Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced that it will launch new 4K digital service next month. Dubbed as ‘Ultra’, the 4K streaming service will be unveiled on April 4 on new Sony 4K television models in the United States.
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The Apple-FBI legal battle is over after months of court motions and hearings. The Department of Justice (DoJ) has dropped its case against Apple as the FBI has unlocked San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. Continue reading “FBI gains access to locked iPhone, withdraws case against Apple”
India has become the second largest smartphone market in the world, according to Counterpoint’s Market Monitor service. The country surpassed US in terms of active unique smartphone user base with over 220 million users.
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It looks like Samsung is not ready to budge and accept defeat in it on-going patent infringement battle with Apple. The South Korean smartphone maker has taken the $548M Apple patent lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court.
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Xiaomi’s YI Action Camera that was launched in March this year in China is now available in the US.
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The US telecom carrier T-Mobile has reportedly launched a new $100 cashback promo scheme for purchasing a selected Samsung smartphone and a tablet, starting May 13. Continue reading “Buy a Samsung mobile and a tablet in the US, and get $100 from T-Mobile”
In a bid to help find and return missing children, Facebook has announced the launch of Amber (America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response) Alerts. The new initiative is aimed at locating missing children in the US by using the world’s largest social network.
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Mozilla has announced that it is replacing its default search engine from Google to Yahoo in the U.S. The company has entered into a five year partnership with Yahoo to be the default search engine on mobile and desktop.
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Samsung has announced that Galaxy Note Edge will be coming to the US on November 14. The phone will be coming to AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, and U.S. Cellular.
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Samsung has announced that the Galaxy Note 4 will go for pre-order in the US and UK markets on September 19. The recently launched smartphone will go on the sale in the US on October 17th.
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T-Mobile will offer Wi-Fi calling on the newly launched iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in the US while EE will provide the same in the UK. The popular US and UK carriers will be the first one to partner Apple for this feature that will allow users to make phone calls using a Wi-Fi network.
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The US President Barack Obama has signed the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act into law. This essentially means that it is now legal to unlock a cell phone in the United States.
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Now, anyone living in the US can buy Google’s flagship wearable product, the Google Glass. Google opened sales of Glass to the US public for one day in April, making it briefly available to people. The company also launched a try and buy program for potential Glass buyers. However, this time the Explorer Program is not limited for a specific period or to specific people such as developers.
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ZTE is well known for providing quite compelling hardware at a bargain basement price point. After announcing the Grand X for Europe, it is now bringing its next high-end device to the US. Coming to Sprint in the 4th quarter, the phone sports specs like a 1.5Ghz dual core processor and 1GB of RAM.
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The never ending patent war continues and today was another chapter where Apple’s patent violation claims were rejected by the US ITC. But this is just a preliminary ruling and the final ruling is yet to be made by the International Trade Commission.
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