Samsung promises to investigate burned up Galaxy S3

From CNET News.com: Samsung has promised to investigate claims of a Galaxy S3 burning up and melting in Ireland.

"There have been recent online posts displaying pictures of a Samsung GALAXY SIII that appears to have heat-related damage at the bottom of the device," the company wrote...

Oracle Gets Nothing in Google Android Lawsuit, Opts for Appeal

From DailyTech: Oracle Corp. (ORCL) at one time hoped to win as much as $7B USD from Google Inc. (GOOG) for its allegedly unauthorized use of certain license-only Java source files. That wouldn't be a bad payday -- in fact it would almost entirely justify the $7.4B USD Oracle paid...

Samsung's S Beam teaches Android a new trick

From CNET News.com: In opening up its Android operating system, Google ensured one thing: that handset-makers would have the room they needed to dress up Google's little green OS however they please.

With S Beam on the Samsung Galaxy S III, Samsung took a good feature, Android Beam...

RIM Begins Laying Off Employees, Won't Say How Many Yet

From DailyTech: Research In Motion (RIM) has officially started laying off employees after suffering a huge quarterly financial loss and losing the smartphone race against the likes of Apple and Google.

RIM hasn't announced exactly how many layoffs have occurred or how many will...

As RIM Waits on BB10, Another Manufacturer Bails on it

From DailyTech: Waterloo, Ontario-based smartphone maker Research in Motion, Ltd. (TSE:RIM) is facing a potential end-of-life scenario as it scrambles to deploy its next generation BlackBerry 10 (BB10) operating system to market. BB10 was supposed to arrive early this year, but...

Intel Officially Introduces Xeon Phi

From X-bit Labs: At the International Supercomputing Conference, Intel Corp. made yet another announcement regarding its highly-anticipated many-core accelerator for high-performance computing (HPC) known as Knights Corner. The official name of the chip and PCI Express accelerators...

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