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Moto X is engineering a new way to unlock your phone
Moto X claims this temporary digital "tattoo" will save you the trouble of unlocking your phone dozens of times a day.
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FTC sues AT&T for throttling bandwidth of 'unlimited' data customers
Mobile customers who exceeded a monthly data cap had their connections slowed by as much as 90 percent, the agency says
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Lenovo Now Officially Owns Motorola
Back in January, Lenovo announced that it was going to buy Motorola Mobility from Google for $2.91 billion. Now, the deal's signed and sealed.
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Motorola and LG vie to be first with Android 5.0 update
The race to upgrade smartphones to Android 5.0 is on, with LG Electronics and Motorola vying with Google's Nexus devices for bragging rights.
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Matti Makkonen: Finnish pioneer of texting tech dies
Matti Makkonen, who pioneered SMS technology and launched the worldwide sensation of texting, has died.
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Goodbye Moto: How Chicago's greatest tech company fell to earth
Under the Galvin family, Motorola had soaring achievements. This was the company, remember, that invented the cellphone. Those days are over. What went wrong?
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Cortana for Android gets leaked ahead of official launch
Cortana on Android has just been leaked on the internet. Few months ago, Microsoft announced that the personal assistant will be making its way to Android and iOS. The personal assistant was supposed to come to Android later this month, however, it has just been leaked and it is functional.
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Photo Magic: Create Custom Photo Books with Text Messages
The 21st century appears to be all about speed: order a pizza from your phone with a tap of your finger, dispense your favorite coffee with a push of a button, and now with a simple text message, you can order a customized photo book with all your favorite moments.
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Call Donald Trump's Cell Phone and Ask Him About His Important Ideas
Last month, American reality show entertainer turned American political system entertainer Donald Trump publicized presidential rival Sen. Lindsey Graham’s cell number, urging his supporters to “try it.” In the spirit of open and fair political debate, we now bring you Trump’s number.
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The Cheap Phones Quietly Winning the U.S.
In most AT&T, Sprint, or T-Mobile stores, it takes a while to find the ZTE phones, buried in the back, past the latest from Apple and Samsung. But they’re there. In AT&T stores it’s the ZTE Maven, which has a screen, speakers, and a processor with capabilities somewhere between the iPhone 5 and 6. As Tony Greco, ZTE’s head of U.S. retail marketing, puts it, “These were state-of-the-art features two years ago.” The Maven’s draw, really, is price.
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North Korea blocks mobile phone signals along China border
North Korea is blocking wireless signals along the China border, preventing mobile phones operating on Chinese memory chips from receiving calls. A source located at the China-North Korea border, speaking to Yonhap on the condition of anonymity, said Pyongyang has stepped up its restrictions on cellphone reception along its 808-mile border with China. Signals from Chinese cellphone towers increasingly...
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Apple’s Clever Tech Makes the iPhone 6s Nearly Waterproof
Over the past few days, you may have seen reports that the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus are waterproof. In fact, not just reports; there now exist multiple videos that show Apple’s new smartphones surviving extended periods of water submersion. Those videos aren’t fabrications or pranks. Apple’s new iPhones really do hold up under water, thanks to a brilliant new technique that the company quietly pioneered.
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Windows 10 Mobile Finds Its Flagship Smartphones
As you might have guessed from the naming convention, the phones look identical other than size, and both look akin to the Nokia Lumia handsets of years past. Or like most smartphones of the last few years, sleek rectangles with mild camera humps in the back.
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Europe finally abolishes mobile phone roaming charges
Members of the European parliament have voted through new rules that will scrap mobile roaming charges and stop holidaymakers returning home to the nightmare of a massive phone bill racked up on their travels. The vote sees the deal reached between European authorities in June to scrap increased costs for calls, text and data while roaming with the EU, passed into law.
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Mozilla has killed the Firefox phone
Today, Mozilla revealed that it will no longer develop or sell Firefox OS smartphones and devices, ending a two and a half year effort to break into the low-end smartphone world. The news was originally announced at a developer event and Mozilla later confirmed it to TechCrunch. Mozilla's original goal for Firefox OS was to deliver it to emerging markets at the very low-end of the smartphone spectrum. At one point, it even tried to push for a $25 smartphone...
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Lenovo is getting rid of the Motorola brand
Moto phones will soon no longer carry the Motorola branding. They will instead be known as Lenovo phones, while maintaining the "Moto" nickname and the winged "M" logos. Lenovo bought the Motorola...
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How a simple SIM card makes farmers more efficient—and possibly saves lives
India's GreenSIM initiative exposes rural farmers to tech and essential real-time info. By Julianne Tveten.
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New Indoor Positioning System Tracks Your Phone Using Sound Waves
As impressive as GPS and other radio signal-based positioning technologies are, they pretty much all crap out once the device-to-be-localised is inside. This is just a fundamental property of radio waves—put something solid enough, such as most building materials, in front of them and they will attenuate.
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Motorola's legendary RAZR flip phone is making a comeback
The year was 2004, and Motorola had just announced what was then an insanely thin flip phone, the RAZR V3. It was -- and still is -- a head-turner, and eventually over 130 million units were sold in total. Such were the glorious days of Motorola. Twelve years later, the now Lenovo-owned brand appears to be prepping a relaunch of this legendary model, according to its teaser video of a nostalgic walkthrough at a high school. "Flip back to the Razr days of yesteryear and get ready for the future."
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How Might Cell Phone Signals Cause Cancer?
An expert answers questions about what could happen at the cellular level after a report links radiofrequency signals to tumors in rats. The release of a study Friday linking cancer in rats to the type of radiation emitted by cell phones presents some of the strongest implications in more than two decades of research that higher doses of such signals could be linked to tumors in laboratory animals—unsettling news for billions of mobile phone users worldwide. Still missing, however, is a clear understanding of exactly how radiofrequency (RF) radiation used by mobile phones might create cellular-level changes that could lead to cancer.
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