A researcher at North Carolina State University has uncovered a vulnerability that could be exploited to send deceptive text messages from some Android devices, as part of a phishing scheme. Particularly worrisome is the fact that the ...
Tags: Android, Phising, SMS, Android devices
Samsung makes $56 more selling each new $499.99 Wi-Fi-only Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet than Apple gets by selling the iPad for the same price. That's because Samsung's cost for materials is just about $260, while Apple's costs were $316 when ...
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Nokia has dropped off the list of the top five smartphone vendors in the third quarter, facing stiff competition from Samsung and Apple globally, and from high-growth vendors like Huawei in China, where Nokia was the dominant player as ...
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Computer technology accounted for more patent applications in recent years than any other industry sector tracked by the World Intellectual Property Organization, although the number of digital communication patent applications grew faster. ...
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HTC and Nokia are turning to brighter colors to help their Windows Phone 8-based devices stand out in the ultracompetitive smartphone sector. On Wednesday, HTC launched the 8X, which will be available in red, yellow and blue, as well as ...
Tags: HTC, New Windows Phones, Colors
Samsung Galaxy S III’s display is thinner and has a greater range of colours than that of the Apple iPhone 5, an IHS iSuppli teardown analysis revealed Tuesday. But IHS iSuppli analyst Vinita Jakhanwal noted that the differences ...
Tags: iPhone5, isuppli, Samsung, teardown analysis
As the battle between Apple’s iPhone 5 and Samsung’s Galaxy S III rages on – a study conducted by the disassembly firm iFixit and nonprofit organisation Ecology Centre has concluded that the iPhone 5 is less toxic than the ...
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A variation of the attack that can wipe data from Samsung Android devices when visiting a malicious Web page can also be used to disable the SIM cards from many Android phones, researchers have said. Ravishankar Borgaonkar, a research ...
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Asustek's latest Transformer Pad TF300TL has a quad-core processor and LTE capabilities to go along with a 10.1-inch screen, the company said on Friday. Asus is selling the tablet in the U.S. for $449 for a model with 16GB of storage; a ...
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In the face of an Apple demand for a sales ban on its Android products, Samsung told a Dutch court on Friday that in fact it has already changed the products so they no longer infringe. But the South Korean company's failure to provide ...
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Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt will meet with Samsung’s mobile executives — and likely discuss the latest patent clash with Apple — while in South Korea for the launch of the Nexus 7 Android tablet. At a press ...
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Samsung’s latest smartphone – the Samsung Galaxy S III – has taken over from the iPhone 4S as the UK’s most popular mobile, according to a new study. The mobile tracker from uSwitch.com showed the phone topping its ...
Samsung said Tuesday it will"take all necessary measures"to keep its products available for sale in the U.S. The statement comes one day after Apple filed a request in federal court for a ban on eight smartphones that Samsung sells. "We ...
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AT&T added six more cities to its 4G LTE network on Monday,bringing the total offering the service to 47 markets. The newest cities are Buffalo,NY;Burlington,NC;Corpus Christi,TX;Gainesville,GA;Greensboro-Winston Salem,NC;and ...
Tags: LTE Cities, AT&T, LTE-ready smartphones
Just a few days after Ericsson filed several patent-infringement lawsuits against Samsung in the U.S., the Swedish mobile phone company also filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), asking for an import ban ...
Tags: Ericsson, Samsung, lawsuit, mobile phone