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Strategy Analytics: Nokia tops global handset shipments, Apple sees quarterly surge

Posted on 27 January 2012

Fresh off the publication of its latest tablet report, Strategy Analytics has come out with a new batch of statistics on the global mobile market. In a report published yesterday, the research firm crowned Apple as the world’s largest smartphone vendor by volume, on the strength of the 37 million iPhones it shipped during Q4 [...] Continue Reading

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Distro Issue 25: Ultrabook overload, Snap Analysis and Gina Trapani

Posted on 27 January 2012

Distro is 25… weeks old, today! And to celebrate we’re debuting a new page that puts you, our readers, front and center. We’ve been sending out questions over various social networking channels and collecting your answers for the inaugural run of Snap Analysis. Among other things, you weighed in on RIM’s CEO switch up, as [...] Continue Reading

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RIM CEO Thorsten Heins clarifies comments on change, rejects Android speculation

Posted on 27 January 2012

Freshly anointed RIM CEO Thorsten Heins sat down with Crackberry this week to discuss his vision for the future of BlackBerry, his thoughts on Android and, most strikingly, his recent comments about maintaining the status quo. Shortly after his appointment, Heins issued a video address in which he implicitly claimed that RIM doesn’t need an [...] Continue Reading

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Google Music now lets you download your entire library

Posted on 27 January 2012

Computer meltdown? No backup? Well, at least your tunes are safe. Google Music just gained a new feature that lets you to download your entire library including purchased songs. A simple click in the Music Manager is all it takes to restore your entire collection — or just your purchased music — from the cloud. [...] Continue Reading

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Windows Phone 7.5 gets multiple Google Calendar sync, additional Gmail features

Posted on 27 January 2012

Google’s improved how its calendar and email services interact with Windows Phones running the Mango update. Users can now cram up to 25 different calendars into the Metro OS’s built-in calendar app. The setup’s not exactly seamless; you need to navigate your Windows Phone to the Google Sync page, login and check the boxes found [...] Continue Reading

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Steam beta journeys to Android and iOS, for select invitees

Posted on 27 January 2012

Our friends at Joystiq are members of a privileged club of which we are not. We’ve both downloaded and installed the mobile version of Steam — now available as a free beta download for Android and iOS — but where they found Mac and PC games for sale, along with the ability to chat with [...] Continue Reading

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German court rejects Samsung’s second 3G patent complaint against Apple

Posted on 27 January 2012

About a week after suffering a legal setback in Germany, Samsung received another bit of bad news this morning, when the Mannheim Regional Court rejected the second of its patent infringement claims against Apple. As with last week’s ruling, today’s decision addresses one of Samsung’s arguments that Apple’s 3G / UMTS technology infringes upon its [...] Continue Reading

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Wii U controller to get NFC, says Satoru Iwata

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Wii U controller to pack NFC, says Iwata, create new gameplay options

Posted on 27 January 2012

Aching for more details on Nintendo’s elusive Wii U console? Let Satoru Iwata scratch your itch — quarterly reports aren’t just for reporting losses and announcing new networks, after all. Boss hog Iwata told investors that Nintendo is spicing up their next console’s tablet-esque controller with a little NFC magic. Nintendo’s President briefly entertains the [...] Continue Reading

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SwitchMe brings makeshift guest account to Android root users

Posted on 27 January 2012

Wouldn’t it be absolutely splendid if you could hand your phone over to a friend (or complete stranger) without fear of them mucking up your system or digging into your personal bits? Yes, we’d absolutely love to see guest accounts become standard issue on all handsets, but until that day arrives, a new application called [...] Continue Reading

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Potential Samsung Galaxy SII-sibling heads to China via the FCC

Posted on 27 January 2012

A mysteriously packaged Samsung device departed the FCC’s secure zone with a few question marks over its character. We know it’s got GSM/EDGE 850 – 1900 radios and can access WCDMA Bands II and V, plus the usual WiFi and Bluetooth gear, but that’s about it. The folks at Wireless Goodness are staking the GT-i9070 [...] Continue Reading

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