Does a privacy policy really promise privacy, and is that Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? Turns out, not everyone is entirely up to speed on how the internet operates or where it came from, with new research from Pew Internet suggesting the US “Web IQ” is patchy at best. The survey firm checked recognition among internet users on topics like … Continue reading
It was weird night in Times Square last night. I had just spilled out of a music show trying to catch any semi-convenient subway train back to Brooklyn. Hours earlier, a grand jury had failed to indict Darren Wilson on murder charges against Michael Brown and crowds gathered in protest, all bathed in the white light of this massive fucking Google screen.
We don’t yet have time travel, but we can travel through time quickly through the power of timelapse photography. Here are your submissions to this week’s timelapse Shooting Challenge .
Are you sick and tired of hitting two keys before each and every hashtag? Have you lost hours at work hunting down the # on your keyboard? Has your pinky been injured from awkward shifting positions? No? Me neither. But isn’t this little hashtag keyboard cuuuuuuuute?
Last night, Michael Brown’s family renewed the call for all police officers to wear body cameras that record their interactions with people. This is smart, but like every other tool we give the police, cameras will only work the way they’re intended to if the cops don’t abuse them.
Looks as if the list of things that Amazon doesn’t sell just got that little bit shorter after the company started connecting people with local contractors. Customers in a handful of trial cities, including NYC and Seattle, can now use an Angie’s Lis…
When it comes to offering great customer service, Comcast’s reputation on the matter is far from being healthy. Every now and then, the company gets put on the map for making its subscribers go through rather tedious experiences — to get an idea, ju…
Samsung must have a secret lab somewhere out there that has tasked their workers with coming up with a bunch of smartphone designs every single day. Otherwise, how else can you explain the slew of smartphones from the South Korean consumer electronics giant that roll out in an all too frequent manner? Another Samsung smartphone should hit U.S. shores soon, where the Samsung SM-G360P has already been given the nod of approval by the FCC. This is a rite of passage that consumer electronics devices need to go through before they hit the market, and the Samsung SM-G360P is no exception.
The Samsung SM-G360P looks to be an entry-level Android smartphone, where it will run on CDMA networks while offering LTE support on bands 25, 26, and 41, making it compatible with Sprint’s cellular network. There is a very strong chance of seeing this appear on Boost Mobile though, since the MVNO’s customer service telephone number was seen printed on the handset’s FCC label.
Other hardware specifications of the Samsung SM-G360P include a 4.5” LCD display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 SoC with 32- and 64-bit support, four Cortex-A53 cores with a 1.2GHz speed, and a 5MP shooter at the back with a front-facing 2MP camera, running on Android 4.4.4 KitKat. It could be known as the Samsung Galaxy Core Prime eventually, but only time will tell.
Samsung SM-G360P Hits The FCC , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
The Huawei Honor 6 was announced earlier in the middle of the year, and it seems that the Honor range is about to get a little bit larger, thanks to the possibility of a Huawei Honor 6X – which we have seen caught in the wild earlier this month. The Huawei Honor 6X is a 5.5″ smartphone that does seem to carry a couple of camera sensors in the rear, and it runs on a 1.8GHz SoC, which will be accompanied by 3GB RAM, a 1080p 5.5” display, a choice of either 16GB or 32GB of internal memory that can be further augmented via a microSD memory card slot, and Android 4.4.4 KitKat as the mobile operating system of choice.
All of these will come in a rather compact body form factor, featuring metal on the sides while it has the dimensions of 150.4mm x 75.68mm x 7.5mm. So far, the Huawei Honor 6X has been approved by TENAA, the Chinese equivalent of the FCC, but it remains to be seen as to how the Huawei Honor 6X’s rather unconventional rear camera setup will work. Do mark December 16 on your calendars if you happen to live in China, as that is when the smartphone will be revealed in that part of the world – albeit we do not have pricing details just yet though.
Huawei Honor 6X To Be Unveiled This December 16th , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
A deal signed back in 2007 made Google the default search engine on iOS devices, and the latest extension of that deal is going to expire next year. This means that there’s a chance Google might end up losing this coveted spot in the Safari browser on iPhones and iPads, and the company’s rivals aren’t making things easy. A report published today claims both Microsoft and Yahoo have reached out to Apple SVP Eddy Cue to argue that now its time to change search engines.
Microsoft and Yahoo obviously want to push their own search engines, which as it stands, have less market share as opposed to Google which is the undisputed king of search as far as usage numbers go. The Information reports today that Microsoft and Yahoo have held talks with Eddy Cue and have floated the idea of Apple finally ditching Google as the default search provider. Each company wants the spot for its search engine.
Microsoft already has a relationship with Apple when it comes to search. Bing is the default search provider used by Siri as well as the revamped Spotlight in OS X Yosemite. On the other hand Yahoo dealt a blow to Google by convincing Mozilla to drop it as the default search engine and adopt Yahoo instead.
It has to be said though that this doesn’t mean users won’t be able to change their preference for the default search engine. Google users are likely to do that anyway, moreover Apple has to see whether it makes sense for their millions of customers to adopt search engines that aren’t as popular as Google. This, and many other factors, might come into consideration before a decision is made by the time the Apple-Google search deal ends in 2015.
Google Risks Losing Spot As Default Search Engine On Safari , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
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