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A new report shows that Korean tech giant, Samsung has edged ahead of Apple in the handset market. Strategy Analytics’ Neil Mawston gave the gist of the firm’s new report in a blog post. Samsung posted $5.2 billion in handset profits in Q2 2013, eclipsing Apple’s $4.6 billion. Mawston chalks Samsung’s growing profits up to…
An FCC document leaked today that hints that the much speculated about Moto X will be coming to T-Mobile. Earlier reports suggested that the Moto X might not be available on T-Mobile, but a variant of Motorola’s new smartphone that appears to be compatible with T-Mobile showed up in an FCC filing, making a strong case…
Microsoft has locked down more details for its event at the upcoming Gamescom 2013 conference in Germany. Microsoft will host a Showcase Event on Aug. 20, featuring the Xbox One. The recently announced self publishing policies on the Xbox One will be outlined as well. Microsoft corporate vice presidents Phil Spencer and Phil Harrison will…
Earlier this month a federal judge ruled that Apple was guilty of violating US antitrust law by “playing a central role” in a “conspiracy” to artificially and illegally raise the price of ebooks to harm competitors and consumers. Now it looks like Cupertino might be on the hook for as much as $500 million in…
At the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year, Google showed off a prototype device to a select few. Shown in secret, the device was a set-top box similar to an Apple TV. Whether or not this design was scrapped or is still in development remains to be seen. According to the Wall Street Journal, the…
Redditor samtate discovered a pretty amazing easter egg in Google Play Games. Just enter in the Konami code (hint: just start swiping) from within the app! Here’s the simple instructions from samtate’s reddit post: Go onto the “Play Now” screen. Swipe Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right (Konami Code) Press B, A, Start in…
It looks like the LG G2 news keeps coming. Earlier today, what appeared to be an AT&T LG G2 passed through the FCC. Now a new leak points to the G2 coming to Verizon as well! Korean news outfit, The Kyunghyang Shinmun has leaked information supposedly sent down from David Jung, LG Electronics CFO. Jung laid…
Most gamers have spent countless hours painting corridors with the guts of vicious aliens, zombies, pig cops or cacodemons. We’ve blasted BFGs into huge crowds of enemies and silently snuck up behind others and slit their throats. We’ve done it to save the world, or recover our loved ones – we acted in honor. With the…
It looks like Microsoft is backtracking on another of its unpopular policies regarding its new console, the Xbox One. Microsoft has released news today that the Xbox One will be open to indie development and self publishing, in major contradiction to the company’s previous policy of tightly curated indie releases. Microsoft hasn’t released all the…
The pre orders for both the PS4 and Xbox One are going quick, and most retailers exhausted the ones they had available in the last couple weeks. But Amazon’s managed to scrounge up some PS4 pre orders today and units are moving quick. Amazon has the Standard Edition, which contains the console, Dualshock 4, HDMI…