Samsung, never shy of releasing multiple gadgets at multiple times of the year, has followed up the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge+ reveal with another handset: a retro-looking flip phone. For those of you too young to remember, flip phones have a screen on one piece of plastic and a keypad on the other. The main advantage of the form factor is being able to look cool while
Google hasn’t breathed a word about the future of its Nexus smartphones, but the leaks have come so thick and so fast that it would be a huge surprise if we didn’t see a new Nexus 5 and Nexus 6 before the year’s end. The latest fuel for the fire is a set of renderings depicting a 2015 edition Nexus 5 made by LG. These aren’t leaked images – they’re
Sony’s strategy for its flagship Xperia devices has been somewhat confusing of late, with the Xperia Z4 a rather underwhelming upgrade on the previous model and given the title Xperia Z3+ in every country other than Japan. We’re suckers for a bit of smartphone hype though, and that disappointment hasn’t stopped us from hoping that the Xperia Z5 is the super-powerful flagship phone we’ve been waiting for. Images on Weibo
Some weeks are like the Del Amitri song where “nothing ever happens”. This week, though, is more Everything Everything: we’ve discovered a new Galaxy, seen Google announce a surprise and very significant reorganisation, found more reasons to distrust car tech and discovered the games consoles we thought were gone for good. Man Alive, it’s week in tech! A is for A Large Corporate Restructuring Everybody sing along: A, B, C,
By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Beginning more than a decade ago, one of the largest security companies in the world, Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, tried to damage rivals in the marketplace by tricking their antivirus software programs into classifying benign files as malicious, according to two former employees. Some of the attacks were ordered by Kaspersky Lab’s co-founder, Eugene Kaspersky, in part to retaliate against smaller rivals that he
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A small drugmaker from North Carolina may succeed next week where many of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies have failed: in winning approval for the first drug to boost women’s sexual desire. …
If crude’s slump back to a six-year low looks bad, it’s even worse when you reflect that summer is supposed to be peak season for oil.
The University of Michigan’s preliminary August reading on the overall consumer sentiment index came in at 92.9, down from the final reading of 93.1 in July. The survey’s gauge of consumer expectations slipped to 83.8 from 84.1 in July and was marginally below an expected 84.0. The consumer expectations index reading was the lowest since November 2014.
Auto plants, clothing makers and plastics factories drove a sharp rebound in U.S. manufacturing in July. U.S. factory production climbed a seasonally adjusted 0.8 percent last month after a revised estimate …