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Tuesday, 28th February 2012

Mobile World Congress 2012

Samsung: One Tablet Closer to Irrelevance

Samsung has a history of its executives contradicting themselves. Especially when it comes to tablet sales. In January 2011, Samsung reported on its earnings call that its tablet sales were "quite small." A minor controversy erupted when the company said that statement was an error in the call's transcription. Samsung backtracked and said that…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

Apple Working on High-Fidelity Audio Format

Earlier this month, Neil Young made headlines with a biting critique of the state of digital music. In particular, it's the audio quality that bugs Young. Even the highest quality MP3's contain only a fraction of the audio data found in the original master recordings, and industry veterans like Young are concerned that the digital revolution is…

Play John Paul Titlow comments

Mobile World Congress 2012

Google + Motorola = Geek's Dream

Google + Motorola = Geek's Dream

For the second Mobile World Congress in a row, Google's Android booth is the coolest in Barcelona. Not just because it's big and bright, and features free snacks, but because it epitomizes Google's geekiness. There's the same slide to whiz down as Google had last year, and the same free smoothies. But this year, Google has also added a big…

Mobile Dan Frommer comments

Google+ Should Have Been Bing's Linked Pages

Bing launched Bing+ last week, it just skipped all the unnecessary stuff. (It's not really called Bing+.) There's a new feature called Linked Pages that allows Bing users (U.S. only, for now) to connect their various websites and profiles to their Bing identities, using Facebook for authentication. You can also link your Facebook friends to their…

Jon Mitchell comments

Digital Lifestyle

Circl.es Is Not Creepy

Most 21st century humanoids have probably either at one point tried online dating or dissed online dating. Or both. We have reached a new point in history, at which we either do not feel like we can meet people in real life, or we are too encumbered by technology, or we are too awkward, or all of the above. As such, we turn to a virtual place…

Social Alicia Eler comments

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