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Bloomberg: Blockbuster to sell phones at brick-and-mortar locations

If the sight of remaining Blockbuster stores shocks you, brace yourself for another surprise: they could soon be selling smartphones alongside your 80s comedies. Dish Networks may have dashed its dreams of turning Blockbuster into a Netflix competitor, but according to a pair of Bloomberg sources, the firm will be pushing the veteran video rental chain into the smartphone retail arena. Blockbuster has already been peddling handsets online, but it’s said the sales will be extending to the chain’s roughly 850 remaining brick-and-mortar locations. According to the outlet, Dish CEO Charlie Ergen has planned on charging Blockbuster with smartphone sales since picking the company up last year . Bloomberg also notes that the move could signal Dish Network’s entry into offering mobile phone service, a la AT&T and Verizon — it’s sure gaining the spectrum to do so. Sure, the move might take the video store in an odd direction, but its not as if you won’t be able to watch movies on your Blockbuster-bought smartphone. [Image Credit: Josh Smith, Flickr ] Filed under: Cellphones , Mobile Comments Via: Gizmodo , The Verge Source: Bloomberg

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Windows Phone now home to 120k apps, downloads and dev revenue rising post-WP8

Windows Phone 8 is a roaring success! That is if you ask the platform’s Senior Director, Todd Brix, who tweeted today that developer revenues and downloads have doubled since its launch in November. While this sounds all good, what does it really mean? Back in June, the former Windows Phone Marketplace surpassed 100,000 published apps . To further gauge the platform’s progress, Nokia recently announced that the Windows Phone Store now has over 120,000 apps, with 46 of the top 50 iOS and Android applications being available for WP8. While today’s vague declaration of success didn’t reveal any specific numbers, a 20 percent software increase in under six months is definitely something to smile about. As much as we’d like to slap Microsoft a high-five, we’ll have to save our jubilation until we get a little something more concrete — hopefully a set of official statistics will Surface sooner than later. Filed under: Software , Mobile , Microsoft Comments Source: Todd Brix (Twitter) , Nokia

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Hacker group rewriting Tumblr pages into a racist, anti-gay screed (update: Tumblr says it’s fixed)

Some Tumblr users are seeing their pages replaced with several dozen duplicate posts from a known hacker group, warning that deleting said message will delete the Tumblr page in question (it’s unclear if this is actually true, but seems to be false in our testing). Tumblr confirmed the ongoing issue to us this morning, and warned users who’ve seen the message to “please log out of all browsers that may be using Tumblr,” as that’s one way the “viral post” is being spread. The message from the group is aimed at the wide world of “bloggers,” and insists Tumblr users should take their own lives. Tumblr says its team is “working to resolve the issue as swiftly as possible,” though there is no timeline for when it’ll be fixed. In the meantime, we suggest changing your Tumblr password (though there’s no indication that passwords were necessarily taken, or any other personal information) and staying away from the site until the all clear is given. Thus far, it doesn’t seem that any previously written posts have been deleted, but simply pushed dramatically far down the timeline by a deluge of duplicate posts. We’ll update this post as we learn more. Update: A Tumblr rep tells us, “Tumblr engineers have resolved the issue of the viral post attack that affected a few thousand Tumblr blogs earlier today.” The sites we were seeing affected earlier seem to have returned to normal. Filed under: Networking , Internet , Software , Mobile Comments Source: GNAA.eu

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LTE: fast, global, silenced by a $650 radio jammer

Oh gosh, we haven’t been so panicked since our phones were hypothetically possessed by demons . And come to think of it, this is theoretically far, far worse. A research group at Virginia Tech is claiming that, due to the particular way 4G data is transmitted, an LTE base station can be sabotaged using lightweight equipment that costs as little as $650. Such a thing is possible because, unlike 2G and 3G, LTE depends on control instructions that occupy only a tiny fraction of the total signal — and details of those specific frequencies have been openly published. According to the research group’s director, Jeff Reed, a single malicious operative with a hot briefcase and a bit of know-how could take down “miles of LTE signals.” If the attacker splashed out on an amplifier, they could cut off reception for thousands of people across a whole city or region. Reed stresses that there are no known instances of this happening yet, but also warns that he can see no “mitigation strategies” that can “cover it all.” Let us pray that humanity’s characteristic inability to agree on anything — including a universal LTE standard — will be our salvation. Filed under: Cellphones , Wireless , Science , Mobile LTE: fast, global, silenced by a $650 radio jammer originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Nov 2012 07:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink    |  Technology Review  |  Email this  |  Comments

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iOS 6.0.1 released, fixes iPhone 5 OTA software update issue and other bugs (update)

Been waiting for Apple to refresh its mobile operating system ? Well, the wait is over, as Cupertino has just released iOS 6.0.1 with the promise of improvements and bug fixes. We just grabbed the update ourselves, and among the highlights are: a fix for the iPhone 5’s inability to receive OTA software updates, problems with the phone and the 5th-gen iPod Touch connecting to WPA2 encrypted WiFi networks, and other cellular connectivity issues as well. There’s also fixes for a passcode lock bug, a graphical keyboard glitch and a bug that prevented the 5’s camera flash from firing. Sound good? Go grab the download and let us know how it’s treating you in the comments below. Update: Thanks to our friends at TUAW, we should point out that iPhone 5 owners will need to download an updater app before they can grab 6.0.1. Filed under: Cellphones , Software , Mobile , Apple iOS 6.0.1 released, fixes iPhone 5 OTA software update issue and other bugs (update) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink   9to5Mac  |  Apple  |  Email this  |  Comments

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Take that linear algebra to go: Intel’s 48-core chip targeting smartphones and tablets

Intel’s taking its 48-core processor and applying it to a field beyond academia : the world of mobile electronics. The company this morning announced intentions to slip the 48-core bad boy into future tablets and smartphones (emphasis on future ), with CTO Justin Rattner saying the mobile implementation could arrive “much sooner” than the 10-year window predicted by researchers. Aside from the thrilling world of linear algebra and fluid dynamics that the chipset is currently used for, Intel says it could offload processor-intensive functions across several cores, effectively speeding up various functions (say, video streaming). The availability of so many cores also means faster multitasking possibilities than the current dual- or quad-core offerings in modern smartphones and tablets — just imagine a world where two Angry Birds games can run simultaneously in the background without affecting the paradoxical game of Tiny Wings you decided to play instead. Hey, we understand — it’s just a better bird game. No big. Sadly, few software developers are crafting their wares (warez?) to take advantage of multi-core processing as is, so it’s gonna take more than just the existence of Intel’s 48-core chip to make its vision a reality. Filed under: Cellphones , Handhelds , Tablets , Mobile , Intel Take that linear algebra to go: Intel’s 48-core chip targeting smartphones and tablets originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink    |  Computerworld  |  Email this  |  Comments

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