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Qualcomm Q2 2013 earnings: revenue up to $6.12 billion, profit reaches $2.07 billion

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Qualcomm is having an easy time riding the growing wave of mobile devices. Case in point: its very healthy second quarter earnings. Revenue at the San Diego outfit climbed 24 percent year-over-year to $6.12 billion, while the chip designer’s net p…


Pantech Perception official for Verizon, delivers motion-aware Android on April 25th

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Unofficial details of the Pantech Perception have been around for long enough for the phone to feel old, but the truth is that it’s only just getting started. The 4.8-inch, mid-tier Android smartphone is at last launching with Verizon on April 25…


AT&T bumps up Galaxy S 4 shipping date to April 23rd

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AT&T subscribers might not have to worry that their Sprint, T-Mobile and US Cellular friends will tease them while they’re waiting for their Galaxy S 4 to arrive. While Big Blue was originally promising an April 30th date for the headlining An…


DARPA flaunts HD heat vision camera small enough to carry into battle

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Thermal imaging cameras are highly useful tools for military and law enforcement types, letting them see humans inside buildings or land a helicopter in the fog. High-definition models are too heavy for servicemen to tote, however, so DARPA and a …


Verizon says its Galaxy S 4 is coming sometime in May

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If you noticed that Verizon was silent while other US carriers provided their launch schedules for the Galaxy S 4, you’re not alone — it was the only real holdout among the big four networks. As it turns out, the company was just continuing a small …


DeviantArt brings comic book publishing to the community with Madefire partnership

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“We’re trying to build tools that empower creators to do the next wave of storytelling,” says Ben Wolstenholme. Last year, his Madefire publishing platform was released to a select group of people from the comics industry (like …


300 million Android users in China projected by end of 2013

At the end of 2012, China was host to roughly 224 million Android users. The number, which trumps that of US Android users by about three time, is expected to grow to over 300 million by the end of 2013 on a wave of low-cost options from local manufact…


Privacy laws can’t handle new wave of commercial drones, Senate hearing concludes

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National privacy laws aren’t ready to handle the 10,000 commercial drones predicted to be flying around in US airspace by 2020, nor the surveillance drones that some local police and US law enforcement agencies are using already and t…


‘SimCity’ launches to critical acclaim and crippling server problems

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After a first wave of highly favorable reviews, EA’s long-awaited SimCity proved unable to handle the load of players at launch, leaving them unable to connect. Though the company quickly began upgrading its servers, persistent proble…


Malware and ice cream: the story of a Chinese government hacker

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There has been a wave of cyber attacks on the United States stemming from China, but much about China’s military hacking efforts is still unknown. Now, the discovery of a military hacker’s blog has given researchers a portrait of what…