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HTC working with China govt on smartphone OS

2013-08-28 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news

Taiwanese handset maker pins recovery hopes on helping China develop homegrown software to counter U.S. tech giants.

Update: BlackBerry starts looking for buyer or partner as new OS struggles

2013-08-12 16:12:26| InfoWorld: Top News

Blackberry's board of directors has formed a committee to explore strategic alternatives for the future of the company that could include joint ventures or a sale of the company, as it struggles to turn its new BlackBerry 10 operating system into a success. The news comes after the company announced that it had shipped 6.8 million smartphones and recorded a US$84 million loss during the three months to June 1. Only 2.7 million phones running the new OS were sold, a figure that disappointed analysts.

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Chromecast hacked: Its based on Google TV and Android, not Chrome OS

2013-07-29 16:23:47| Extremetech

Depending on a product's popularity, it's common practice nowadays for a new piece of hardware or software to get hacked almost instantly after release. Google released its cheap media streaming device, the Chromecast, less than one week ago, and it has already been hacked. The surprising part, though, isn't that it was hacked, but what was gleaned from from the process.

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