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Samsung Electronics is unlikely to bring its first phones running the Tizen operating system to the U.S. market, according to a U.S.-based Samsung executive. Ryan Bidan, Samsung’s director of product marketing for its U.S. mobile operations, said that Samsung has not announced anything specifi
It’s really happening, folks. On January 17, President Obama will remark on “the outcomes of the work that has been done in the review process” for reforming the country’s intelligence practices, Press Secretary Jay Carney said Friday. It’ll be interesting to see exactl
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to resolve a dispute between television broadcasters and Aereo, an Internet start-up that the broadcasters say threatens the economic viability of their businesses. Aereo uses an array of small antennas to stream over-the-air television signals to subscribers, allo
As expected, Oracle and Adobe will release critical patches alongside Microsoft on Tuesday to kick off the year’s inaugural Patch Tuesday batch of security updates. Adobe is slated to release updates to fix critical vulnerabilities in its Reader and Acrobat products for Windows and Macintosh operati
While Nintendo’s Wii U sales continue to struggle, its 3DS handheld console is another story. The game giant announced today that more than 16 million 3DS games were sold in 2013, a 45 percent spike from the year before. In addition, lifetime sales of the 3DS, 3DS XL and 2DS consoles surpassed 11.5
Vietnamese police said on Friday they had launched an investigation into a riot at a multi-billion dollar Samsung factory that left 13 people injured, four critically. Violence broke out between security guards and local construction workers early on Thursday in northern Thai Nguyen province where t
Nikon was showing off its new xxArray here at CES 2014, and if you’ve ever wanted to live in a video game, this may be your chance. The xxArray features an assortment of 48 Nikon DLSRs arranged at various points around your body to shoot you from every conceivable angle. After two hours of processin
Would you buy a Chinese car? Chinese automakers sure hope so. China buys a lot of cars, sales in the country surpassed 20 million in 2013, but its domestic car industry is relatively new. Yet at least one company hopes to make a mark in one of the toughest export markets around: the good ‘ole U.S. o
Remember that talk of a lower-cost Galaxy Note 3? You may be looking at the phone right now. SamMobile claims to have photos of the rumored Galaxy Note 3 Neo, and they show what you’d expect, a slightly smaller, less advanced version of Samsung’s pen-toting flagship. You guys may have he
NASA’s commercial partner Orbital Sciences Corporation launched its Cygnus cargo spacecraft aboard the Antares rocket on Thursday from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia for the Orbital-1 cargo resupply mission to the International Space St
Care.com, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based caregiver services marketplace, on Friday said it expects shares in its planned initial public offering to fetch between $14 and $16 a piece. With 5.35 million shares planned for sale, the IPO could raise up to $85.6 million. Care.com would have a total marke
The E-4B is one of the so-called Doomsday planes. In the event of a nuclear war, a terrorist attack, an alien invasion or, generally speaking, Armageddon, the U.S. Air Force’s four E-4B planes based at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska will be responsible to keep the U.S. Secretary of Defense, the Joi
