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These days an Android 4.4 KitKat update isn’t going to excite most people, folks are looking towards Lollipop more now, but those who are on devices that have yet to receive this update will certainly take a gander. The Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom has finally received the KitKat update on AT&T. The carrier’s subscribers can get this update on their Galaxy S4 Zoom units starting today.

It goes without saying that this update has taken its sweet time to arrive. It has been over a year since both this smartphone and KitKat were launched.

AT&T is rolling out this update over-the-air, as software updates are in this day and age. Carrying version number C105A_KKUCUBNI1, this update will bump up Android version on the device to 4.4.2.

All of the important security and stability related fixes are included in this update, apart from minimal changes to TouchWIz user interface and the overall software. The highlight of this device is certainly is rear camera and users should expect to see improvements to the camera software following this update.

Once the update goes live in your region a notification should automatically pop up on the device telling you that an update is available. Alternatively you can try mashing the update button in the Settings menu to get your hands on KitKat.

AT&T Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom Android 4.4 Update Released

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Samsung has finally started rolling out the Android 5.0 Lollipop update for this year’s flagship smartphone. Customers in many markets of the world have been anxiously waiting for this update to drop. Not too long ago LG released Lollipop for the G3 in Poland and Samsung has decided to follow suit. Anyone and everyone in Poland with a Samsung Galaxy S5 model SM-G900F can now download the Android 5.0 Lollipop update.

This is the first such official release of its kind for the Galaxy S5. Previously we have seen leaked Android 5.0 builds running on the Galaxy S5 but no stable ones have been leaked as yet.

Those who know their model numbers will be aware that SM-G900F is the international unlocked variant of the Galaxy S5. This means that the Android 5.0 Lollipop update will be appearing for this particular variant in other markets as well, other European countries are likely going to be the first ones to receive the Lollipop update.

We must address the all-important question here. There’s no concrete release timeframe for this update as far as North America is concerned. Samsung certainly hasn’t confirmed any dates and we must keep in mind that delays at the hands of mobile carriers will also go a long way in delaying the release of Lollipop for end users.

Android 5.0 For Samsung Galaxy S5 SM-G900F Released In Poland

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Not too long ago Google unveiled a handful of new Nexus products and that’s when we got to see the much rumored Nexus 9 tablet. The tablet has been available for purchase through a variety of retailers and resellers, T-Mobile was supposed to offer it soon as well, but things have taken a turn for the worse at the carrier as far as this tablet is concerned. T-Mobile is postponing the Nexus 9 launch for the time being.

Internal communication made public by TmoNews confirms that the launch of Google Nexus 9 has been postponed. T-Mobile hasn’t exactly said what is the reason behind this delay and no new date has been confirmed as yet. The internal communication only says that T-Mobile will launch the Nexus 9 “on a date to be determined.”

The new Nexus devices have had a bit of hard time on T-Mobile this year. Nexus 6 launch at the carrier had to be delayed by a week because shipments hadn’t arrived, and even when they did, delivery of 64GB models was an issue in itself. Now the Nexus 9 launch gets postponed through no apparent fault of the carrier.

Previous reports had suggested that the Nexus 9 will be launched by T-Mobile in December, even though a date hadn’t been officially confirmed by the carrier. Now we’ll have to wait and see when it makes an announcement regarding this.

T-Mobile Postpones Nexus 9 Launch

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 Barnes & Noble today announced the termination of its commercial agreement with Microsoft surrounding the Nook business. This comes alongside word that Nook device sales and segment revenues fell sharply year over year. B&N states that ending the partnership gives the company greater “operational and strategic flexibility.” No longer partners in the Nook business, Microsoft… Read More

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On a glorious September evening in Washington, the British Ambassador’s Residence in Washington was the venue for a send-off party for the 2014 class of Marshall Scholars. As host and keynote speaker respectively, we delivered our words of advice to over 30 brilliant young Americans embarking on a period of postgraduate study in the United Kingdom. Then we mingled and swapped stories with the new class. For many of them the next couple of years will become the defining moments in their young adulthood. All of this has been made possible by a generous grant from the British Government established by Act of Parliament in 1953 in gratitude for the Marshall Plan that helped rebuild Britain and Europe from the ashes of World War II.

The Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission (MACC) – the public body that administers the Marshall Scholarship – together with the US alumni group, the Association of Marshall Scholars, have been celebrating this 60th anniversary year with a series of major events and lectures on both sides of the pond, launched by our Patron, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Each will be an occasion to celebrate the contribution which higher education links make to our deep transatlantic partnership.

This week the MACC announced the 31 winners of this year’s competition, who will go on to comprise the class of 2015. This is the culmination of a rigorous process in which selection committees across the country sifted applications and interviewed from a pool of hundreds of the most talented students in the United States. These committees are composed of British Government officials working alongside American volunteers – many of them Marshall Alumni – who are leaders in their fields.

The winners come from all corners of the country, represent great diversity of gender, ethnicity and socio-economic background, and will study at universities across the United Kingdom. There they will join thousands of other Americans, some of them supported by other prestigious scholarships such as Rhodes, Gates and Fulbright. According to the latest QS World University Rankings, British universities now comprise four of the top six in the world, so it’s no surprise that we remain the top study abroad destination for American students. Indeed Britain is the destination for 12% of all the international students in the world.

Our own experiences in British higher education- one at New College, Oxford, the other as a Marshall Scholar at Queen’s University Belfast and the London School of Economics – helped prepare us for our careers in public service. One as a career diplomat who has served as Ambassador to Turkey, France and now the United States; the other in US political life, currently as the White House Director of Legislative Affairs charged with navigating some not uncomplicated relations with Congress.

Many Marshall Scholars – such as Peter Orszag, former White House Budget Director; or Bill Burns, the recently retired Deputy Secretary of State – also go into public service. But Marshalls are active in all walks of life: entrepreneurs and innovators like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and the late musical pioneer Ray Dolby; Pulitzer Prize winners including Tom Friedman, Anne Applebaum and Dan Yergin; top lawyers like Stanford’s Kathleen Sullivan and Supreme Court Justice Stephen Beyer; leading academics and scientists such as Nobel Prize winning chemist Roger Tsien; and groundbreaking stem cell researcher Doug Melton.

These and almost two thousand other Marshall Scholars have, over the last 60 years, made an enormous contribution to the well-being of our two countries, and the collaboration and partnership that characterises our special relationship. We are delighted that many alumni have chosen to give back by contributing to an endowment fund that will complement British government resources and help send even more talented young Americans to the UK.

So, once again, we thank our Alumni, offer our congratulations to the incoming Class of 2015, and invite other outstanding students who aspire to further their education abroad in the United Kingdom to consider applying to become a Marshall Scholar in the future.