It looks like Samsung has a ton of new phones in the hopper for the holidays, according to the FCC. Only the most passionate cell phone geeks know that the FCC holds a treasure trove of info on upcoming handsets. considering the FCC has to certify every phone sold in …

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Given the Democratic and Republican conventions and the Labor Day holiday stealing everyone’s attention, I expected that week to be a quiet one when it came to product announcements. But those distractions really only apply to folks in the States, and overseas manufacturers pushed out plenty of new laptop …

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Just in day for the fall semester, we’ve gone and reviewed more than two dozen new back-to-school laptops. For that specific roundup, we stuck to relatively recent configurations that were available on the shelves of …

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Motorola Q Global

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A new Moto smartphone joined the Motorola Q9h in AT&T’s lineup on Thursday. The Motorola Q Global is largely like the Q9h except it ships with Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard Edition and comes with a pinstripe design and metallic silver casing.

We’…

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For years now, Samsung has made laptops for pretty much every market except the US, and generally, we’ve been pretty fine with that arrangement (the Q1 Ultra UMPC is as close as they’ve gotten here).

But now, we’re eager to get our hands on the just-announced Samsung X360. …

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The latest iPhone embarrassment is a safety measure gap that makes it simple to access stored info on supposedly locked iPhones. Apple said Thursday that a software patch to solve the problem is in the works.

An unauthorized user can exploit the safety measure gap simply by double-pressing the button to manufacture an emergency shout. That behavior brings up the owner’s preferred contacts and clicking on a number provides full access to the phone’s features. Clicking on an e-mail provides access to all e-mail. And clicking on a contact name provides full access to all contacts info.

Apple spokesperson Jennifer Bowcock said, “The minor iPhone defense issue which surfaced that week is fixed in a software update which will be released in September.”

There is a simple workaround, Bowcock said: iPhone owners can simply change the settings so double-clicking the emergency button returns a user to the home screen, [...]

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Yahoo plans to smash Mash, just one year after launching the new profile service. Yahoo describes Mash as a new approach to users’ profiles that brings folks together and keeps things interesting.

Mash users are being told that Mash will close on Sept. 29. The company plans to consolidate what it has learned with Mash into a new profile experience.

“We launched Mash as an experimental profile service with the goal of providing an interactive and social way of connecting with others,” said Yahoo spokesperson Devon Corvasce. “Yahoo has announced we will soon be launching a new profile experience (an upgrade to profiles.yahoo.com) to work across the network, in the effort to construct all of Yahoo more social.”

Asked when the new service would launch, Corvasce said, “At that moment, we are not publicly discussing the launch period of the new profile experience. You can look forward to seeing it [...]

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