Samsung: No More Galaxy Tablet Keyboard Docks from Us

- New Galaxy tablet dock

It's not easy to learn that your favorite gadget accessory has been axed, but Samsung has reached the conclusion that its keyboard docks don't qualify as favorite to most people. Because of that, it will no longer make keyboard docks for the Galaxy Note 10.1, the Galaxy Tab 10, and the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 tablets.

iPhone 5 rated fifth in user satisfaction in new study

Apple was No. 1 overall for user satisfaction, but the iPhone 5 was fifth on the list among U.S. consumers, says a poll from OnDevice Research.

Apple's Tim Cook 'opposed Samsung lawsuit'

Apple chief executive Tim Cook was reportedly against filing patent lawsuits against Samsung.

The Cupertino firm is involved in drawn-out legal disputes with its rival in numerous territories, but Cook is said to have advised against courtroom action.

Vodafone warns iPhone 4S users against iOS 6.1

CRIMSON MOBILE OPERATOR Vodafone has told its iPhone 4S customers not to install Apple's latest iOS update, iOS 6.1, warning of battery and 3G issues.

Apple released iOS 6.1 towards the end of January, bringing 4G support and bug fixes to its existing iDevices. However, Vodafone has since warned users not to download the over-the-air update, saying they might experience issues with their battery life and 3G signal.

Such problems have already been reported by iPhone users, who have flocked to Apple's support forums to bemoan the iOS 6.1 update.

Apple is testing a smartphone watch with iPhone features

GIZMO DESIGNER Apple reportedly is testing an electronic watch that has some of the functions found on its iPhone.

Apple has been widely tipped to have a television in the works but now the firm is said to be testing an electronic watch as well. According to the Wall Street JournalApple has talked to Foxconn about assembling a wearable electronic device.

Apple Experimenting with Smart Watch Gadgets – Reports.

After revolutionizing the market of cell phones and popularization of media tablets, Apple wants to tap a completely different market, the market of wrist watches, which has existed for about a hundred of years. With its first devices designed to be wearable, Apple will likely cause a lot of market buzz. But will it actually create a yet another revolution?

iOS 6 Sound Problem” Reports Keep Trickling In

- Apple headphone

It appears that even after the release of iOS 6.0.1, 6.0.2, and even 6.1, some Apple customers are still experiencing sound issues with their iPhones after making the leap from iOS 5 to iOS 6.

BLACKBERRY Z10 NOW AVAILABLE IN U.S. WITH $50 UNLIMITED PLAN

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BlackBerry’s (BBRY) first next-generation smartphone won’t be available from major U.S. carriers until sometime in mid-March, but a smaller carrier called Solavei is making the BlackBerry Z10 available starting immediately. What’s more, BlackBerry’s Z10 is available with unlimited service and nationwide access to Solavei’s partner 4G networks for just $50 per month. The catch? The Z10 costs $1,000 online from Solavei’s retail partner. “We believe in giving our members access to the latest phones and wireless capabilities,” said Solavei CEO Ryan Wuerch. “Solavei not only gives its members the opportunity to pay less for unlimited mobile service, but even the opportunity to earn income by sharing Solavei with others.” More details on how the service works follow below in the company’s full press release.

Apple and Samsung, 'frenemies' for life

San Francisco/Seoul: It was the late Steve Jobs' worst nightmare.

A powerful Asian manufacturer, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, uses Google Inc's Android software to create smartphones and tablets that closely resemble the iPhone and the iPad. Samsung starts gaining market share, hurting Apple Inc's margins and stock price and threatening its reign as the king of cool in consumer electronics.

What 7 Million Jailbreaks Are Saying. Is Apple Listening?

What is going on here? The normally docile Apple masses are growing restless. The much anticipated iOS 6 jailbreak, evasi0n, has now been installed more than 7 million times in the six days since its release. (Forbes‘ Andy Greenberg pegged it at ”nearly 7 million” as of 8 am Friday. At that rate, it could be well over 10 million by now, but there has been no reliable report on installs since Greenberg’s.)

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New smartphone app PressureNet could help forecast storms

New smartphone app PressureNet could help forecast storms

NEW YORK: Researchers have developed a new appthat lets users send pressure measurements to scientists which may help predict storms. 

The app, called PressureNet, takes advantage of the latest sensor to show up in smart devices. 

Some of the latest mobile devices now takeatmospheric pressure measurements to determine elevation, in an effort to more precisely track location, the 'TechNewsDaily' reported. 

At the same time, the pressure in an area can inform meteorologists about what's happening with the air masses in that location and help them forecast stormsthat will arrive over the next few hours. 

Atmospheric scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle are trying to develop a way to use these device-gathered measurements for short-term storm forecasts. 

It will take some time for research before the scientists are able to test whether their method works. If it does,smartphone and tablet owners could help collect far more data than are now available from federally managed weather stations in the US. 

"We could potentially have tens or hundreds of thousands of additional surface pressure observations, which could significantly improve short-term weather forecasts," Cliff Mass, who is leading the weather-predictingeffort, said in a statement. 

The UW team is now gathering about 4,000 data points an hour, the report said. 

Previous versions of the app have been around since 2011, but its developers at the Canada-based Cumulonimbus just updated it in January so that users may share their data anonymously with Mass and colleagues. 

"Thunderstorms are one of the areas of weakest skill for forecasting. I think thunderstorms in the middle part of the country could potentially be the biggest positive for this approach," he said. 

Researchers hope to compare their smartphone- and tablet-aided forecasts to traditional predictions.

You Won’t See Facebook’s Graph Search On iPhone Or Android Anytime Soon

The release of Facebook’s Graph Search has raised much discussion among technology pundits and investors. One of the biggest questions surrounding the highly anticipated feature is its availability on mobile.

After all, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said on a number of occasions that Facebook is a mobile company. “On mobile we are going to make a lot more money than on desktop,” he said at TechCruch Disrupt SF 2012, adding “a lot more people have phones than computers, and mobile users are more likely to be daily active users.” Facebook understands mobile’s importance, so why wouldn’t it offer Graph Search for Android and iPhone from the start?

It’s simple: Graph Search for mobile would need to incorporate speech, which is a different beast altogether.

Sony's PS4 to focus on new style of play, but what about hardware?

I am always somewhat suspicious of a new console that hits the market amidst talk of how hardware and raw horsepower isn't the true focus of the system. 

Unfortunately, this may be the case with the Sony's long-awaited PlayStation 4, which is expected to make its debut on February 20 and launch later this year.

Indeed, an unnamed Sony Computer Entertainment executive has reportedly stated that the PlayStation 4 will be more of a home entertainment hub than we've seen with previous Xbox consoles.

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Fujitsu speeds up internet transmissions, declares war on buffering

Fujitsu's engineers, bored of waiting for their movies to download, have cooked up a new data transferprotocol that promises to be 30 times faster than current speeds. Using a proprietary tweak of user datagram protocol (UDP), the software examines the available bandwidth and only uses the optimal amount, rather than trying to load the pipe with more than it can handle. The science, however, lies in its ability to distinguish between packets that haven't arrived and those which are lost -- and only resending the latter. It's hoping to commercialize the software at some point this year, so if your Skype chats suddenly get a lot lesslaggy, you know who to blame.

Google X Phone leaked by Motorola

Motorola has leaked the existence of the so-called Google X Phone, which it is developing for parent company Google.

Motorola has posted a job listing for a "Sr Director Project Management, X-Phone," on the business-oriented social network, Linkedin. This is about as official a confirmation as we're likely to get at this point that new Motorola-Google phone is indeed in the works.

Chinese hackers also hit Wall Street Journal

Revelation follows New York Times saying it was victim of extensive spying campaign

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The Wall Street Journal said yesterday it had been targeted by hackers trying to monitor the newspaper's coverage of China, less than a day after a similar revelation from its competitor The New York Times.

The Journal, which is owned by News Corp., said it finishe

Windows Phone 7.8 for the Lumia 800

My morning routine normally consists of switching on the personal mobile (Nexus 4), checking Facebook and Twitter. Then switch on the work phone (Nokia Lumia 800), check the work emails, and then get out of bed.

HMV Announces UK Redundancies

Deloitte has announced redundancies at music retailer HMV.

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It's been a rough couple of weeks for HMV. A couple of weeks back, the music retailer and entertainment company announced that it hadofficially entered administration. Though little information on the company's future was offered, HMV did say that it had appointed Deloitte as an administrator and Deloitte said it would be keeping stores open while it assesses HMV's situation and seeks a buyer. Unfortunately, though stores remain open, staff aren't safe from redundancies.

NVIDIA Tegra 4 Tablet/Phone Chips Doing Rather Poorly

The Tegra 3 mobile system-on-chip has managed to charm its way into the tablet designs of many consumer electronics device developers, but the same cannot be said about its successor. 

NVIDIA did say the Tegra 4 was faster than the Apple A6X in the iPad, and better by a factor of 6 than Tegra 3. 

X-Phone, Motorola’s Rumored Android 5.0 Phone Confirmed by Job Listing

There have been tons of speculations on Motorola’s X-Phone project, but nothing indicated that this could be real until today. It looks like Google and Motorola are indeed working on something called X-Phone, which will eventually see the light of day in the coming months.

Sony unveils WUXGA projector with Laser Light Source Technology

At the Integrated Systems Europe event, better known as ISE 2013, Sony unveiled its first projector with Laser Light Source Technology, a WUXGA installation projector. The projector is modeled after a couple of popular units in Sony’s F-series, and it boasts several features, including up to 20,000 maintenance-free hours of use.

Will Sony Unveil the Playstation 4 on February 20?

Speculation mounts over next-gen console after Sony teases special Playstation event

In the unlikely event that you don’t spend most of the year playing through the titles on Maximum PC’s list of the “most anticipated PC games of 2013”

Twitter outage marks return of the Fail Whale

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Twitter has apologised for an outage that left some users unable to access the service for nearly several hours on Thursday, its third outage of January.