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Is Samsung developing smartphone fingerprint scanners?
AFP Relax News, Published on 23/05/2013
» Samsung could be following Apple’s lead and testing biometric technology for future handsets.
Google gives FIDO more bite
AFP Relax News, Published on 26/04/2013
» Google has joined the Fast IDentity Online Alliance (FIDO) in a move that will boost the group's goal of keeping all web users better protected by replacing online passwords with physical devices and other forms of authentication.
A look at the greenest smartphone makers
AFP Relax News, Published on 22/04/2013
» With no unifying or international rating or certification currently awarded, how do you judge the impact that your shiny new smartphone is having on the environment?
UK Android users shun games in favor of shopping
AFP Relax News, Published on 20/02/2013
» Smartphone owners more likely to use their devices to visit Amazon or check their bank account than to play Cut the Rope or Angry Birds.
Earthlings head to nearest bunker, or bar, at 'world's end'
AFP Relax News, Published on 20/12/2012
» Diehard doomsayers will be scurrying to the nearest shelter in fear of a Mayan prophecy of the world's end Friday, but many more from Delhi to Sydney will ring in the date by partying like there's no tomorrow.
Spotify welcomes celebrity users, strikes deal with Metallica
AFP Relax News, Published on 12/12/2012
» Music streaming service Spotify is launching a new tool for recommendations coming from the friends and artists that users follow. Musicians and other celebrities are now invited to share the tracks they really like.
Higgs Boson makes it a champagne year for physics
AFP Relax News, Published on 11/12/2012
» 2012 will go down in history as a landmark year, when physicists discovered a fundamental particle that may answer one of the greatest riddles of all.
Health/fitness apps: Stopwatch +, Sprout
AFP Relax News, Published on 15/11/2012
» Some of the most popular apps around the globe this week include a stopwatch app that tracks your laps, an app that trains you to complete 30 consecutive pull-ups, and another that offers pregnant moms 3D models of growing babies.