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  Share on Facebook   (773)   Tweet   (259)   Share   Share   (7)   Pin   (1) "Honey, have you seen the Skype icon?" "The what?" "The Skype icon! I  need to Holo-call Ted ." "Did you check by the couch? I think you drunk-holo-dialed your sister last night!" "I'm in the living room now, and I don't see it!" "What about the bedroom?" "I already checked there!" "You know, if you'd just update the HoloLens firmware, you'd have universal voice search!" "No, no, no, it took me days to get everything set up, and I don't want to risk a factory reset... SHIT! SHIT!" "What is it?" "I just kicked over your  Minecraft  castle." " What the hell?!  I've been working on that all morning!" "I'm sorry! When did you last save?" "An hour ago! Can you please undo!" "How do I un-" "Hold...

Microsoft is preparing to debut an update to its Windows Phone 8.1 operating system, which includes expansion of its Cortana personal assistant availability to more regions. The update introduces Cortana to China and the UK in beta form, and Canada, India and Australia in alpha mode. Cortana is only just starting to make waves in the market, several years after Apple debuted Siri, while Android's Google Now has been available for some time. Cortana, named after the artificially intelligent character Cortana in Microsoft's  Halo  video game series, first became available earlier this month with  the release  of the Nokia Lumia 635. Customized Assistant Microsoft is positioning Cortana as a highly customizable personal assistant. The Notebook feature, for instance, stores personal information like a user's interests, reminders, location data, and contacts to learn usage patterns and behaviors. Cortana is designed to offer assistance that is more closely t...

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Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban The Irish data privacy watchdog said it will take a broader look at  Facebook   FB   +2.26% ’s research practices.   Bloomberg Facebook’s psychological experiment on users’ emotions could cause more headaches for the social networking giant. The Irish data privacy watchdog said it will take a broader look at Facebook’s research practices, including previous research activity, to review the company’s use of personal user information, after a paper published in June  showed how Facebook manipulated  the news feeds of nearly 700,000 users to see the effect on people’s emotions. “We will be examining more closely the uses that Facebook is making of personal data for research purposes,” Billy Hawkes, the data protection commissioner for Ireland, told the Journal. Like several large American tech companies, Facebook’s European headquarters are in Dublin. Irish and U.K. data-protection...

Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban The Line messaging app, shown here in a February demonstration, is becoming a hacker target.   Bloomberg News Hackers are targeting users of the mobile-phone messaging application Line, according to the company and Japanese police. Tokyo-based Line Corp. said that in late May it received a report of a hacking case for the first time since introducing the app in June 2011. The  popular app , which enables users to make free voice calls and send free messages, has more than 480 million registered users, the company says. By mid-June, the number of reported cases rose past 300, a Line spokeswoman said. In a typical scam, hackers pretend to be the owner of the account and ask friends to buy prepaid cards on their behalf. Police in Tokyo and Osaka have issued  warnings to users , telling them to keep their usernames and passwords secret. Police in Osaka said 23 reports of hacking have been f...

Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban For  Samsung Electronics   005930.SE   -1.68% , the latest delay in its efforts to sell a smartphone running the  Tizen operating system  marks yet another setback for Samsung’s homegrown alternative to Android. Bloomberg News Last month, at an event in San Francisco, J.D. Choi, Samsung’s lead man on the Tizen project, held up a smartphone and said that the device, the Samsung Z, would go on sale in Russia in the third quarter of the year. The official launch was to come at Thursday’s event for Tizen developers in Moscow, complete with market-ready products. But, in an echo of Samsung’s most recent failure to launch a Tizen smartphone — in Japan  earlier this year  — the launch was canceled just days earlier. Samsung provided no concrete date for the rollout of the commercial version of the phone at the developer summit but said in a statement Thursday that “the smartphon...

Quoting from the site gsmarena Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Historically, the last week of May hasn't seen much action in terms of new smartphone announcements. The market rollouts of flagships announced at our around the MWC have historically dominated, along with rumors about the next big announcements - the new iPhone and, more recently, the new Samsung Galaxy Note. Samsung Galaxy S III released Some of the more interesting stories revolve around the milestones achieved by the Samsung flagships over the year. Two years ago the  Galaxy S III  was just taking the world by storm,  getting a wide by the standards back then 28-country initial release  and  becoming Vodafone's most pre-ordered droid ever . And that was despite  the production issues that plagued the Pebble Blue version . Samsung ships 10 million Galaxy S4 units, adds new colors Fast forward another year and you can see the  Samsung Galaxy S4   scoring its 10 millio...

Quoting from the site gsmarena Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Nokia Lumia 638 quietly went up for pre-order in China with Windows Phone 8.1 on board. The dual-SIM, LTE-capable smartphone is priced at 1,199 Yuan (about $192). Like its  Nokia Lumia 630  and  Lumia 635  siblings, the newcomer features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 SoC with 1.2 GHz quad-core CPU, 4.5” display, and 5 MP main camera. However, the Nokia Lumia 638 packs 1 GB of RAM – twice as much as the rest of the budget-friendly lineup. There is no word on availability of the Nokia Lumia 638 outside of China.

Quoting from the site gsmarena Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Nokia officially unveiled its first TD-LTE phones today – the Nokia Lumia 636/638. They are headed to China Unicom and China respectively, both at the price of CNY 1,300 ($210). The Lumia 638 went up  on pre-order  a couple of weeks ago at a slight lower price of CNY 1,200. The two new smartphones are based on the  Lumia 630 , meaning they have a 4.5" WVGA screen and are powered by a Snapdragon 400 chipset, but the RAM has been doubled to 1GB. TD-LTE is the Chinese flavor of 4G LTE, but the phones are compatible with international LTE for roaming too. The Nokia Lumia 636/638 run Windows Phone 8.1 and come with free navigation from HERE Maps and free Nokia MixRadio music streaming. The Lumia 638 will be available from June 21 and is currently displayed at the Mobile Asia Expo. The Lumia 636 will launch on July 5. They will be available in Black, White, Orange and Yellow.

Quoting from the site gsmarena Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban After having been on sale in countless other places for a long while, the  Nokia Lumia 1320  is finally out in the US. You can get one right away from Cricket, the carrier that was recently acquired by AT&T and now serves as its prepaid arm. The Lumia 1320 is priced at $279.99, and there's obviously no need for you to sign a long-term contract to get it. What's more, if you buy one until July 10, you can receive $50 back in the form of a Visa rebate card. The mid-range phablet can be paired with Cricket's plans that start at $40 per month for unlimited talk, text, and data (with the first 500MB going up to 4G LTE speeds). If you're not sure whether the Lumia 1320 is right for you, you can take a look at  our review  to help make up your mind.

Quoting from the site techcrunch Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Samsung Electronic’s head of mobile design, Chang Dong-hoon,  has resigned  following criticism about the Galaxy S5 smartphone’s lack of pulchritude. Though the Galaxy S5′s design did not actually  deviate too far from earlier models , its looks and textured plastic back were roundly lambasted by reviewers. “I think I audibly let out a sound that was something along the lines of ‘aaaahuughhhh’ upon seeing the shimmering dimpled gold back of the Galaxy S5,” wrote  Derek Kessler at Android Central , summing up many reviewers’ reaction to the device’s appearance. Other Samsung smartphones have also been described as ugly. For example, some users felt that  the Galaxy Note 3′s leather-textured plastic back was tacky . Meanwhile, the Galaxy S4′s  glossy back looked and felt cheap , especially considering that it is one of Samsung’s pricier flagship models. Despite their perc...