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If you happen to be rocking to a Galaxy Nexus over on Verizon, are you one of those who did run into signal issues that did not allow you to stick to a 4G connection for more than just a handful of minutes before the connection dropped? That would be an extremely frustrating experience to say the least, and some folks actually went through not one, two, or three, but half a dozen replacement devices before the issue did not affect the handset. Having said this, is version I515.10 of the software on the device the culprit?

Best Buy thinks so, hoping that the software update which will be introduced to these devices in a couple of days’ time will fix this niggling issue. Having said that, do not get your hopes up that the upcoming update will be the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update, but rather, an interim software fix that will hopefully squash the signal issue bug.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Jelly Bean for Verizon Galaxy Nexus available (pre-release), Your Google Nexus experience with Verizon and Sprint – hot or not? ,

SEATTLE — Marshawn Lynch and the Seattle Seahawks took control of the clock and the scoreboard in the second half, shutting down Tony Romo and the Dallas Cowboys.

Lynch ran for 122 yards and a 3-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter, Seattle’s special teams came up with two huge first-quarter plays that led to 10 points, and the Seahawks beat the Cowboys 27-7 on Sunday.

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Sept 16 (Reuters) – The Boy Scouts of America could face a wave of bad publicity as decades of records of confirmed or alleged child molesters within the U.S. organization are expected to be released in coming weeks.

On Sunday, the Los Angeles Times reported the organization failed to report allegations of sex abuse of scouts by adult leaders and volunteers to police in hundreds of cases from 1970 to 1991. In some cases, the Boy Scouts helped the accused “cover their tracks,” the paper said.

The story was based on a review of 1,600 internal Boy Scouts case files the newspaper said it obtained that detailed accusations against confirmed or alleged child molesters within the youth organization.

About 1,200 “ineligible volunteer” files dating from 1965 to 1985 are set to be publicly released under a June order by the Oregon Supreme Court, including some already reviewed by the newspaper.

Those files played a key role in a 2010 civil trial in which an Oregon jury found the Boy Scouts liable in a 1980s pedophile case and ordered the organization to pay nearly $20 million in damages.

The files will be released within three to four weeks, said Paul Mones, one of the attorneys representing the plaintiff in the Oregon case.

In the wake of revelations about systemic child sex abuse within the Catholic Church and the recent Penn State sex abuse scandal, the files threaten to damage the reputation of one of America’s most trusted institutions.

Mones said the allegations revealed in the Oregon case are not necessarily comparable to the Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandal.

“In the Catholic Church there were overt cover-ups, and I don’t think you see a lot of that here with the Boy Scouts,” Mones told Reuters on Sunday.

The Boy Scouts of America said in a statement on Sunday that while it regrets past incidents where scouts were sexually abused, its current policies require even suspicions of abuse to be reported directly to law enforcement.

“The BSA (has) continuously enhanced its multi-tiered policies and procedures, which now include background checks, comprehensive training programs and safety policies,” the statement said.

The organization said it has maintained an internal “ineligible volunteer” file since at least 1919 to prevent suspected or confirmed child sex abusers from joining or re-entering its ranks.

Boy Scouts of America officials and attorneys have said the files represent only a fraction of the adults who participate as scout leaders each year.

The Boy Scouts have annually counted between 3.5 and 5 million scouts and more than 1 million adult leaders and volunteers among its members since the 1960s, a spokesman for the organization said.

The organization is facing more than 50 pending child sexual abuse cases in 18 states, according to Kelly Clark, another plaintiff attorney in the Oregon case.

Mones said he did not expect many new lawsuits to result from the upcoming release of the Scouts’ files, predicting that statutes of limitation on sex abuse charges in most U.S. states would prevent victims from successful civil or criminal prosecution of alleged molesters. (Reporting by Chris Francescani; Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Eric Walsh)

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More than a week ago, we took a look at the Oppo Find 5 phablet, where we did mention that it will come with a 441 ppi display (weighing in at 5” and having 1920 x 1080 resolution), accompanied by Android 4.1 Jelly Bean as the mobile operating system of choice, not to mention the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor. Well, there are more details to the Oppo Find 5 that we will look at today. Oppo already has laid claim to having the world’s thinnest smartphone and the world’s thinnest quad core smartphone, and now they want to stake their claim on the “world’s first 1080p smartphone”.

Other rumored specifications will include 2GB RAM (similar to certain variants of the Galaxy S3), accompanied by a 12-megapixel rear camera which is accompanied by a 2-megapixel camera in front that would work great for vanity shots, sporting 16GB or 32GB of internal memory as well as a 2,500mAh battery pack to keep it going. The thing is, there is still no word on pricing or availability, so we will just need to be patient and wait.

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What you see above is not exactly the clearest images of the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 that has been pictured in the while, and at the back you are able to make out the Verizon logo and name without mistaking it for a different mobile carrier. Well, we already know that the Galaxy Note 2 has been confirmed for T-Mobile in the US, with the rumors of a Dual SIM Galaxy Note 2 in the pipeline, so why not add to the merry family of Samsung’s latest phablet?

What you see above might not be the real deal due to it being a Photoshop job, but needless to say, we will not really know until Verizon releases an official confirmation on the device itself. At the back, as mentioned above, does show off the “Verizon 4G LTE” logo, which will point towards the fact that it will run on Verizon’s hyperfast LTE network. No idea on when it will be sold in retail stores, so stay tuned.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Samsung Galaxy Note 2 headed for Verizon, and more [rumor], Samsung Galaxy Note 2 confirmed for T-Mobile US,