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According to a report in Bloomberg, flexible displays using Corning’s Willow material won’t be available commercially for at least three years. James Clappin, president of Corning Glass, said in a Beijing interview that it will take a while for vendors to use the innovative flexible glass. “People are not accustomed to glass you roll up,”…
One of the compelling features of HTC’s One handset is Zoe, a photo collage feature that records video along with photos and then mixes them together into a collage with background music. It sounds gimmicky, but we were impressed with the feature when we reviewed the HTC One earlier this month. Now that the One…
Earlier today, Samsung tweeted a teaser image that suggests it has more than just a press event planned for its big Galaxy S IV unveiling. The poster invites people to join Samsung in Times Square on the same day and at the same time the company is holding its press event nearby. We don’t know…
Pandora is struggling to pay royalty fees and it looking to mitigate that cost by limiting the amount of time mobile users on a free account can listen to music. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Pandora will limit mobile listening on a free account to 40 hours each month. This change should only…
Falcon Pro developer Joaquim Vergès is in a tight spot. His popular Android twitter client is booming, but he has hit the dreaded 100,000 Twitter token limit. Twitter set this limit last year to discourage developers from creating twitter clients that are too similar to its own clients. Vergès has petitioned Twitter to boost his token…
James Cheshire, Ed Manley, and Oliver O’Brien of the University College London’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) thave eamed up with John Barratt of Trendsmap to create a map of New York that shows the languages of the tweets that are flowing out from the city. Though 95% of tweets in New York are…
Apple’s iCloud service is down this morning in an outage that is affecting 50% of all iCloud users. According to Apple’s system status webpage, the downtime is affecting all aspects of iCloud including Mail, iTunes Match, account logins and more. This is the second outage affecting iCloud and other Apple online services in a week.…
Samsung and Apple both prepared high-profile commercials that aired last night during the Oscars. As noted by Apple 2.0, each company took a different approach in how they spent their advertising dollars. Samsung used storytelling and a celebrities to chronicle the development of the Unicorn Apocalypse game in six ads that aired throughout the Oscars.…
According to multiple reports, LG is poised to buy webOS from HP. Developed by Palm, webOS was well-regarded when it launched, but never gained traction against Android and iOS. The mobile operating system, along with the rest of Palm, was purchased by HP and promptly discarded when Leo Apotheker took over as CEO of HP.…
In a short but sweet press release, T-Mobile confirmed it will start selling the Lumia 521, a variant of the newly announced entry-level Lumia 520. It’s an affordable phone that’ll fit in nicely with T-Mobile’s budget plans and its no-contract approach to handset pricing and subsidies. Additional details, including device availability and specifics on pricing, will…