630,000 Samsung Galaxy Note Edge handsets have been sold so far, numbers better than expected
When Samsung released a device with a new form factor alongside its Samsung Galaxy Note 4, little did we know that they would go on to sell 630,000 Samsung Galaxy Note Edge handsets. Yes, the phone with a curved edge has managed to do quite well, and while it might seem a little unusual to say […]
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It’s official: Android 5.1 on Android One devices is real and you can get it now
About an hour ago we posted about a rumour that said Android 5.1 on Android One devices could be a possibility as it was spotted on the official Android One website. As it turns out, it’s completely true as two of the devices that are being released in Indonesia, the Evercoss One X and Nexian Journey, […]
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Get a discount of up to $100 on select Motorola products in the US
Motorola is running a sale on select phones and accessories from now until February 14 that allows you to get a $100 discount when you spend $499 or more, and a $35 discount on a $249 purchase. The sale comes on the heels of the $140 discount that was offered by the manufacturer earlier this week.
Website splash shows Indonesia could be getting Android 5.1 on Android One devices soon
Android 5.0 Lollipop is somewhat of an elusive beast at the moment, with only a handful of devices benefiting from it’s improvements, and fewer still have been updated past the original Android 5.0 release to Android 5.0.1 or Android 5.0.2. Which made it all the more interesting to see that on Google‘s own Android One […]
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Sony spends $15 million on dealing with its cyberattack woes
Instead of announcing its financial results today, Sony had to merely issue a forecast for how it’s fared in the last financial quarter. In case you’ve missed it, that’s because it’s dealing with the cyberattack that not only spilled the beans on much of Sony’s movie business but also knocked out its accounting equipment. To that end, it’s announced that it’ll spend approximately $15 million this quarter to both investigate and recover from the cyberattack. (That’s not to be confused with the $15 million in restitution it offered users last month for a separate security breach.) The company otherwise raised its earning forecast for the year, with net profits of $756 million made from October to December of last year. Sony isn’t yet done restructuring, however. In its mobile business, it now plans to shed 2,100 jobs: a further 1,100 positions to cuts it previously announced last year.
Despite this, the mobile division managed to make a slim profit, which the company put down to a healthier (smaller) range of smartphones — expect more streamlining in 2014. While Sony Pictures was understandably hit hardest by the hack, the arm still managed to pull in over $20 million in profit.
Filed under: Cellphones, Gaming, Home Entertainment, HD, Mobile, Sony
Source: Sony
Google Now issuing mortgage and financial advice with latest update
Google Now has been working on bringing new features and services into the app, and the latest update brings in a unique feature that will be useful for anyone looking into buying a house in the future.
You can ask Google Now how much you can borrow, based on percents and monthly payments, to pull up a mortgage calculator. You can fine tune values in this calculator to figure out what monthly payments will be depending on how much a house would cost, which saves you from having to download an extra app from the Play Store or to sit down and spend an hour figuring it out on your own. Definitely a useful trick.
source: Google Plus
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Sony sells 12 million smartphones in Q4 2014, revises full-year losses
Sony forecast a yearly loss of 230 billion yen ($2.1 billion) in September 2014, but a strong showing in the last three months of 2014 has allowed the manufacturer to cut the net loss forecast for the year to 170 billion yen ($1.4 billion). The company recorded a net profit of 89 billion yen ($756 million) in the last quarter, an increase of 238 percent from the same time a year ago.
NASA wants to send an orbiter to Jupiter’s moon Europa in a decade
NASA’s scientists have been conjuring up mission concepts to Europa for more than a decade, but now they’re absolutely sure that the Clipper concept is the one. So, they’re asking $30 million from the government for a year of preliminary studies starting on October 1st, on top of the $100 million the Congress already gave the agency to construct a viable Europa mission last year. “We believe we have now found the one that is just right,” JPL senior research scientist Robert Pappalardo told Discovery News, where he also discussed more details about the agency’s Goldilocks Europa project. We say “Goldilocks,” because Pappalardo describes earlier concepts as too big, too small or too plain expensive.
The Clipper mission will be sending a spacecraft to do roughly 45 flybys over Europa’s surface within three years, similar to what Cassini did to make a comprehensive map of Saturn’s moon Titan. Since there’s strong radiation on Europa courtesy of Jupiter’s powerful magnetic fields, NASA plans to encase the spacecraft’s “brain” with heavy shielding and to send it on a highly elliptical orbit that minimizes its contact with the gas giant’s radiation belts. This spacecraft will likely be around the size of a school bus at 18-feet-tall, with two 29 x 4 feet solar panels on each side to harness power from the sun.
NASA aims to finish building the Clipper spacecraft in ten years, and if the Space Launch System is also ready by then, then it could carry the orbiter to Jupiter within three years’ time. If it uses current rockets, it will take the unmanned vehicle up to eight years just to reach the planet. What exactly will the spacecraft do once it starts orbiting Europa? Well, since its mission is to study the Jovian moon’s potential for habitability, it will get close to Europa and collect samples whenever available.
For instance, if the moon really does have geysers that shoot out water from beneath its icy shell into space, then the spacecraft will be able to grab airborne particles to analyze. It will also attempt to figure out what the satellite’s red veins are made of, and whether they contain anything organic. NASA, by the bye, has been funding various technologies being tested in Antarctica for eventual use on Europa, such as that deep-sea robot that can reach depths of up to 6,500 feet. But Pappalardo didn’t mention if the orbiter will carry machines capable of diving into Europa’s subsurface oceans, or if those underwater robots are being developed for the second mission to Jupiter’s moon.
[Image credit: NASA/JPL]
Filed under: Science
Source: Discovery
Samsung Knox customers will get a complementary free 3 months of Google Drive for Work
Right on the heels of adding in new features to Knox, Samsung has announced an offer for customers that use the security service. Any customers that sign up for Knox will get a free 3 month trial of Google Drive for Work, which is obviously Google’s own cloud storage service that’s centered around business security.
The offer nets customers a full 1 TB of storage, and if more than 5 users take part, that gets bumped up to unlimited storage. The encryption on the service is top notch, which goes hand-in-hand with Samsung’s take on Knox, so this might be a worthwhile offer for many people.
As a side note, the offer is only available in the US, but it seems like that’s where Google and Samsung are aiming this partnership, anyway.
source: Samsung
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Google Search can now tell you how much that mortgage you’re considering will really cost you
Google’s always building handy new features into Google Search, and now they’re adding a mortgage calculator to the mix. Ask Google how much a 5.015 percent interest rate over 30 years on a $265,000 mortgage will cost you in the end and it will tell you.
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