New research cuts Li-Ion battery charging time in half

Power is usually a big concern for mobile devices, and finding ways to improve efficiency is the holy grail for smartphones, tablets and even other applications like electric vehicles. This is why developers have been coming up with ways to improve the use of batteries on these devices, which includes alternative sources, such as solar, inductive and even motion-based charging.

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Star Wars Angry Birds mash-up in the works?

Those pesky piggies have certainly caused problems in some pretty strange places, from outer space to the setting of the movie Rio. They even now star in their own game, Bad Piggies. One place we have yet to see them in is the Star Wars universe. Starting Oct. 8th, we may finally see the angry birds and bad piggies get their hands on lightsabers after all.

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Samsung, Amazon, and Apple are becoming household names according to Interbrand

There are some names that everyone just knows. Band Aids, Coca Cola, Pepsi, General Electric, Disney, and others that we have known practically our entire lives. They are household names and they are companies that we’ve known about for decades. There is a company out there that rates household names on their value called Interbrand.

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Could Snapseed for Android be nearing release?

A photo posted to Google+ by Senior Engineering VP for Google Vic Gundotra may be a hint that Snapseed for Android will arrive some time in the near future.
At first the photo just looked like a picture of a sunset, albeit a nice picture of a sunset taken from an airplane. Then people start to notice that the information at the top of the post indicated that the picture was posted from Snapseed, which currently only has an iOS client. Seeing that Gundotra has been with

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LG Optimus G Nexus specs and features leaked, release date set for mid-November

Just earlier today we looked at a report detailing an LG Optimus G Nexus early hands-on experience, and now we have a new leak. This time around we’re looking at leaked specs and features for the handset, but considering that the smartphone is based on the high-end Optimus G, we won’t act so surprised.
After all, it’s only logical to assume that the Optimus G and Optimus G Nexus will share a variety of specs and features. Until the latter is confirmed, we’ll take a look at today’s specs sheet provided by MoDaCo.

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Samsung S-Voice, Google Now, and Apple Siri in the cross hairs of a patent troll called ATC

It’s about time for everyone to heave that collective sigh of discontent yet again. It seems that every month, some barely known company is suing over a patent they happen to own. It results in a bunch of people caring even less about a company they hadn’t really heard of before. This month’s patent troll goes by the name of ATC, or Accredited Transcription Corp.

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ZTE T81 phone announced: a dual-core ICS-based mid-ranger coming to Australia soon

Although it did threaten to take the Western tech world by storm during 2012 with several high-end phones and tablets some time ago, ZTE is still keeping a somewhat low profile outside Asia. The only new handhelds we’ve seen from the company in the past couple of months have been the same old decent looking budget-friendly devices with low-end specs.

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Motorola scores minor win against Microsoft in German patent war, Microsoft still has the upper hand

Despite not being in the headlines as much as the Apple-Samsung legal brawl, the patent fight between Motorola and Microsoft has been very eventful lately. In fact, if we wouldn’t want to keep our objective perspective on all these legal accusations and trials, we might say that the Moto-Microsoft conflict has got a little out of hand.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 2 review [video]

When the world first saw the Galaxy Note, people had mixed reactions. Some said that the device was just too big to be a phone but too small to be a tablet. Other people, however, fell head over heels with the device.
The screen was large enough to make media viewing an absolute joy and the S Pen, the Galaxy Note’s stylus, brought a whole new level of fun to gaming. Fruit Ninja was even more fun when you held a

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Bloomberg: T-Mobile value might have dropped $13 billion after failed AT&T sale

Despite being considered one of the US carriers “Big Four”, T-Mobile hasn’t exactly had the most prodigious year. First, there’s been talk about a merger with AT&T, which should have resulted in a wireless service giant that would have been almost impossible to compete against.

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