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Samsung Gives Me Another Reason To Hate TouchWiz

Tasty looking, ain't it?

As I’ve mentioned ad-nauseum in my cellphone reviews, I’m not a huge fan of device manufacturers’ “skinning” of operating systems. While much of that can be chalked up to personal taste, there’s also the demonstrated fact that they directly impact future updates. Sony’s RachelUI kept the Xperia x10 from getting Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread) until fairly […]

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Techcitement Review: My Weekend With Galaxy Nexus

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On Thursday, I was the first person in line at the Verizon store in Culver City, CA, to pick up the Galaxy Nexus. The Nexus is the latest phone from Samsung featuring the latest build of Google’s Android operating system, 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). This is particularly exciting for me, if only because I haven’t […]

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Your Face Is The Problem

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Any good (fictional) spy uses biometrics as authentication – Bond used fake fingerprints, Charlie’s Angels copied someone’s retina scan, and Chuck’s intersect has facial recognition technology. Yet as companies have implemented biometric-based authentications, it’s been laughably easy to beat. Fingerprint locking technology was once thought to be the gold standard in security. Fingerprint sensors popped […]

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