It’s no secret that some people take their mobile OSes very personally — just as your parents weren’t likely to buy you both a Super Nintendo and a Sega Genesis, you’re probably not going to take out multiple phone contracts…
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Homebrew neuroscience: the rise of ‘stupid games’
The proliferation of tiny, super-powered gaming consoles (otherwise known as smartphones) has given rise to the “stupid game” — the bite-sized morsel we play when we’re not doing other, more important things. This New York T…
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Nokia Lumia 900 teardown reveals mediocre hardware
Nokia and Microsoft are betting big on the Lumia 900, hoping the device will help make a name for Windows Phone in the United States. The handset will be exclusively offered by AT&T for a mere $99.99 with a new two-year agreement on April 8th. TechRepublic on Tuesday cracked open the device and examined its internal components. The conclusion: mediocre hardware is the reasons for its low price. With almost every other competing smartphone offering dual-core or quad-core processors, Nokia instead chose a single-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S2 chipset clocked at 1.4 GHz. The Lumia has a smaller battery, lower resolution display and less RAM than most of its competitors as well. The handset is also thicker and heavier than most,
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Google planning to use thermal storage system in its new Taiwan data center
Google is well-known for using creative and green initiatives in its data centers, and its newest data center in Taiwan will be no exception. This facility will take advantage of a thermal energy storage system to reduce air condi…
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PS3 Media Server, ICS on the Galaxy Note [From the Forums]
It has been a day full of updates and lots of talk of new devices. If you missed out on anything, get yourself caught up both here on the blogs and in the Android Central forums. Check out some of the threads below to get yourself started: Android C…
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LightSquared ‘seriously considering’ voluntary bankruptcy in wake of failed network plans
Things have been looking grim for LightSquared since its ambitions to build a new LTE network were thwarted by the FCC, and now the hedge fund manager behind the company says he is considering a voluntary bankruptcy. “There are ar…
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HP Labs head Prith Banerjee becomes latest exec to depart the company
In November 2009, he told Sramana Mitra he had “the most fantastic job in the world,” but Prith Banerjee, head of Hewlett-Packard’s research division HP Labs, is apparently departing the company. AllThingsD obtained an internal me…
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Redditor Creates Mock-Up Of Facebook For ICS, We Can Only Drool
Facebook’s current Android app has become the subject of much hatred from the Android community – for one thing, it rarely works properly (if at all); for another, its looks have become quite stale. Sadly, we still haven’t seen any plans for futu…
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DROID RAZR/MAXX Soak Test Set To Begin Tomorrow, But It’s Not Ice Cream Sandwich
DROID RAZR and RAZR MAXX users excited for an Ice Cream Sandwich update by last week’s Best Buy screenshot should brace themselves for some bad news – it looks like the aforementioned devices won’t be getting Ice Cream Sandwich just yet after all.Acc…
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Samsung planning mobile ad platform to rival Google and Apple
Samsung on Tuesday confirmed that it is teaming up with OpenX Technologies to create a mobile ad platform that will rival Google and Apple, The Wall Street Journal reported. The service will be called Samsung AdHub Market and will enable companies to place advertisements on Samsung phones and tablets beginning in the second half of the year. Potential advertisers will be able to purchase ad space on mobile devices through both app developers and Samsung, and pricing details are not yet known. “This is the first time any device manufacturer has entered the ad tech space in this way,” said OpenX Chief Executive Tim Cadogan. “It is becoming very clear to the principals in the mobile space that advertising is
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