted specifically for Samsung Iceland, the commercial features apples, sheep and dancing black-clothed ninjas. Check it out below and let us now in the comments what you think about this example of Samsung’s international marketing push.
Security engineer Ben Lincoln claims that some Motorola phones are collecting your data and sending it back unencrypted to the handset manufacturer. He discovered this data collection on his Droid X2 and has since found that other Motorola Android phones do this as well. The handsets allegedly gather GPS data from photos, user names, passwords, email addresses…
Boston University has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple alleging the Cupertino company is using BU technology in its iPhone 5, iPad and MacBook Air. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts. The patent in question involves a method of making a gallium nitride thin film semiconductor device. It was…
A security flaw in Skype version 3.2.0.6673 could enable a thief or hacker to get around your Android lockscreen, according to a report in ThreatPost.. The exploit was found by xda-developer member Pulser, who tested it on the Sony Xperia Z, Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and Huawei’s Premia 4G. The exploit requires the attacker to have two…
John Sculley will forever be known as the CEO who ousted Steve Jobs from his position as Macintosh head in 1985. Now working as a partner at healthcare investment firm Sculley Brothers, Sculley is a fan of the BlackBerry platform and its Qwerty keyboard-focused handsets. Speaking to Bloomberg about the struggling Canadian handset manufacturer, Sculley…
Sprint quietly shut down its Nextel network over the weekend, putting an end to its eight year investment in the push-to-talk service. According to the Wall Street Journal, Sprint started shutting down the service with the release of a software patch that disabled calls on the network. A second patch turned off the radios on…
It’s been a while since Motorola released a new Android smartphone, but rumors suggest the handset maker is gearing up to release a few new phones for Verizon Wireless. Evleaks originally claimed that Verizon and Motorola were working on the Droid Ultra along with the Droid Mini and the Droid Maxx. A slip on Motorola’s part…
HP is rethinking its mobile strategy and may get back into the smartphone business. Speaking to The Indian Express, HP Senior Director Consumer PC and Media Tablets Asia Pacific Yam Su Yin said the company would be foolish to ignore the smartphone market and was looking to produce a smartphone that would offer a “differentiated…
A photo posted to twitter suggests the developer community is making progress towards an iOS 7 jailbreak. The Twitter image posted by jailbreak developer Ryan Petrich shows Activator, a jailbreak tweak, running on iOS 7. Presumably, Petrich was able to jailbreak his device and tried to run the jailbreak software. The software threw an error…