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- 13 October 2011
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News: Google/Samsung Ice Cream Sandwich Launch Moved to Oct. 19 in Hong Kong
The Samsung/Google media event, which is rumored to launch the Nexus Galaxy with Ice Cream Sandwich, has been rescheduled to take place on October 19 in Hong Kong, China. The event starts at 10:00 a.m. HKT with doors opening at 9:30 a.m. The event will be livestreamed will be available at YouTube.com/Android at 10 p.m. EST on October 18 for those who cannot attend the event.
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News: Quanta latest to license patents from MS for Android, Chrome
Quanta Computer, the Taiwanese contract computer manufacturer, is now the ninth company to license patents from Microsoft for its Android devices, the companies said Thursday.
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Opinion: Highlights from Japan and the CEATEC Show
The recent Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies trade show and the streets of Akihabara, Japan, were filled with current and upcoming eye-catching technology.
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News: Battle between Samsung and Apple heats up
The legal battle between Apple and Samsung has reached fever pitch, with Apple getting an injunction to stop the sale of the Galaxy 10.1 tablet in Australia as Samsung launches new versions of its smartphones to keep them on sale in the Netherlands. Both companies are also preparing for a hearing in California scheduled for Thursday.
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News: O2 to trial VoIP service that uses a smartphone's Wi-Fi
O2 is to trial a Voice over IP (VoIP) service that will allow its customers to make calls over Wi-Fi networks from their smartphones.
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News: Apple wins injunction against Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales in Australia
Samsung has been temporarily banned from selling its tablet PC, the Galaxy Tab 10.1, in Australia, following legal action by Apple.
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News: Red Bend working on mobile virtualization
Red Bend, which makes products for delivering over-the-air software updates, will soon offer a virtualization technology for Android devices that allows a user to have both a personal profile and a business profile on the same device.
- 12 October 2011
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Opinion: Trying Out the HTC Sensation XL
We loved the original HTC Sensation, so I jumped at the chance to get my hands on its bigger (badder) brother, the Sensation XL. This monster phone has a 4.7-inch WVGA display and is intended to be a device for major media fiends.
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News: Samsung aims for the enterprise
As more companies allow employees to bring smartphones and tablets into work, Android device makers are building products and partnerships to secure them, and now Samsung is joining the fray.
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News: Mozilla sets its site on mobile standardization
After helping pave the way for platform independent websites and applications, the Mozilla Foundation has set a new, and ambitious, task for itself to standardize mobile applications on the Web platform as well, according to a talk given by its chief technology officer.
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News: Mobile deathmatch: Apple iOS 5 vs. Google Android OS
After months of hype, Apple has released iOS 5 for current iPhone 3G S and 4 owners, for iPad and iPad 2 owners, and for third- and fourth-generation iPod Touch owners. I survey its key new features in the slideshow "iOS 5 and iCloud: The InfoWorld visual tour," but the fact is that iOS doesn't exist in isolation. It competes with Google's Android OS, and the group of smartphones running Android now significantly outsells the iPhone. (It's a different story in tablets, where the iPad is trouncing everyone, including Android.)
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News: How to Clean Your LCD, Root a Nook, Load Linux on a Netbook
Recently someone asked me if it was okay to spray Windex on her monitor. I think my shriek of horror startled her. It is not okay to spray Windex (or anything else) on a monitor. In fact, when it comes to cleaning an LCD screen, there's a right way and a wrong way. Let's focus on the right way. (Want to clean your whole PC? Read our nifty how-to.)
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Feature: Best Android apps: Five free reference apps
There's plenty to read on your smartphone, as it allows users to access to everything from your favourite paperback in the form of an eBook to breaking news on a website.
- 11 October 2011
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News: Huawei aims for top of US market
Huawei is focused on bringing smartphones and tablets to the masses in the U.S. and hopes to be among the top five mobile phone vendors in the U.S in the next three years, company executives said Tuesday at CTIA.
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Opinion: New Secure Android Tool Divides Data for Work or Play
If you use your Android smartphone for both business and pleasure, a product introduced today at a trade show in Germany appears to be worth following. A version of Android called BizzTrust creates two partitions in Android--one for personal use and another super-secure one for business.
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News: SlingPlayer for Honeycomb Tablets Lands in Android Market
Watching your home TV remotely on a Honeycomb Android tablet is now a bit easier with the release of Sling Media's SlingPlayer for Android Tablets. The new app allows Honeycomb tablet users to connect their Android slates to a Slingbox Solo or Pro-HD place-shifting set-top box to watch home television while on the go. The app is available in the Android Market for $30 and requires a tablet running Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) or later.
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News: iPad Rules Tablet Web Traffic
The Apple iPad is by far the most popular tablet device used to browse the Web, according to the latest figures from comScore. Android tablets are nowhere to be seen, as the research found iPads deliver more than 97 percent of all U.S. tablet traffic, totaling a higher share of Internet use than iPhones.
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News: Opera mobile browsers get Data Usage function
Opera has unveiled the latest versions of its mobile browser, Opera Mini 6.5 and Opera Mobile 11.5, which now allow web users to see how much data they are using.
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How-Tos: How to disable roaming on a Google Android 2.2 device
Being able to browse the web from your smartphone when you're on the go is a great function, whether you want to catch-up on work emails while you're on the train or simply make your friends jealous by posting pictures of how you're sunning yourself to Facebook when you're on holiday.
- 10 October 2011
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News: AT&T's Toggle to deliver enterprise apps to Android phones
AT&T on Monday announced plans to offer a new service, called Toggle, that will securely run enterprise apps like email on any Android phone a worker chooses to buy.
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