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This week we’re jumping right in on the smart TV game with a review of the Samsung UN55ES8000, complete with an ultra-thin body and full 3D action. NASA is getting on board with a lovely new panoramic video of mars for your enjoyment. And for one more completely unrelated piece of news, the folks behind RoboCop 2013 have released a teaser trailer for OmniCorp that you’re just going to love.

The terror game known as Resident Evil 6 is hitting the pre-order list for Tesco. We’ve got a tip on a Samsung Windows RT tablet coming down the line with a Qualcomm processor inside. HP will also be releasing some products soon, with the HP ENVY All-in-One hitting on all fours.

The operating system known as Meego will be revived by Nokia ex-employees. Don Reisinger has written a column by the name of Third-Party Developers will Make or Break the Wii U. You’ll want to check out the Death Star ping-pong that’s popped up this morning. A high court in the UK has decided that the Samsung Galaxy Tab family are no iPads.

Thousands of individuals are knocked offline today as DNSChanger cleanup peaks. The Dark Knight Rises has a brand new 13-minute feature out now that should readily ruin the entire movie for you. Windows 8 RTM coming early august with shelf exposure coming late October.

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So, what happens when a brand new smartphone operating system is fully built and ready for large-scale deployment but ends up being left for dead? If you ask a certain group of former Nokia employees, the answer is that you take it upon yourself to bring the OS back to life. That’s exactly what Finnish startup Jolla is looking to do.

The company, which is made up of ex-Nokia personnel, is planning to develop a bunch of new phones built in the Meego platform. Meego, you may recall, was supposed to be Nokia’s answer to the explosion of Android and iPhone popularity. It was to be Nokia’s last shot to stay relevant in the changing mobile phone market. But just as it finished putting all the bells and whistles together, it ended up partnering with Microsoft and Windows Phone instead.

At the head of the new company is one Marc Dillon, who as you might expect was an integral part of the Meego team. Dillon was Nokia’s chief operating officer and was the principal engineer for the now-defunct mobile OS. “Nokia created something wonderful – the world’s best smartphone product. It deserves to be continued, and we will do that together with all the bright and gifted people contributing to the MeeGo success story,” Jolla said in a statement.

[via Cnet]

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Parting can be such sweet sorrow, and here we are at the end of the road for the MeeGo team over at Nokia. Head of Development of MeeGo Sotiris Makrygiannis did share word that their team will no longer be available to work alongside Nokia. Just to recap, the team over at MeeGo are the very same folks who are behind numerous devices such as the N770, N800, N810, N900, N950 and, more recently (relatively speaking, of course), the N9. Forum threads over at the Maemo forums did point out some folks sharing their appreciation for the work that was done before, as they mentioned their thanks and wished the MeeGo team all the best in their future work. Who else are left working with MeeGo? Well, we do hope that the MeeGo-based Tizen OS should arrive pretty soon – and with plenty of flair, too, to live up to its predecessors’ billing.

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This week will be remembered as a volatile one if you’re a MeeGo fan. Just hours after Nokia posted the PR 1.3 update for N9 owners, the company’s MeeGo development lead Sotiris Makyrgiannis and other team members have confirmed that they’re leaving for greener pastures. The split appears to be an amicable one, with the crew largely going to CloudBerryTec to write mobile apps (including for MeeGo) and consult on software even as they share fond memories. What’s left is a lot of doubt over the fate of the swipe-driven OS itself. Nokia promised years of support for the OS as a side project following the big leap to Windows Phone, but it also hadn’t mentioned the possibility of important staff departures, either. We’ve reached out to the company for a fuller answer — if it turns out that MeeGo development is winding down, the staff shift could be the end to completely in-house OS creation at a company that was once defined by its custom platforms.

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MeeGo isn’t quite dead, and Nokia N9 users are getting another update pushed to their phone to prove it. PR1.3, a firmware refresh that’s been in the works at least since 1.2 was released a few months ago, has finally been made official. But this is no simple bug fix — the latest version of MeeGo offers an impressive 1,000 “quality improvements, including mail, Facebook and Twitter.” According to Nokia’s official support page, the update will also provide several network and connectivity enhancements. The 203MB OTA download is now beginning to roll out, starting with unbranded devices and branching out from there. Continue past the break for the full statement from Nokia.

Update: We’ll give a hat tip out to our commenters, who clued us in on a forum thread that discusses many of these “quality improvements.” It appears that a large number of them are indeed bug fixes. Some of the actual boosts involve camera feature enhancements, higher volume, NFC fixes, better video decoding and more precise copy and paste [thanks BertrandsBox!] We also initially experienced sluggish behavior on the new update, but a factory reset seemed to resolve the concern.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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