Samsung expects smartphone market slowdown to hit profits

From InfoWorld: Samsung Electronics is expecting a drop in its operating profit for the third consecutive quarter, citing an overall slowdown in smartphone market growth and increased competition in China and some European markets.

The company was also hit in the second quarter by the appreciation...

Android Wear bug prevents installation of apps that cost money

From GreenBot: The first round of Android Wear devices have only just started shipping. But any early adopter who straps on an LG G Watch or Samsung Gear Live to their wrist in the coming days may have a problem installing paid apps designed for Android Wear.

Problems with Google Play's approach to...

New Sony Xperia C3 is all about the selfie

From CNET: In final proof that the selfie is taking over the world, Sony has beefed up the camera on its latest smartphone to make the Sony Xperia C3 "The world's best selfie smartphone."

The word "Selfie" -- referring to a picture taken of yourself, alone or with friends -- was added to the Oxford...

BlackBerry Tries to Explain its 4.5 Square Passport Smartphone

From DailyTech: BlackBerry really left us all scratching our heads when it revealed the upcoming 4.5” Passport smartphone with its stubby proportions and square display. Although packing in a relatively dense screen with a 1440x1440 resolution, the Passport flies in the face of conventional wisdom...

Firefox falters, falls to record low in overall browser share

From InfoWorld: Firefox's user share on all platforms -- desktop and mobile -- has plunged in the last two months as its desktop browser continued to bleed and its attempt to capture users on smartphones failed to move the needle, new data shows.

Apple's Safari fared almost as poorly since April...

LG announces global availability of LG G Pad 10.1

From CNET: The LG G Pad 10.1, the largest tablet in LG's G Pad series, has gone global.

Introduced in June, the family of Android-powered tablets includes features borrowed from the company's lineup of smartphones. The South Korean electronics giant announced the European availability in June of...

Microsoft Kinect v2 Sensor Coming to Windows July 15

From DailyTech: The Kinect sensor might not be all its cracked up to be on the Xbox One — hence Microsoft’s decision to add a SKU for the console without the camera peripheral for $100 less — but that isn’t stopping the Redmond, Washington-based company from trying again with the PC market.

Early...

Seagate NAS HDD ST4000VN000 4TB Review (Page 1 of 11)

When QNAP sent over the TS-559 Pro+ to us for review in September 2010, I decided it was a wise choice to buy a new set of hard drives to go along with the NAS. My requirements were simple; I wanted something reasonably power efficient, reasonably fast, and reasonably priced to run in RAID 5. As it turned out, my "simple" requirements were actually not as simple as I thought. Apparently, regular desktop drives may have problems in RAID, and I was...

ARM to ship mini-computer for writing 64-bit Android L apps

From InfoWorld: A new ARM mini-computer that could speed up the development of applications for 64-bit Android L smartphones and tablets will ship late next month.

The hardware, which is an uncased computer, is aimed at professional developers and large companies to help them write middleware...

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