BlackBerry and Good Technology announced today that BlackBerry is acquiring Good Technology. A post on the Inside BlackBerry blog starts out with, “Today BlackBerry announced plans to acquire Good Technology. For some, this news may be a surprise.” Well, maybe […]
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There are plenty of Android vendors out there, yet somehow Samsung dominates the field. It’s devices are considered the de facto flagships of the Android market and Samsung sells more devices and makes more profit than all of its Android
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Specs Internally the hardware specs of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Active are identical to its Galaxy S6 sibling. It has the same Exynos 7420 processor which merges a 1.5GHz quad-core Cortex-A53 with a 2.1 GHz quad-core Cortex-A57 and the same
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Headlines have been circulating all week about a nefarious hack that has compromised nearly a quarter of a million iPhones. Security researchers discovered an exploit dubbed KeyRaider which has supposedly hacked more than 225,000 iPhone accounts. The news is salacious
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Invitations went out recently for the imminent unveiling of the new iPhone–or at least that’s what we all expect from the upcoming September 9 Apple Event. Sadly, neither the fact that TechSpective is a tech media site nor the fact
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Specs The device is 2.78 inches wide, 5.65 inches tall and just over a quart of an inch thick. The Galaxy S6 weighs 4.9 ounces while the S6 Edge is a tad lighter at 4.6 ounces—possibly a result of the
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Specs The specs of the Nubia Z9 are fairly impressive. It is a flagship smartphone and it can compete—at least on paper—with devices like the iPhone 6 and Samsung Galaxy S6. The Nubia Z9 comes equipped a 2.5GHz 64-bit octa-core
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You know what this world needs? More digital personal assistants. OK. Maybe not. But Facebook is launching a new one anyway: Facebook M. Facebook M is unique among its peers in that there are actual human beings driving the concierge
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Google Now is pretty awesome…assuming you use mostly Google tools and services by default. If you use a Windows PC, though, and rely on Microsoft Office productivity tools and other Microsoft services Cortana makes more sense as your virtual assistant.
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Stay calm and Windows on. Microsoft is not Big Brother and Windows 10 is not an evil tool for spying on you. Granted–it is capable of knowing and monitoring a great many things about you. Sharing information with Windows 10
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