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IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 12/4/2014

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IDC: Android handsets profitability hit dead end by 2018
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The American market research and analysis firm IDC has just posted its latest smartphone market forecast for the 2014-2018 period. One of the main highlights of the report is the forecasted great jump in market share for the Windows Phone platform and decline for Android and iOS platforms. So far, Windows Phone hasn’t been doing...

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Sinclair’s Spectrum ZX gets revived, pre-loaded with 1,000 retro games
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Back in the 1980’s Sir Clive Sinclair helped created some of the most affordable computers around, and one of his most beloved project is being retrofitted for the new digital age. The Sinclair Spectrum ZX, think of it as the UK’s response to the Commodore  64, is getting a reboot and people looking for a...

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KitKat captures 34 percent Android market share in November
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Lollipop, the latest version of the OS, runs on less than 0.1 percent of all Android devices. Google’s Android distribution numbers come out at the start of every month, and the numbers for November have revealed that Android 4.4 KitKat is now running on 33.9 percent of all devices powered by Google’s mobile OS. That’s...

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Microsoft Lumia 1030 comes with a monstrous 50MP camera
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It hasn’t been very long since Microsoft decided to drop the Nokia branding on its Lumia devices and so far the only device that has been announced with the Microsoft branding has been the Lumia 535 that was unveiled last month. However, we could see the first Microsoft Lumia flagship device get unveiled soon, if...

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Intel may power the next version of Google Glass
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Google’s next iteration of Project Glass will purportedly run on Intel’s mobile offering. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the folks tinkering in Google’s lab will double up the amount of ram in its Glass gadget.  However, that’s not the only bit of interesting news about Google’s take on augmented reality.  Purportedly, Google is...

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Puzzlephone: The three part modular smartphone
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Circular Devices is working on a modular smartphone with three parts, drastically simplifying the concept brought up by companies like Google. It’s called the Puzzlephone and it has three main parts.  The processing part contains the all-important CPU, the battery and secondary electronics, and of course the camera for all things selfies and sharing.  Unlike...

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Report pegs next Samsung flagships as the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge
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The name of the next Galaxy S flagship should come as no surprise to anyone. While it’s barely been two months since the Galaxy Note 4 went up for sale worldwide, rumors of the next Galaxy S flagship have already started swirling around on the internet. Earlier leaks have pointed out Samsung’s so-called Project Zero,...

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Samsung Galaxy Note 4 shows up running Android Lollipop
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The Galaxy Note 4 has finally cropped up with the latest version of Android, following numerous other Samsung devices. Numerous Samsung smartphones have been seen running early builds of Android 5.0 Lollipop in the past few weeks, and Galaxy Note 4 owners have rightly wondered why it wasn’t one of those phones considering it’s the latest Samsung flagship...

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Linshof i8 80GB 8-core coming soon
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Come early next year, we will see a new player join in the booming global smartphone market. The new company we’re talking about is Linshof, a new technology company based in Germany. The company just announced plans of its first smartphone earlier today and it does seem pretty impressive going by the spec-sheet. The company’s...

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Chinese hackers jailbreak iOS 8.2 before official release
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Apple isn’t expected to roll out the iOS 8.2 update for its mobile devices at least until a couple of weeks, but surprisingly Chinese iOS hacker group TaiG has managed to release a jailbreak for the version already. iOS 8.2 is in beta form currently and is only available for developers who are interested in...

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Samsung SM-E700F Affordable Galaxy Phablet Leaked
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Samsung seems to be gearing up to launch a slew of new Galaxy smartphones with single-letter naming convention. The South Korean tech giant recently announced the Galaxy A3 and Galaxy A5 smartphones with metal unibody designs, and now another smartphone with single-letter naming convention has leaked on Indian import tracking portal – Zauba. A smartphone...

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