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BlackBerry will release a low-cost phone in Indonesia in April and plans a broader release of a phone that restores a beloved row of control keys with a track pad. The Indonesia phone, the Z3, will sell for less than $200 without subsidies, the company said Tuesday. It will later expand to other markets in southeast Asia. BlackBerry Ltd. CEO John Chen said a version with faster, 4G connectivity is planned for the rest of the world “sometime in the future before I die.” It’s the first phone made under a new fiveyear partnership with Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that assembles products in vast factories in China. Meanwhile, Chen said it will restore the keys in a new phone he termed “Classic.” He said the new Q20 is a response…

After eschewing Ultraviolet, a technology standard backed by its main movie business competitors, Burbank-based Walt Disney Co. has launched a proprietary cloud-based movie service that gives users online access to their digital and physical Disney movie purchases. Disney Movies Anywhere launched Tuesday and is available on Apple iOS devices including the iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. It acts as a so-called “digital movie locker,” allowing users to manage and view films they’ve bought online, as well as store digital copies of their physical Blu-ray and DVD purchases. Consumers can also use the app to purchase films. Disney Movies Anywhere, a free service, is similar to platforms that use Ultraviolet, the cloud-based technology that debuted in 2011 and is backed by a consortium of more than 80 retailers and film companies.…

Frozen Starring the voices of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel and Jonathan Groff, Frozen tells the story of fearless princess Anna, rugged mountain man Kristoff and his ever-present reindeer Sven, as they seek to find Anna’s estranged sister Elsa, who has used her icy powers to bring neverending winter to the kingdom of Arendelle. Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee join forces as directors for a screenplay written by Lee. FIVE FACTS: 1. Frozen has been hailed as one of the finest Disney animated musicals since the studio’s renaissance era. 2. The film premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on November 19, 2013. 3. It has also collected a series of accolades, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film…

Sony is borrowing innovations from its audio and camcorder businesses and incorporating its new Xperia Z2 smartphone with noisecancelling technology and ultra-high-definition video recording. Noise cancellation works with an in-ear headset sold separately for 60 euros ($82), while the Z2’s built-in camera can capture video in so-called 4K resolution, an emerging standard that offers four times the details as current high-definition video. Kazuo Hirai, president and CEO of Sony Corp., described Sony’s new lineup as “products that are built on the shoulders of 60 years of design, engineering and artistic excellence.” Monday’s announcement at the Mobile World Congress wireless show in Barcelona, Spain, comes just weeks after Sony said it was selling its Vaio personal computer operations and making its Bravia TV business a subsidiary company. Sony also plans to…

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REPORTS OF TALKS BETWEEN TECH DUO When one mentions the names Apple and Tesla Motors, the latter the well-known manufacturer of all-electric cars, it’s easy to see what they have in common. Both are American success stories of recent times, both have premium images and both very much work at the highest end of technology. Perhaps it isn’t so surprising, then, that amid reports of a recent meeting between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Apple’s head of acquisitions Adrian Perica, many openly wondered whether the iDevice giant was interested in buying the car manufacturer outright. After all, it’s not as if they’d lack the cash reserves to do so in Cupertino. Whereas almost $160 billion in cash is presently held in cash by Apple, Tesla’s market cap is approximately $24…

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Oxymoron (Deluxe Edition) ScHoolboy Q Hailing from South Central Los Angeles, California, Quincy Matthew Hanley - better known as ScHoolboy Q - has been making waves in hip hop since the release of his first full-length project, the ScHoolboy Turned Hustla mixtape in 2008. The Setbacks album followed in 2011, and reached #100 on the US Billboard 200 chart. Oxymoron is his first studio album to be released under a major record label to music retailers, and his third overall. FIVE FACTS: 1. As well as a solo artist, ScHoolboy Q is a member of the hip hop group Black Hippy. 2. He grew up on 51st Street, Los Angeles, in close proximity to the Staples Center and the University of Southern California campus. 3. Of his stage name, he…

LONDON - Early Tuesday, the world’s most established exchange for Bitcoin disappeared from the Internet, sending the price of the virtual currency tumbling and prompting fears that the world’s biggest experiment in electronic cash could soon be strangled by fraud or regulation. Here’s an explanation of what bitcoins are, how exchanges work, and why the demise of the exchange, Mt. Gox, means many people may have lost a lot of money. Q: What’s a bitcoin? A: Bitcoins are basically just lines of computer code that are digitally signed each time they travel from one owner to the next. They are the basic unit of a new online economy which runs independently of any company, bank, or government. Because bitcoins allow people to trade money without a third party getting involved,…

Less than two years ago, disillusioned investors were fleeing Facebook Inc. stock, worried the company would never figure out how to make the leap to mobile devices from personal computers, let alone make money on them. Now, more than half of the giant social network’s advertising revenue is coming from ads for its 1.2 billion users on smartphones and tablets. And it’s buying WhatsApp after outbidding rival Google Inc. for the most popular mobile app for sending messages on smartphones. Facebook’s big shift to wireless helped give Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg top billing Monday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, his highest profile yet at the industry’s largest trade show. “It took Facebook a while to recognize the shift to mobile but once they did, they turned on…

Apple issued a patch for OS X Mavericks users Tuesday, which among other things fixes the SSL bug that made users susceptible to external attacks. This comes a week after Apple discovered the bug, which seemed to have creeped into the code some time in 2012. The security hole is not present in versions of OS X prior to OS X 10.9 Mavericks or iOS prior to iOS 6. Users have been advised to update their Apple devices to protect their security. The vulnerability not only affected Safari but other installed applications that relied on an encrypted channel to communicate with the internet. However, third party applications, like Chrome and Firefox, relied on a different implementations of the Secure Socket Layer, keeping them away from this security flaw. Prior to…

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There is a problem going largely unaddressed in the tech industry, an ugly and loud elephant in the room: the rumor mill. Spreading rumors has become a kind of industry in and of itself. There are producers and consumers of rumors, third-party perpetuators of rumors, and the rumors themselves are constantly evolving just as products in any industry do. With the vast possibilities that the Internet affords, it’s no wonder that tech reporting is becoming increasingly rife with gossip. Considering the fake iPhone 6 photos recently posted on Twitter, now seems as good a time as ever to bring up the effects of rumors in tech reporting and what we can do to moderate them. On February 12, Sonny Dickson—known for his posts on tech specs, leaks, and the like—posted…

BIG QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF MOBILE MESSAGING In a week in which many of us have been mourning the passing of Ghostbusters co-writer and actor Harold Ramis, there’s been something else strange in the neighborhood lately... the social media one, that is. If there’s anyone you’re gonna call at the moment, it’s probably no one in particular, if you are one of the many and rapidly increasing number of users of the WhatsApp cross-platform instant messaging subscription service that Facebook has just purchased for a whopping $19 billion. Let’s put that in a bit of perspective for you. With the outlay being made up of both cash and stock, it’s not only easily the biggest acquisition that Facebook has ever made, but also far surpasses any done by Apple,…

Coldplay is heating up. A week after Apple announced that the English band would headline the opening night of its upcoming iTunes Festival, Coldplay on Tuesday released a new song, “Midnight.” It’s a woozy, low-key ballad with heavily processed vocals by frontman Chris Martin that strongly recall the work of Bon Iver; indeed, that band probably could’ve snuck “Midnight” onto its self-titled 2011 album without anyone noticing. The track hasn’t been officially described as a taster from a new Coldplay record, the group’s , follow-up to 2011’s “Mylo Xyloto.” But its appearance mere weeks before the group’s March 11 performance at the iTunes Festival - scheduled for a five-night run in Austin, Texas, during the annual South by Southwest music conference - certainly suggests that something is coming. Listen to…