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The Boeing Black Secure Android Smartphone Gets Official After Three Years In Development
Boeings secure smartphone has been fully detailed after an FCC filing revealed its imminent arrival yesterday, and the Android device seems like an unusual, and mission-specific gadget. With a 4.3-inch 960540 display, LTE, a dual-core 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex A9 processor, Bluetooth 2.1 and SD expandability, its not going toe-to-toe with any flagship devices, but the point is security, not muscle. Information about OEM partners manufacturing hardware, or networks offering service for the device are classified, as is much about the smartphone by design, since its entirely based around the idea that some customers need a smartphone where security features are not only present, but paramount.
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At MWC In Barcleona, Samsung Courts The Apps Developers
Samsung Electronics Co. came to Barcelonas Mobile World Congress to show off its newest smartphones and smartwatches to consumers. But its also taking advantage of the global tech event to court one of its most important audiences: the programmers and apps developers that make the third-party services that increasingly define the experience on its devices.
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Video: Watch What You Text: IPhone Surveillance Startup Moves To NYC
Good luck lying to your parents now. mSpy has been helping people monitor each other's phone activity since 2011, and the London-based company is now setting up shop in New York City's Financial District. The smartphone monitoring software they devised keeps track of users' phone calls, texts, browsers, and even their WhatsApp activity. It sounds legally dubious, but the founders assured Betabeat this week that the use of mSpy is legal as long as a device's owner knows they're under surveillance.
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Watch What You Text: IPhone Surveillance Startup Moves To NYC
Good luck lying to your parents now. mSpy has been helping people monitor each other's phone activity since 2011, and the London-based company is now setting up shop in New York City's Financial District. The smartphone monitoring software they devised keeps track of users' phone calls, texts, browsers, and even their WhatsApp activity. It sounds legally dubious, but the founders assured Betabeat this week that the use of mSpy is legal as long as a device's owner knows they're under surveillance.
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You Need To Update Your IPhone ASAP!
Listen up iPhone users! Youve gotta update your cell phones right now! Apple introduced a new software update this week for its iOS7 and iOS6 operating systems, but not because they have any cool new features for you. Its because of a serious security risk! A hole has been discovered in Apples mobile and desktop OSs that allows hackers to get into your iPhone, iPad, or computer via an unsecured Wi-Fi connection! The iOS fixes seem to patch up any potential problems but OS X Mavericks is still having issues, so users should stick to using Chrome or Firefox and not Safari for the time being!
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A future controlled by your smartphone
The connected world is one of the key themes at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Ivor Bennett looks at some of the more innovative ways to connect including sensitive fabrics and informative toothbrushes.
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Smartphone Innovation Reaches Its Peak
With so many smartphones out there, the WSJ's Jonathan Cheng finds innovation may have reached its peak.
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Lenovo's No Longer PC And Here's Why It Bought Motorola
Established just two years back, Lenovo's smartphone business is going places, according to numbers provided by the company. In Q1 this year, the company's combined tablet and smartphone volume of 17.3 million has exceeded its PC volume of 15.3 million, and this is thanks to the strong combined growth of 47 percent in the Asia Pacific region as well as in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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BlackBerry Unveils New Low-Cost Smartphone, and More
Whats News: BlackBerry unveils sub-$200 smartphone and plans retro device with keyboard. U.S. home prices in 2013 post biggest annual gain since 2005. Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox halts all transactions and shuts down website. Joanne Po reports.
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'Evil Dead' Director Sam Raimi Says Smartphones Should Make Us Cry
Hollywood film director Sam Raimi was at Mobile World Congress today, giving a content creator's perspective on the future of mobile entertainment. Sound, notes Raimi, is invisible, so "we don't know what we're missing" when experiencing a film at home or on a mobile device instead of a fully outfitted theater. Describing the ability of sound to convey emotion at a subliminal level, he asked the audience, "when was the last time you cried at something that was presented on a mobile device?"
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