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HTC accuses Samsung of using component supplies as a 'competitive weapon'

Android In-Call

Samsung occupies an interesting place in the smartphone market — it's one of the biggest smartphone vendors in the world, and it also manufactures key components, including displays and processors. There have been indications that Apple wants to move away from relying on Samsung for components for future iOS devices, and now an HTC executive is speaking out about how Samsung uses its power in...

Google Calendar for Android updated with new appointment interface, custom colors, and more

Google Calendar update

Google may not have revealed a new version of Android at I/O this year, but that's not stopping the company from adding new features to the platform: it's just announced a new version of Google Calendar. According to Google's blog post, the new version features a number of aesthetic updates, including a redesigned interface for picking the date and time of an appointment, and the ability to use custom colors — letting users cause certain appointments to stand out. The interface for picking time zones has been refreshed, and Google has also tweaked how users schedule repeating events. The new Google Calendar will be rolling out in the Play Store over the next few hours, so if you don't see it right now you'll probably want to check back later — though you'll have to be running Android 4.1 or higher to take advantage of the new...

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D11: All the news from All Things D's 2013 conference

All Things D has kicked off its yearly D conference, and as usual, an interview with Apple's CEO started proceedings. But Tim Cook isn't the only speaker of note to be appearing at D11 — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Tesla Motors and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, Sony CEO and president Kazuo Hirai,...

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Using Google Glass: at the Indy 500 and Coca-Cola 600

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I am not a shy man.

I stood in the bathroom of my hotel room in Indianapolis, repeating those words to myself in the mirror. I needed to find courage in those words. I needed to find resolve.

I needed to find the strength to walk downstairs to the hotel bar wearing Google Glass.

I was also slightly worried about wearing a gray jacket with gray pants and gray shoes, but in the end no one really asked me about that.

first I had to make it downstairs

I was in Indianapolis as a guest...


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LG announces white Nexus 4 for global rollout over 'the next several weeks'

Nexus 4 White

LG has finally confirmed it will launch a white variant of the Nexus 4. Originally leaked back in January, the device features the same 4.7-inch 1280 x 768 IPS display, quad-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, and 2GB of RAM as its black counterpart. The company says the Nexus 4 White will go on sale in Hong Kong on May 29th, before rolling out in "select markets" in Asia, North America, Europe, and the Middle East in the coming weeks....

Samsung unveiling new Android and Windows devices on June 20th

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Samsung is holding an event in June to unveil new mobile devices. The London show will focus on the company's Galaxy brand, which covers its Android phones and tablets, and the newer Ativ brand, which is the unified name for its Windows Phones, as well as its Windows 8 and Windows RT laptops, tablets, and hybrids. The event will be called "Samsung Premiere 2013," and will kick off at 2PM ET (7PM BST) on June 20th. As usual, Samsung will be...

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