Smartphone ownership in US continues to grow, led by Android OS

Smartphone ownership in the USA continues to grow with 50.4 percent of mobile subscribers now owning a smart device, according to a Nielsen study published May 7. The study found that from December 2011 to March 2012 the percentage of US mobile subscribers owning smartphones increased for 47.8 percent to 50.4 percent. Among  those smartphone owners in the...

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Top new tech products: Samsung Galaxy S III, LG Optimus LTE2

High-tech product releases announced the week ending May 9 include the Samsung Galaxy S III, the HP Envy Spectre XT, the world’s first smartphone for seniors, a waterproof Android smartphone, and a tough camera from Olympus.A powerful and sleek ultrabook with Beats AudioComputer maker Hewlett-Packard (HP) showed off a barrage of new laptops this week, among them...

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Twitter passwords bared online

Twitter on Tuesday said that it was trying to figure out how user names and passwords from thousands of accounts apparently wound up posted at an online file sharing website.Information posted on Pastebin.com pages appeared to be from about 35,000 Twitter accounts, not counting about 20,000 that seemed to be redundancies, according to a message "tweeted" by the San Francisco...

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PAGASA website hacked

MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) - The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) website was hacked on Wednesday. The hacker did not leave any identification, only the words: “Hacked by Net user! Team:X-fuck ! E-mail:794399786@qq.com!” A PAGASA official said computer experts are now investigating the incident. In the meantime,...

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Samsung reveals Galaxy S III Olympic Edition with Visa Paywave

KOREAN PHONE MAKER Samsung will release a limited edition Olympic Galaxy S III handset that will have Visa Paywave technology. Don't go getting too excited, though, as Visa has said that the 'mobile wallet' won't go on sale to the general public yet, as it will be made available only to sponsored Olympic athletes. According to Samsung the Paywave enabled smartphone will enable users to "buy merchandise with a wave of the device at thousands of retail locations throughout London", which given that the athletes are unlikely to have...

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