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“BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Mozilla, the non-profit foundation behind the popular Firefox Web browser, is getting into phones. But it’s not stopping at Web browsers — it’s launching an entire phone operating system. The Mountain View, Calif.”
Phil Nickinson and Alex Dobie of are on the ground at Mobile World Congress, and they’ve just gone hands-on with the all new Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0, a tablet that sits roughly between the iPad 4 and iPad mini in size, but boasts the Wacom-style digitizer-gone-mobile that Samsung’s Note line is famous four. Since we’re all one big happy Mobile Nations family, Phil and Alex also brought along their iPad mini so they could put the two competitors head-to-head.
As we’ve been saying for a while, we’re slowly becoming convinced that the 7-to-8-inch form factor represents the sweet spot for tablets. We’ve only spent a short time with it, but the Note 8.0 seems to be a promising entry from Samsung in this category — though we’ve still yet to learn how much it’ll cost. The device is due to launch internationally in Q2 in 3G, Wifi-only and 4G flavors.
So sit back, relax, grab a tasty beverage, and hit play. Then go check out all the rest of the Galaxy Note 8.0 coverage at Android Central, and tell me what you think. How does the Note 8.0 stack up to the iPad mini for you?
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via iMore – The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch blog http://www.imore.com/ipad-mini-vs-galaxy-note-8-hands
“It’s no secret that Twitter is holding a tight rein over third party developers with their limited number of tokens rule.”
Well, this is exciting. We knew it was only a matter of time before El Goog decided to get into the music streaming biz, and according to the Wall Street Journal, the company is currently in talks with several record labels to fire up a Spotify-esque service.
If true, the service is said to become part of Google Music, which only makes sense. Currently, Music allows users upload their own music libraries and stream them from any web browser or Android device, and the addition of a streaming service would likely give users access to unlimited music outside of that collection for a monthly fee. While Spotify and similar services cost around $10 a month, it’s unclear at this time how much Big G would be charging, but it’s probably safe to assume it will be very competitively priced, if not even cheaper.
Similarly, the WSJ is also reporting that the company is looking to start a similar service on YouTube, where users can pay a monthly fee for both music videos and audio-only tracks.
Naturally, there’s no word as to when either service could go live, but it’s not outside the realm of possibility that Google could be looking to conclude talks in the coming weeks and announce official availability at this year’s I/O conference.
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via Android Police
“Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform faced a worldwide outage in its storage services from Friday afternoon because of an expired SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate. The company reported services were restored Saturday.”
“There have been a rash of posts of late from people who have quit Facebook or decided to unfriend everyone they know on the network.”
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