Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom leaked ahead of June 20th unveiling

Samsung's June 20th event is fast approaching and we've had a pretty good idea on what the Korean manufacturer plans to unveil. One of the rumored devices is a “Samsung Galaxy Zoom” — part Galaxy Camera, and part Galaxy smartphone. The fellas at SamMobile were able to nab an exclusive press shot of the device and in the process, revealed its true name: Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom. The device looks to bring everything you love about a fully functional “Galaxy” smartphone, only we're not so sure if the Zoom is worthy of the “S4″ name.

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Peterest - a photo sharing and pinning site for animal lovers

You know about Pinterest, the website that Wikipedia defines as a “a pinboard-style, photo-sharing website that allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections such as events, interests, and hobbies.”  What if you're only interested in sharing and collecting pet and animal photos.  With Peterest, you'll be able to upload, manage, share, browse, and mark favorite photos of pets and other animals without having to bother with all the endless other topics others find interesting.

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Ram reveals Man of Steel-themed Superman truck (video)

The new Superman film Man of Steel opens in theaters next Friday, June 14th, and Ram is buddying up with the summer blockbuster for some coattail-riding co-promotions. The partnership includes a new 30-second commercial called "Action" that pairs scenes from the film with footage of Ram trucks and a voiceover that says, "Everyone has the ability to do something amazing. Some just do it on a more regular basis." It's nothing too special (we've actually seen most of the Ram footage in other commercials already), but the brand should be happy having its trucks so closely associated with the Last Son of Krypton.



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Human Chair Could Be The Cutest Halloween Costume, Ever

Remember the Ostrich Pillow that we talked about a couple of years ago, so much so that it proved to be quite a hit among our readers (and the Internet in general), that it managed to garner enough attention to be crowdfunded via Kickstarter to finally roll off the production lines somewhere. Well, here is another potential idea that is just as quirky, although it might result in some folks freaking out when they see you wearing the Human Chair. The Human Chair is basically the design of artist Jamie Isenstein, where you can wear this piece of art.

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Verizon launches LG Optimus Zone (L3) and Exceed

Verizon has started selling two LG smartphones to prepay customers: the Optimus Zone, and Optimus Exceed. The Zone is Verizon's slightly upgraded version of the LG Optimus L3 E400, available globally since February 2012. It's a low-end handset that runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread (with no planned update to ICS) and features: a 3.2 inch QVGA display, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, 3.2 MP rear camera, 800MHz single-core processor, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal memory, MicroSD card support, and a 1,540mAh battery.

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iPhone Trade-In Program At Apple Stores May Begin This Month

Apple is reportedly starting an iPhone trade-in program at its retail stores this month, according to Bloomberg. The aim behind this program is to get customers to upgrade to iPhone 5 and turn in their older models in the process. As always, the source cites people that have knowledge of the plans. Apple has reportedly partnered with distributor Brightstar Corp. for this trade-in program. There has been no public announcement regarding this from Apple as yet.

AT&T, where the iPhone was initially an exclusive, already has an iPhone trade-in program in place.

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Purported Working Model Of Nokia EOS Pictured

Over the last couple of days we have been posting about alleged pictures of Nokia EOS smartphone. This particular device is expected to be announced on 9th July, apparently it runs on Windows Phone 8 and has a 41 megapixel camera on the back. The pictures we have seen so far have been from assembly lines or have shown off the casing of this device. Today a purported working model of Nokia EOS has been pictured, showing off how its display performs under direct sunlight.
Up front the design looks strikingly similar to Lumia 920.

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Experts fear rising vehicle prices may crimp industry rebound

In a day and age where it's easy to spec out a $28,000 Ford Focus or a $70,000+ Ram pickup, there's no doubting that new vehicle prices have gotten quite high. According to Ward's Auto, more and more analysts fear that the trend toward higher transaction prices may negatively affect an auto industry that is still on the rebound. Since 2008, Ward's notes that the average new-car transaction price has increased by more than $3,000 – 13 percent in the last year alone – to a current price of $28,831.

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Verizon's "Share Everything" plans just got a whole new meaning with latest NSA court order leak

Some troubling news has crossed the desks of newsrooms everywhere. According to court order documents obtained by The Guardian,  the National Security Agency (otherwise affectionately known as the NSA) has recently been granted full, unlimited access to several pieces of Verizon Wireless subscriber data over the course of three months. The court order gives the NSA a la carte access to information like who you're calling, how long your calls last, your phone's identification numbers, calling card numbers, location of each caller, and more.


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SysMech partners with Tableau to provide big data analytics for the telecommunications industry

- SysMech and Tableau partnership allows organisations to analyse data in real-time Tableau and SysMech, the big data applications company, have entered into an agreement to deliver Tableau’s visual analytics software as a part of the SysMech Zen™ Big Data Applications Family. The combined product offering will be part of a C-suite big data solution.

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NVIDIA Shield isn't just another gaming handheld, it's also a "Google Edition" Android device [VIDEO]

NVIDIA is packing up Shield and gearing up for a big showing at this year's E3 2013. Before they do, they wanted to take the time out to make sure you and everyone else knew that the NVIDIA Shield isn't just a portable gaming powerhouse — it's also a fully functional Android device. We've covered this in the past, but with all the hype lately over “Google Edition” devices running a stock Android OS, NVIDIA is here to remind you that Shield is running a completely unskinned version of Android Jelly Bean. This puts the device into a class of its own when compared to other gaming handhelds like the PSP Vita or Nintendo 3DS.



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2013 Buick Encore nets strong IIHS, NHTSA safety scores

After being crushed from every which way and rolled over like a labrador, the 2013 Buick Encore has been named a Top Safety Pick by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. To earn the accolade, a vehicle must achieve the highest rating of "Good" in each of the institute's four main crash tests: Front Moderate Overlap, Side, Rollover and Rear. The Encore aced those four tests with "Good" ratings, but missed out on the coveted Top Safety Pick+ designation by receiving a Poor rating in the institute's new Front Small Overlap test.

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AT&T ZTE Mustang and ZTE Sprint Vital leaked press shots emerge

Looks like ZTE has a pair of Androids headed to both AT&T and Sprint in the coming weeks. Our friend at @evleaks has just uncovered a device called the ZTE Mustang, complete with AT&T branding. Not much else is known on the device and while specs weren't given, we were hoping this could be the US version of the high-end ZTE Grand S — the world's thinnest 5-inch smartphone — shown off at CES a few months back (although that bezel has us more than doubting).


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Prior To iOS 7 Unveil, Square App Icons Pop Up In Developers Portal

Apple's WWDC 2013 keynote address takes place on 10th June. The company has confirmed that it will be focusing on iOS 7 at the event. Much has been rumored about the upcoming design changes in iOS 7. The yet to be announced iOS update is reportedly going to tout a ‘flat' design. Some developers have reportedly noticed that their app icons are being displayed as square and don't have the conventional rounded edges.

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Skype Gets Update

Any software that is worth its salt would definitely need a software update from time to time in order to help it keep up with what the general market is looking for, in addition to remaining in front of the rest of the competing pack, if any, while squashing any discovered bugs. The hugely popular VoIP program, Skype, has just received an update that delivers improved video messaging, simplified contact adding on Windows and giving you a far easier time whenever you want to make calls on OS X.

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Nintendo 8GB Wii U Basic Recall Confirmed

It always starts with a whisper, as reports of a potential recall started to circulate around, citing that Nintendo's 8GB Wii U Basic would be the particular make that will be affected by this particular recall. Well, GameStop did step forward to share that their sources point towards the recall of this Wii U Basic unit being confirmed, since they would no longer be selling the console from the middle of this month onwards. No only that, the folks over at CNET, too, has just confirmed with GameStop that this will definitely happen, as sure as the sun rises from the east and sets in the west.

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Outlook 2013 Confirmed For Windows RT Tablets

Apart from confirming that future small Windows 8 tablets will come with a free copy of Office 2013, Microsoft has also confirmed that Windows RT tablets will be getting Outlook 2013 later this year when an update for this platform is rolled out. For Windows RT tablets, Outlook 2013 RT will be available as a free update. All future tablets running the stripped down version of Windows 8 will come bundled with Microsoft's popular e-mail program. When Windows RT was released last year it had Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and OneNote. Outlook was visibly absent.

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ZTE Mustang gets pictured on its way to AT&T

It definitely looks like Sprint isn't the only carrier to be readying a new ZTE device for the near future. No, AT&T wants in on that action too. So ladies and gentlemen (and AT&T customers who are ZTE fans), for your convenience, here's the ZTE Mustang – pictured in all its glory, complete with huge AT&T logo on the front so you never forget who you're paying your bills to. Or something like that.
In the image below we can see a front-facing camera, and by the looks of things the ZTE Mustang will be a midranger at best (which is no surprise for the Chinese company's wares in the United States).

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Ticket to Ride launches on Android

One of my favorite strategy games has finally gotten a release on Android. I'm talking about Ticket to Ride, a game where you're tasked with building railroad connections between different cities and states. Your goal is beat other railroad tycoons to the punch on certain routes before they can. It's a balancing act of sorts. Longer routes give you more points, but the longer you take to finish a route the more chance you have of being blocked by your opponent.

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Deal of the Day - Dell XPS 8700 Core i5 "Haswell" Quad-core Desktop

Wednesday's LogicBUY Deal is the Dell XPS 8700 with the newest-generation Intel Core i5 CPU for $649.99.  Features:. 8GB RAMRadeon HD 7570.
$699.99 – $50 coupon code = $649.99 with free shipping.

This deal expires June 11, 2013 or sooner.

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CSR unlocks the connected car with in-vehicle Bluetooth® Smart connectivity

Automotive grade CSR1010™ is the key to new wireless automotive applications Cambridge, UK and Sunnyvale, California, USA – 5 June 2013 – CSR plc (LSE: CSR; NASDAQ: CSRE) today announces the launch of the first AEC-Q100 qualified single mode Bluetooth® Smart embedded device for automotive applications, CSR1010™ auto. The device will service existing and upcoming wireless applications in the vehicle as part of a complete Bluetooth v4.0 based end-to-end solution. It will also increase the integration of smartphones and other consumer devices into the driving experience of the future.

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Active goes official, and it's not your ordinary rugged smartphone

Yet another Samsung device has been announced, folks. We're not sure if Samsung was supposed to be saving all its trump cards for its June 20th event or if they're just getting all the announcements out of the way ahead of time, but the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active officially joins the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini and the two new Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 tablets announced within the past couple of weeks. Thankfully for us, this rugged device isn't quite as weak as the rumored specs suggested.







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The Guardian tops list in EPiServer mobile news study

Mobile has overtaken online and print as preferred method of consuming newsLondon, UK, 5th June 2013: The Guardian has come out top in delivering the best mobile news experience, according to a new report from EPiServer.  The mobile news study assessed the mobile websites and apps of 12 of the UK’s top news publishers*, with The Guardian providing impressively fast browsing, easy to locate stories with clear headlines and GuardianWitness, an innovative citizen journalism app for iPhone and Android.The study measured the mobile experience across native apps, mobile sites and tablets, rating the UK publishers on elements incl

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Leica Mini M Teased Further On Facebook

A couple of weeks ago Leica teased on their Facebook page an upcoming new camera called the Mini M, and the company has revealed a little bit more on its Facebook page. The image of the camera is still a little obscured as the box is still being partially open. If anything it does look a little like the leaked image we saw last week in which the camera was shown off in all of its glory.

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New Sony Vaio Duo Pushes "Slider Hybrid" Concept Further

At Computex 2013 Sony is refreshing its Vaio Duo hybrid which is a tablet PC that can slide out to become a laptop. The new design improves upon the previous generation in significant ways. First, the overall design is thinner, slicker, better. If Sony wants users to see this as a tablet, it can't be too thick.

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Large screen HTC T6 details surface with a possible late summer release

Earlier this week we shared details from a few sources that pegged HTC down as working on a big screen smartphone. Those rumors were pretty vague, but carried enough weight to support the possibility that HTC could be working such a device and implied that we might see a phone with a five to six inch screen plus the same hardware as the current king of smartphones, the HTC One. Keeping in mind that we are still in rumor-land details are always subject to change and anything we publish up until the day HTC announces said phone could be different from what you are about to read.

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Secure Voice over LTE – S-VoLTE: How mobile enterprise communications can benefit from LTE networks

Paris, June 4th 2013 – ERCOM announced today that it has successfully passed its first secure call on a live LTE network in Paris, France. Thanks to more than 10 years’ experience in cryptography, ERCOM has enhanced its Cryptosmart technology to protect LTE/4G Smartphones. As LTE Networks are booming around the world, governments and corporations can now benefit from the advantages of high-speed LTE networks in a fully secure manner. LTE/4G brings two major benefits to mobile users: (1) higher bandwidth (up to 100Mbps) and (2) reduced latency (down to 20ms).

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Android firmware versions for May: Jelly Bean rises to 33%, Ice Cream Sandwich drops to 25.6% of active devices

It's that time of the month when Google has taken out the time to update their famous Android distribution chart. This chart tells us (and developers) the percentage of active Android devices and the current version of Android they're running. We'll try and make this quick. For the month of May 33% of active Android devices — those that have recently visited the Google Play Store — are running Jelly Bean, up from last month's 28.4%. Ice Cream Sandwich takes a dip to 25.6% from 27.5% in April, letting us know that a few ICS devices may have recently saw an upgrade to Jelly Bean.

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Computacenter Honoured with NetApp Star Partner Award for 2013

Partner acknowledgment for 50% revenue growth and key customer wins3rd June 2013 - Computacenter, Europe’s leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services today announces that it has received ‘Outstanding Achievement – Star Partner’ at the NetApp 2013 UK&I Partner Awards. The award recognises the company’s commitment to NetApp’s technologies and the success it has achieved with FlexPod as part of its VDI platform.  This has helped to secure 50% annual growth of Computacenter’s NetApp business throughout 2012.

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