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Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it is delaying sales of its first Tizen-powered smartphone in the latest setback to the company’s ambition to create a mobile platform to rival Google’s Android or Apple’s iOS. The South Korean company had planned to start selling the phone, the Samsung Z, in Russia this quarter. But Samsung indicated that more time is needed to expand Tizen’s following of app developers and apps In a brief statement, Samsung said the postponement is to further enhance the Tizen “ecosystem,” which encompasses developers, consumers and devices using the mobile OS. The delay is a blow to Samsung’s push to reduce reliance on Google’s Android operating system, which powers Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones and tablets. It did not announce a new release date. About one third of smartphones…

Major U.S. companies are starting to reap their most rapid growth in fertile lands of opportunity far from home. Technology trendsetters Apple Inc., Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and Netflix Inc. all mined foreign countries to produce earnings or revenue that exceeded analysts’ projections in their latest quarters. Prodded by the steadily rising demand for Internet access and online services in developing countries, these technology companies will likely be wading even deeper into overseas markets for years to come. “The philosophy is to start your growth in the states and then take your fight overseas,” says BGC Financial analyst Colin Gillis. “That’s what the big guys are doing.” The intensifying international focus extends beyond technology. Century-old companies such as Coca-Cola Co. and Ford Motor Co. also are hoping to make more…

iOS #01 - Kim Kardashian: Hollywood By Glu Games Inc. Category: Games Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #02 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Rooftop Run By Nickelodeon Category: Games Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03 - Make Them Jump By Ketchapp Category: Games Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #04 - Instagram By Instagram, Inc. Category: Photo & Video Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #05 - Timberman By Pawel Jedrysiak Category: Games Requires iOS 4.3…

Video streaming service Netflix has agreed to pay U.S. broadband provider AT&T Incto ensure smooth delivery of Netflix content to Internet users, the companies said on Tuesday. The announcement of the deal, struck in May, comes as Netflix has been waging a public campaign against such fees, which they present as tolls, and calling on the Federal Communications Commission to review the market. Having brokered this so-called interconnection agreement, AT&T and Netflix are now working to build out new network connections for Netflix content to be delivered directly to AT&T’s servers “to improve the viewing experience for our mutual subscribers,” the companies’ representatives said. “We’re now beginning to turn up the connections, a process that should be complete in the coming days,” AT&T spokesman Michael Balmoris said. This marks the…

Congress passed a bill Friday that makes it legal to “unlock” cellphones so the devices can -at least in some instances- be used on other carriers. The law, which President Obama said he looks forward to signing, undoes a move by the Librarian of Congress in 2012. That made it a copyright violation to unlock a phone without the carrier’s permission. The law passed Friday by the House of Representatives makes it legal to unlock phones for personal use, at least until the Librarian’s next round of rulemaking, next year. The measure was passed earlier by the Senate. Unlocking typically involves entering codes on the phone. In more difficult cases, the phone needs to be hooked up to a computer to have new software installed. Carriers have, in some instances,…

The European Union’s antitrust authority has cleared Apple’s $3 billion deal to buy Beats Electronics, which makes headphones and offers music streaming services. The 28-nation bloc’s executive Commission said Monday the transaction does not threaten competition because the firms’ combined European market share in both fields will be low while facing strong competitors. The takeover of Beats Electronics and Beats Music announced in May for $2.6 billion in cash and $400 million in stock is the most expensive acquisition in Apple’s 38-year history. The move to buy Beats, founded by rapper Dr. Dre and Jimmy lovine, was widely seen as a bid to counter the increasing threat posed by music streaming services like Pandora and Spotify to Apple Inc.’s iTunes store.…

INTRIGUING RANGE OF RESPONSES The impending release of OS X Yosemite, the latest version of Apple’s evergreen Macintosh operating system, is an exciting time for more than a few reasons. As we’ve come to expect from any OS X update, there’s an enticing feature list to pore through, improvements this time around including a freshened-up design with translucent toolbars and windows and flatter icons. Oh, and integration with your iPhone and iPad has also never been more seamless -or so we’ve all been promised. This brings us neatly onto the other thing that really marks out OS X Yosemite - the fact that it is the first version of OS X to be released in a beta version available to the public, since the very first one. Of course, beta…

iWATCH AND SEVERAL NEW iPHONES ANTICIPATED In-between the major launches by companies like Apple and Samsung that get us excited so much, there are various established ways of getting a sense of what may be coming as far as new products and software are concerned in the next few months and years. You may look to the rumors pages, for example, where there will invariably be references to oblique “sources familiar with the situation”, suggesting that the next iPhone, iPad or other Apple product will have “this” feature or “that” feature. There may also be mentions on these websites of supply chain leaks, or someone on an Internet forum may have come up with all manner of outlandish ideas of features that the next iPhone is “sure” to have. Some…

iOS #01 - Heads Up! By Warner Bros. Category: Games / Price: $0.99 Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #02 - Minecraft - Pocket Edition FT By Mojang Category: Games / Price: $6.99 Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03 - Afterlight By Simon Filip Category: Photo & Video/Price: $0.99 Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #04 - Modern Combat 5: Blackout By Gameloft Category: Games / Price: $6.99 Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #05 - Facetune…

Transcendence The directorial debut of cinematographer Wally Pfister centers on the story of leading Artificial Intelligence researcher Dr. Will Caster, played by Johnny Depp, and his seemingly omnipresent quest for power - to an unknown end. Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Kate Mara, Cillian Murphy and Morgan Freeman also star. FIVE FACTS: 1. Jack Paglen’s screenplay for the film was once on Hollywood’s famous Black List. 2. The movie has grossed $103,039,258 worldwide. 3. According to director Wally Pfister, “The more power someone or something gets, the more temptation there is to play God. In this case, as the machine becomes sentient and more powerful, it acts in that way.” 4. Of the current ubiquity of technology, Pfister has added: “We are beginning to get frustrated with technology. I enjoy social…

Microsoft is spreading its Cortana digital assistant abroad, starting with China and the U.K. The company’s corporate vice president of operating systems, Joe Belfiore, said Wednesday in Beijing that Chinese and British users of Windows Phones will get the voice-recognizing app in an update to Windows Phone 8.1 that will begin rolling out to developers next week and to users in the coming months. In China, the app nicknamed “Xiao Na,” will speak Mandarin and include locally relevant information, like air quality reports in weather updates and information on local TV shows and celebrities. In Britain, users will get an app that has a British accent and be up to date about English Premier League soccer and other local matters. Users in Australia, Canada and India will also be allowed…

Dustin Moskovitz is plotting an escape from email. The 30-year-old entrepreneur has learned a lot about communication since he teamed up with his college roommate Mark Zuckerberg to create Facebook a decade ago, and that knowledge is fueling an audacious attempt to change the way people connect at work, where the incessant drumbeat of email has become an excruciating annoyance. Moskovitz is trying to turn that chronic headache into an afterthought with Asana, a San Francisco startup he runs with former Facebook and Google product manager, Justin Rosenstein. Asana peddles software that combines the elements of a communal notebook, social network, instant messaging application and online calendar to enable teams of employees to share information and do most of their jobs without relying on email. “We are trying to make…

Japan’s Sony Corp is hammering out plans to rise from the ashes of nearly $10 billion lost in six years by building a future around its last consumer electronics blockbuster - the PlayStation. Sony plans to reposition the video console warhorse as a hub for a network of streamed services, according to three senior officials, offering social media, movies and music as well as games. The executives spoke to Reuters on condition they not be named because the matters are still in early stages of discussion. The plans to coax more revenue from the PlayStation’s network of users are being developed by a new breed of managers brought in by Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai. Analysts say if Sony gets it right, the game and network business could earn about $1…

Before Ralf Groene helped devise the look and feel of Microsoft’s Surface tablet, he designed food - or “food concepts/’ he says, for people on the go. Among them: dried noodles that come wrapped around a pair of chopsticks; a tubular meal that can be pulled with two fingers from a car cup holder base; and a fork that squeezes out sauce. Though none of these ideas made it into production, the principles behind them can be applied to computing devices that fit into busy lives, says Groene, and they are just as varied as the ones Microsoft now uses to redesign all its software and devices. “In a way, we’ve designed Surface with very similar principles/’ Groene said on a recent tour of the Surface lab on Microsoft’s sprawling…

Nobody’s Smiling (Deluxe Version) Common Common’s 10th studio album follows a several year hiatus from music after his 2011 album The Dreamer/The Believer, and sees him muse on the violence and high crime rate of his hometown of Chicago, Illinois. It features guest appearances from the likes of Lil Herb, Big Sean, Jhene Aiko and Snoh Aalegra. FIVE FACTS: 1. Common is the stage name of Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. 2. He was born on Chicago’s South Side on March 13, 1972. 3. Other guests on the album include Dreezy, Elijah Blake, Vince Staples and Cocaine 80s. 4. The music video for the first single, “Kingdom”, was directed by Harold “Hype” Williams. 5. Common has described Nobody’s Smiling as “really a thought that came about because of all the violence…

For the entire credit card industry, everything old is about to be new again. And Square, the e-commerce start-up, wants to cash in on the opportunity. The company, based in San Francisco, plans to introduce a new version of its credit card reader hardware next year, a device that the company hopes many small and medium-size businesses will quickly adopt. The reader will look much the same as the current one, about the size of a box of matches; it’s what’s inside that counts. Square’s new reader will be compatible with microchip-enabled credit cards. The microchip technology, commonly referred to as E.M.V. (short for Europay, Mastercard and Visa), communicates with payments processors to determine whether the card is counterfeit every time it is used to make a purchase. Merchants in…