Video: Media Matters

Last night I attended the Franklin Film Festival, an annual festival celebrating videos that are scripted, filmed and produced by Franklin Indiana High School students. The short videos were all inspiring and the winner was one called Media Matters by Austin Schmidt and Sam Meyer. The film focuses on the news cycle and compares local television, newspaper and radio and how they’re having to adjust to the instantaneous demand for content via the web and social media. While there’s voracious demand for content and the audience is shared across mediums, this story is, ironically, a great example of what’s important and key to good...

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Blackberry 10: too little, too late. Apple has won

Blackberry. Ten years ago, it was the toast of the business world; it was the must-have accessory – the first real smartphone. If people took one out in public, there would be coos of affection. It had a keyboard! It could do maps! Get your emails! It was all but magic compared to the brick-like Nokias most of us were still toting. When Channel 5 comes around to commissioning "I love the noughties", they are sure to be featured, with a forgettable comedian saying "Oooh! I remember them! With the little screens!" Sadly, Blackberry wasn't able to keep pace with its rivals – it was too wedded to old ideas. Its farcical idea of launching one...

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Tortoise chases dog FUNNY

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Top 10 Funny Baby Videos and most watched on youtube

Top 10 Funny Baby Videos! Top 10 vicces baba videók...

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PadFone 2 - two years in development, seamless one-step docking

The PadFone concept has been in development for over three years now and the latest release, Padfone 2, has been in the lab for more than two years.With PadFone 2, ASUS wanted to further improve the user experience and particularly the process of moving between Pad and Phone.ASUS engineers worked tirelessly to reduce the weight of both PadFone 2 and the PadFone 2 Station tablet dock, looking at every part of the product with an eye on reducing weight without sacrificing robustness or quality. The result of all this hard work is that, together, the two are lighter than many 10-inch tablets on the market and the user experience hasn't been compromised...

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Official HTC One first look video focuses on design, software and speakers

It’s out, it’s out, it’s finally out, and it’s… awesome? Fugly? Underwelming hardware-wise? Just downright average? The jury’s still out on the HTC One and we’d love to hear your thoughts, but for now let’s focus on HTC’s marketing efforts. The company’s CEO, Peter Chou, has basically blamed all of HTC’s recent misfortune on poor marketing, so today should be the start of a new era, right? The buildup has been pretty well-handled by the new marketing department, although the One has definitely been one of the worst kept secrets in recent Android history. We’ve known all there was to it for weeks and yet we’ve been kept on our toes by leak...

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More Huawei Ascend P2 photos leaked

It’s certainly not a shy device; the Huawei Ascend P2 keeps on cropping up in leaked photographs and reports, despite best efforts to keep the handset under lock and key. We saw a couple of images and a benchmark just last week, and now a small selection of snaps has appeared on Gizchina. Ok, so the pictures don’t reveal anything that we hadn’t already suspected or seen before, but if you look closely can clearly see a number 13.0 printed under the camera. So the rumored specs might turn out to be correct after all, at least as far as the camera is concerned. You can also spot the usual micro USB port and 3.5mm headphone jack, but you’d be...

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HTC One trade-in program offering $100 or more for your old phone

What could be better news that learning that the HTC One is now official? How about this: HTC is offering $100 or more for customers that trade in their old handsets towards the purchase of the HTC One. The promotion is actually pretty straightforward, you pre-register your email and you can then qualify for a Visa prepaid card worth at least $100 or the trade-in value of your phone, whichever is greater. Once you buy your new HTC One you send in your old phone alongside proof of purchase for the HTC One, and they’ll send you the prepaid card. For those with an older phone sitting in a box or dresser drawer somewhere, this could be the perfect...

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Ubuntu tablet officially announced for Nexus 7, Nexus 10; not related to HTC for now [video]

When Canonical put up a countdown timer on its website hinting at the Ubuntu tablet we (and by we I mean the whole tech-reporting community) thought that it had something to do with HTC’s media event today, mainly because the timer suggested that the Ubuntu tablet will be unveiled around the same time with the HTC One, possibly right after it. And the Ubuntu tablet was unveiled today, but not during the HTC event, which was only about the HTC One anyway. Just like Samsung a day before – the Galaxy S4 announcement event rumor and confirmation hit a day before the HTC One event – Canonical tried to crash HTC party by stealing some of the spotlight. Whether...

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How is it to use Google Glass? An engineer gives us a glimpse of the interface

No, we are not here to report that someone broke those restrictive NDAs that Google required their Glass Forge hackaton attendants to sign. But we have a description of the interface of Google’s futuristic head mounted display, offered by an engineer that recently had the opportunity to try out the Google Glass. Soumya Mohan, who used the Glass at a tech talk organized at Stanford, took to Quora to describe how the user interface looks and works. According to him, currently the interface is rather crude, only displaying a short “list menu with black background and words written in white”. Among the items in the menu, Mohan recalls...

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How to flash Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean XXELLC for the Galaxy S3 I9300

Still waiting for your Jelly Bean update for the Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300? Wait no more because the latest software version XXELLC of Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean for the Galaxy S3 I9300 has been officially released for the Spain region, which also includes Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, and the United Kingdom. This official Android 4.1.2 release reportedly packs all the features you’ve been waiting for in Jelly Bean: Multi-View, Page Buddy, a new Gallery App, Smart Rotation, Paper Artist, and the Group Cast app to name a few. Enjoy these new features without having to wait for your updates to arrive over the air....

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How to unroot the Droid Razr HD XT926 and revert to stock

Sometimes you just can’t help tinkering with your Verizon Motorola Droid Razr HD XT926, especially if you come across new and interesting custom features. However, it also means risking your hundred dollar contract and warranty. Rooting your phone might mean enjoying a taste of freedom but if something goes wrong, you can’t ask for assistance from Verizon since your warranty has been voided. If you’re in this very boat, don’t fret, my friend, because there is now a short and easy way to unroot your phone and revert to stock firmware. XDA Developers member Pzyduck shared this method for Droid Razr HD users, allowing them to save their...

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How to root the Photon Q 4G LTE XT897 and flash ClockworkMod Recovery

Custom ROMs are the way to go if you want to explore the custom features available. Before you can do that, you have to gain root access and install custom recovery on your phone for easy flashing. XDA Developers member shabbypenguin was kind enough to share with us  how to root the Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE XT987 and how to install ClockworkMod Recovery on it afterwards. For more info about rooting, you can consult our beginner’s guide to rooting your Android device. Meanwhile, ClockworkMod Recovery is a custom recovery that allows you to easily flash custom ROMs and other customizations via ZIP files. The tool also lets you perform...

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How to flash TWRP Recovery for the Photon Q 4G LTE XT897

There are a lot of things you can do with Android devices, thanks to the variety of customizations that developers are cooking up and the apps emerging on the Google Play Store. However, a custom recovery such as TWRP Recovery is a must-have tool if you want to enjoy all of these customizations on your phone. With this tool, you can enjoy hassle free and quick installations. XDA Developer arrrghhh managed to put together TWRP Recovery for the Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE XT897. The essential recovery features are up and running, though the port is still not a hundred percent perfect since the USB Mass Storage is not working, the clock...

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Huawei Ascend Mate goes up for pre-order in China, $575 gets you a 6.1-inch phablet

he Huawei Ascend Mate was made official last month at CES, but not without leaving a lingering question of whether bigger is really better. Regardless of how you feel about holding a huge phone in your hand(s), Huawei is looking to shake up the Galaxy Note establishment with its 6.1-inch phablet offering. If you find yourself strangely attracted to the Ascend Mate, you’ve probably heard that it’ll be launched in China this month, while a global release can be expected in the following month. Now, we have some unofficial pricing information for the phone. One online retailer in China has begun taking pre-order for the Ascend Mate,...

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Galaxy Fonblet 5.8, Pocket 2, Star, Young, Frame and GT-B9150 spotted in benchmarks

It’s not only Galaxy S4 leaks that we get to look at on a pretty regular basis these days, but we also see plenty of unconfirmed details about a variety of other Android-running Galaxy-branded devices that are going to be released by Samsung at some point in the coming months. After recently checking out quite a variety of new Samsung products in benchmark results, we now have six more unannounced devices to show you, as spotted – you probably guessed it – in GLBenchmark results. Five of them are apparently part of the Galaxy family: the Galaxy Fonblet 5.8, the Galaxy Pocket 2, the Galaxy Star, the Galaxy Young and the Galaxy Frame, while...

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Huawei Ascend P2 Mini reportedly confirmed for MWC 2013 announcement

We have already shown you the Huawei Ascend P2, a really skinny D2, and now we have a new report that says a Mini version of the handset is set to be unveiled in the coming weeks. As most of you know already, the Mobile World Congress (MWC) takes place every year in February in Barcelona, Spain, and it looks like that’s where the Ascend P2 Mini will be unveiled right alongside its bigger brother. While not all specs and features are known at this time, the Ascend P2 Mini is said to feature a 4-inch display with 720p HD resolution, 1GB of RAM, 8-megapixel camera and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Comparatively, the Ascend P2 will sport a bigger...

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Galaxy S4 announcement not coming at MWC 2013

A couple of days ago a report revealed that Samsung will not hold a press conference at MWC 2013, which implies that the Galaxy S4 will not be present at the Spanish show.Meanwhile CNET was able to confirm with a “person familiar with its launch plans” that Samusng will not unveil the Galaxy S4 in Barcelona. As expected, the South Korean company “declined to comment” on the matter.Did we need more confirmations though? This isn’t exactly the first time we hear the Galaxy S4 will not be made official at the most important mobile trade show of the year, with Samsung still preferring to launch such a product at its own convenience. In fact, Samsung’s...

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Sony rolls out Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update to Xperia T

About a week ago, Sony released the alpha build of Jelly Bean for the Xperia T, a treat that’s intended more for developers and power users. Now, it appears the final version of the buttery smooth OS is being pushed out to the phone. Sony Xperia T owners in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Saudi Arabia and other countries have reported getting the Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean update. We’re looking at a possible worldwide rollout here. Nice one, Sony! The update brings the phone to software version 91.A.0.489, and comes with a new camera feature, lock screen and dialer, and more. And let’s not forget all the Jelly Bean goodness that...

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