Expensive Nexus 5 cases hit the Play Store, are you buying?

Also hitting the Google Play Store this afternoon were a variety of OEM cases for the Nexus 5. Apple is often mocked around Android parts for offering expensive accessories, and it looks like Google is following in their footsteps. Jumping onto the Google Play Store you'll find bumper and flip cases for the Nexus 5, in a good range of colors. More of a full case than a “bumper”, LG's bumper cases retails for $35 and comes in black, gray, red and yellow color options. The material seems to be TPU in nature, but Google claims they're hard on the outside, soft and rubbery on the inside.



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Low-Cost 3D-Printed Prosthetic Built By Father For His Disabled Son

We've seen stories of people creating their own prosthetics in the past, but Leon McCarthy's story is one that certainly is one of the most interesting as he and his father have been working together to not only build him a low-cost 3D-printed prosthetic, but to also modify the original design in order to create a new one when he outgrows the previous hand. . Leon McCarthy was born without fingers on one of his hands as a result of limited blood flow while he was in the womb, causing his hand to never fully develop.

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Sony Publishes List Of PS4 Launch Titles

The excitement around the launch of the PlayStation 4 is certainly building as we're now just 15 days away to the start of the next generation of video game consoles. As we're so close to the PS4′s launch, Sony has been proactive in helping its potential customers understand everything there is to know concerning the console. Just yesterday, Sony published an “Ultimate” FAQ surrounding the PlayStation 4, which they published what games will be available at the console's launch.

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Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini Press Render Leaks Online

Samsung may have teased the upcoming release of the Galaxy S4 Mini to AT&T, Sprint and Verizon for release some time in November, but its Galaxy S3 Mini has yet to make itself available across all of U.S. carriers. The availability of the Galaxy S3 Mini in the U.S. has been slow, but it looks like may not be waiting long for Verizon's to be released as @evleaks has just outed what looks to be a press render for the device.
When the Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini hits Verizon Wireless, it looks like there will be an option to pick it up in blue, although at this time it's unknown if that will be the only color option made available.

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ASUS Transformer Pad TF701T now available - Tegra 4 processor, 2560x1600 display, 2GB DDR3 RAM

During IFA 2013, ASUS announced a plethora of goods soon to be released unto the world. One of those special gadgets was their refreshed Transformer Pad convertible tablet. Last year we had the TF700T, and now comes the newly upgraded ASUS Transformer Pad TF701T. The TF701T features all the top-of-the-line specs you'd expect from of a high-end Android tablet. ASUS has upgraded the screen resolution and processor to better compete in today's market.

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Lenovo Hires Ashton Kutcher As Product Engineer

Lenovo turned heads recently when they announced their Yoga Tablet, which are two Android 4.2.2 tablets that come with large capacity batteries that hope to extend their use past what we would consider would be an acceptable amount of battery life. It looks like that wasn't the only big bit of news Lenovo had up its sleeve as apparently they hired Ashton Kutcher to be the company's latest product engineer as well as their celebrity pitchman.

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CyanogenMod 10.2 nightlies come to Moto X, Sony Xperia Z Ultra

More folks will soon be able to get in on the CyanogenMod fun on some of the latest smartphones available. The ROM developers have made nightlies available for both the Motorola Moto X (certain unlocked versions, anyway) and Sony's Xperia Z Ultra. This means you can get flashable builds on an almost-daily basis, giving you an early crack at the CyanogenMod experience before it goes full stable for your device. That said, you should know that flashing nightlies comes with a risk.

For starters, nothing is promised to be stable.

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Sony Xperia L now getting Android 4.2.2

Sony has started seeding Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean for the Xperia L smartphone. The update is available through the PC Companion and weighs about 700MB. In addition to bringing your Android version to 4.2.2, the update packs several tweaks to the home-baked launcher. Those include a new homescreen, improved search and app sorting, updated media apps (Walkman, Album and Movies), easier Small Apps and two new camera features - Burst mode and Auto Scene Recognition.

The guys over XperiaGuide have built a rather detailed changelog. Here it is:

So, if you own a Sony Xperia L, you should keep an eye on your notification area.

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AdaptiveMobile Launches Tethra™, the Industry’s First Big-Security Platform Designed to Protect Service Providers

Hadoop-based Big Data Analytics Platform provides active real-time threat detection and response, to meet the volume and complexities of service provider securityDublin and Dallas, October 30, 2013 – AdaptiveMobile, the world leader in mobile security, today announced the launch of Tethra™, a Hadoop-based “Big-Security” threat analytics platform designed to defend service provider networks. Tethra™ provides powerful real-time continuous monitoring of threats, evaluating the billions of events occurring every day within the typical mobile and fixed line service provider.

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Smaato Nominated for 2013 Effective Mobile Marketing Award

Global Real-Time Bidding Ad Exchange Continues Garnering Industry Recognition with Latest NominationSan Francisco, California – October 30 , 2013 – Smaato, the leading global mobile Real-Time Bidding ad exchange and SSP, has been nominated for an Effective Mobile Marketing Award in the category for Most Effective Mobile Advertising Platform/Network, which honors achievement in the efficiency and effectiveness of the platform or network as a mobile advertising solution. This year’s awards attracted almost 250 entries across more than 20 categories.

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Lutz says Washington killed Pontiac, next G6 was to be ATS derivative

How many people think Buick or GMC should have gotten the axe instead of Pontiac. You can't see it, but I'm raising my hand. Autoweek reports that former Vice Chairman of GM, Bob Lutz, has indicated that things didn't have to end up the way they did. "The Feds said, 'Yeah, how much money have you made on Pontiac in the last 10 years?' and the answer was, 'Nothing.'"

Watch Lutz speak above for yourself, and take note that he makes his statement about "The Feds" at around 2:14:39.

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Chevy offers free pumpkin stencils for Halloween

Halloween is just a couple days away, but if you haven't carved your pumpkin yet (and you're in need of some cool ideas), Chevrolet has got you covered. Head on over to the Chevy Facebook page for an assortment of stencils to create cool, Chevy-themed jack-o'-lanterns, but bring your X-Acto knife because some of them look very challenging. While there are plenty of designs, our favorites are the spooky Chevy Volt (shown above) with its bat wings and Dracula teeth and the Chevy Spark caught in the spider web. Of course, judging by the "likes" on that page, fans love the Stingray logo and Camaro face designs the best.

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Here's what it's like to have a Moto X and use Windy Day

Today, Motorola unveiled the first of many stories coming into the Motorola Spotlight Player app.  If you aren't aware, the Motorola Spotlight Player is a new storytelling canvas for the Moto X, that plans on bringing content to your device and displaying it in new, innovative ways. Meet Windy Day, the first story designed for smartphones and only available on the Moto X. Thanks to the highly tuned hardware and software of the Moto X, the first story, Windy Day, highlights the power behind the Moto X's Adreno 320 GPU.


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m2fx and Mustek Limited meet growing fiber demand with advanced pre-termination plant

Major investment expands partnership and delivers complete solution to expanding Southern African marketsJohannesburg and London, 29 October 2013 - To meet the needs of the rapidly developing regional broadband market, Mustek today opened a new optical fiber pre-termination facility. Situated in Johannesburg, the new plant will enable Mustek to supply operators and installers with complete solutions built on m2fx’s innovative Miniflex fiber cable, microduct and protection tube range.

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Vodafone Ireland Expands Mobile Security Offer for Business

90% of businesses using smartphones for work drive need for mobile securityDublin, 29th October 2013: Vodafone Ireland today announced a significant expansion to its mobile security offering for business customers with new tailored Mobile Device Management (MDM) packages to fit a business’ specific security requirements.  Smart devices being used for work can now be protected and secure – making it simple for businesses to manage an employee’s remote access to company information and systems.  This service is a cost-effective solution for business as it requires minimal up-front investment and i

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Skyscape Cloud Services Announces Availability Of Services On G-Cloud 4

The assured cloud services provider also reveals huge growth in number of channel partners due to success of recently launched Partner ProgrammeLondon – 29th October 2013 – Skyscape Cloud Services Limited, the easy to adopt, easy to use and easy to leave assured cloud services company, today announced that the full range of its accredited cloud services will be available on the G-Cloud Framework – G-Cloud 4.  Skyscape’s Pan Government Accredited (PGA) cloud services, which support data protectively marked from IL0 to IL3, will be available to the 30,000 UK public sector organisations eligible t

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ViewSonic Announces 24″ VSD241 Smart Display

We've heard of smartphones, smart TVs, smartwatches, but smart displays. Granted this isn't exactly new but it's not one that we regularly come across but that is exactly what display manufacturer, ViewSonic, has recently announced. The company has recently announced their second-generation smart display which comes in the form of the VSD241 and is a 24" monitor that comes with Android 4.2 Jelly Bean with an NVIDA Tegra 3 quad-core chipset under the hood. There is also a smaller VSD221 which is presumably the same device, just with a smaller screen at 22".

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Race Recap: 2013 Indian Grand Prix mostly calm with chances of Championships

The smog around the Buddh International Circuit got so bad over the weekend that the FIA had to change the practice sessions. Then the soft tires that Pirelli brought to be the options were found to degrade so quickly that teams had to change their qualifying and race strategies. The only man it didn't seem to affect was – guess who. – Sebastian Vettel, who put his Infiniti Red Bull Racing on pole position.







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Chevy keeping fleet-only Impala Limited alive until 2016

The new 2014 Chevrolet Impala is, by all accounts, a far superior vehicle to the model it replaces. In fact, it was the first American car to beat out the import competition and earn distinction from Consumer Reports as the best sedan on the market. But not everyone wants the new and improved model.

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Xbox One Dashboard Highlighted In New Demo Video

We're just a few weeks from the release of the Xbox One, and as a result, Microsoft is going full force marketing the next-generation console. Microsoft released a new commercial for the Xbox One that invited people around the world to use the console to game, watch sports and to carry out conversations through Skype. Today, Microsoft wants potential Xbox One owners a look at what they can expect from the console's dashboard in a new video the company published yesterday. In the new video, a Xbox One owner takes us through some of the console's dashboard, showing its performance is greatly improved over the Xbox 360′s dashboard.

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Eau Good water bottle makes tap water taste like bottled water

I like the taste of bottled water much more than the taste of the water that comes out of a tap. But buying bottled water is both expensive and wasteful due to all the plastic. Enter the Eau Good water bottle designed by European design firm Black and Blum. The Eau Good is a BPA free plastic bottle that has been specially designed to hold a Binchotan filter. What is Binchotan you ask? It's a natural charcoal filter made from oak that balances the pH, reduces chlorine and mineralizes drinking water to make it healthier and better tasting. Each filter lasts up to 6 months before it needs to be replaced.

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LG G Flex Announced With Curved Display And Self-Healing Powers

Samsung and LG were both said to launch phones with curved displays. Samsung launched theirs: the Samsung Galaxy Round, and now week later LG has revealed theirs as well: the LG G Flex. The G Flex has been rumored and leaked for a while now but it seems that LG has finally gone official with the handset over in South Korea where the device is expected to see a release next month and will be arriving on all 3 major carriers in the country. Unlike the Samsung Galaxy Round where the curvature of the display is from side to side, LG's own curved display is more from top to bottom, as you can see in the image above.

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Android Etch: an Indiegogo project using lasers to engrave Google's bugdroid logo on glasses

Nearly two years ago, Joshua Muñoz took to Google+ to display the fruits of his labor, pint glasses etched with Google's bugdroid logo. As expected, Android fans fell in love with his creation and wanted to know where and how they could get them. The time has finally come, thanks to Indiegogo, Android Etch was born. Android Etch is looking to raise $12,745 to purchase a state of the art laser engraving machine from Epilog Laser Company.


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BlackBerry Removes Queue For BBM For iOS And Android

BBM for iOS and Android is without doubt a success, given that the app saw 10 million downloads in a 24-hour period. However like we mentioned last time, the 10 million downloads might not necessarily mean 10 million active iOS and Android BBM users since there was a queue that one would have to place themselves in to start using the service. Presumably this was put into place to help take the load off BlackBerry's servers from the influx of iOS and Android users.

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ABT Sportsline coming to US, premiering AS6 at SEMA

ABT Sportsline, known as ABT Tuning from its founding in 1967 until 1991, is a German aftermarket parts and tuning company that has focused on enhancing Volkswagens and Audis since the VW GTI bowed in 1978 (in Europe, at least) and races competitively in DTM (Germany's touring car racing series). The company has kept its roots in Europe for all of these years, but will debut the AS6, based on the Audi A6, at the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) in a couple weeks before opening up shop in Los Angeles in early 2014.

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Sony SmartWatch 2 review: a fair effort that still hasn't cracked it

Hardware. Watches have a tough job from the outset. Not only must they fulfill their functional purpose, but they also have an intrinsic link to style, image and fashion. A good watch must stand up to both tasks, ahem, at hand (sorry). What looks good to you, however, will largely be a matter of taste, and there are plenty of pictures here and above to let you decide if it's to your liking. What we will say, however, is that it might not fit all occasions (it's definitely not a dress watch for example), but it won't look too out of place with most smart-casual outfits.









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Nokia Lumia 1020 has its price slashed to $99.99 in the US

Nokia Lumia 1020 saw another major price cut in the United States. The mobile photography powerhouse is now available for $99.99 for new AT&T customers who sign a two-year contract. The attractive deal is offered by Amazon. Existing AT&T customers who renew their contracts will be offered the Nokia Lumia 1020 for $149.99.

When announced for AT&T, the Nokia Lumia 1020 raised a few eyebrows with its $299.99 on-contract pricing. Currently, the carrier offers the device for $199.99 in its retail stores and online.

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Volvo's plan for China: sell them on the clean air inside the car

Large Chinese cities aren't known for having clean air. Just this week, the Chinese city of Harbin filled with record levels of smog after starting the city's coal-fired heating system, according to CNN. But Li Shufu, the chairman of Geely, Volvo's parent company, says the automaker's astute attention to cabin comfort in areas such as air filtration is a selling point for the Swedish automaker in China, Forbes reports. Shufu says when he is inside a Volvo, he feels like he's in Northern Europe, but when the door is opened, he feels like he's in Beijing.

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HTC execs talk tablets and wearables

In a recent joint-interview HTC's top two executives, Cher Wang (Chairwoman) and Peter Chou (CEO) discuss their changing roles with the company and draws us a picture of what mobile looks like to HTC as they continue to climb the uphill battle in the mobile-space. Mr. Chou is handing over a sizable part of his duties to the Chairwoman so he can focus his energy on the innovation part of the company.

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Samsung Patent Reveals Possible Google Glass-Like Eyewear

We've heard a number of consumer electronics companies have reportedly started to create their own version of Google Glass, with Microsoft being the latest company to allegedly throw their hat into the smart eyeglasses ring. According to The Wall Street Journal, another giant tech company seems to also be developing their own smart glasses, and it's a company we're sure you've heard of: Samsung. A patent that was submitted by Samsung registered a design for eyeglasses that is able to show information from a smartphone to enable users to take calls, similar to how their Galaxy Gear functions.

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Ferrari on Kubica: 'I don't think he will be back' in F1

According to Scuderia Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali, Robert Kubica's days of Formula One are over. You'll recall that Kubica, the former BMW Sauber and Lotus Renault ace was injured on a stage of the Ronde di Andora rally in a Skoda Fabia S2000, when he lost control and the car was impaled by a guard rail. Kubica's injuries made his return to racing of any form questionable, although just one week ago, it was announced he'd be moving up to the top rung of the World Rally Championship with Citroën.

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Honda settles class-action lawsuit over oil-burning V6s

Although we hadn't heard of this issue before, Automotive News reports that Honda has agreed to settle a massive class-action lawsuit brought against it for engine trouble potentially affecting nearly 1.6 million vehicles. The lawsuit includes Accord (2008-12), Odyssey (2008-13), Pilot (2009-13) and Crosstour (2010-13) models equipped with the 3.5-liter V6 with Variable Cylinder Management, which might experience engine misfire, excessive oil burning and premature spark plug fouling issues.

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Surface Pro 2 Teardown Results In Extremely Low Repairability Score

Microsoft released two new tablets yesterday, the Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 across 21 countries including the U.S., and as you'd expect with a big product launch as this, the folks at iFixit have gotten their hands on the Surface Pro 2 to completely dismantle and see what its sweet, sweet innards contain. The iFixit team completely took apart the Surface Pro 2 and found Microsoft didn't change much in terms of the device's mechanics for the improved tablet. This means if you ever need to get it repaired, you're going to have a bad time.

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Nokia Lumia 2520 Will Be Coming To AT&T And Verizon

Just yesterday Nokia took the wraps off their tablet, the Nokia Lumia 2520 and for those living in the US and were thinking of picking up the device, you might be interested to learn that the 4G LTE version of the Lumia 2520 will be offered by both AT&T and Verizon, with no mention as to whether T-Mobile or Sprint plans to stock the device as of now, although we guess the good news is that at least the tablet will not be an AT&T exclusive, unlike the Nokia Lumia 1520.

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T-Mobile HTC One Android 4.3 update now rolling out

Today's a good day if you're an HTC One owner on T-Mobile. The company has started rolling out their Android 4.3 upgrade, just as we were promised. The upgrade brings us up to version 3.24.531.3. Android 4.3 brings a lot of under-the-hood changes such as OpenGL 3.0, ANT+ support and the TRIM garbage collection system to keep your device smooth over time. On the HTC Sense side of things, the upgrade will bring us updated BlinkFeed features, including support for Instagram posts muddled in with all the rest of your news and social updates.

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HTC One Max Passes Through FCC With Sprint LTE Bands

HTC pulled back the veil of secrecy surrounding its supersized HTC One Max last week, which we learned the device would feature a 5.9-inch Full HD 1080p display, a 1.7GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor, 16GB or 32GB of internal storage along with a microSD card slot to expand storage and one of the more surprising additions is its fingerprint scanner located at the rear of the device. HTC certainly put a lot into its HTC One Max, although we still don't know what U.S. carrier will be carrying the supersized smartphone. Thanks to the FCC, we now do.

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[Update: It's out!] BBM for Android finally rolling out later today; be sure to "wait in line"

After Blackberry failed to launch BBM for Android (thanks to server overload from an unofficial release of the app), the company has finally announced the resuming of rollouts for the messaging service. They say we should be seeing the app in the Google Play Store within the next few hours, but being able to use it won't be as simple as downloading it and making an account. In order to ensure they can properly handle the load of an expected 6 million users, Blackberry is implementing a queue system — you simply “get in line,” and once you make it to the front you're good to go.

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