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• Samsung Electronics Nominates Heir Apparent to Board as Shares Slammed

  

  Updated Sept. 12, 2016 9:16 a.m. ET SEOUL— Samsung Electronics Co. SSNHZ 0.00 % nominated Lee Jae-yong, the son of its longtime chairman, to its board of directors as shares in the technology titan suffered their steepest one-day decline since 2008 in the wake of a global phone recall. The latest step in the elevation of Mr. Lee, the South Korean company’s vice chairman and heir apparent, comes more than two years after his father, Chairman Lee Kun-hee, was hospitalized ..

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• Competing with the iPhone's specs is harder than it seems

  

  It’s a common fallacy, convenient to Apple, to think that the iPhone maker doesn’t care about specs. Oh, they’re too busy sticking cigarette stubs into people’s ears, those Cupertino types, to mind the nerdy feeds and speeds of their phones. The iPhone is behind the Android curve on almost every spec, and yet it remains the world’s best-selling smartphone year after year. It’s not because specs don’t matter, but because the same spec means different things in the iOS and Android ecosystems. A s..

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• How to Tell Your Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Isn't of the Exploding Kind

  

  Samsung ssnlf is trying to rectify its disastrous Note 7 situation by replacing customers’ handsets. In case you missed it, Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7—the company’s flagship smartphone—has problems with overheating batteries that has caused some units to explode. The tech giant announced a recall just over a week ago and, over the weekend, Samsung launched a program through which customers can replace their Note 7 units. The company said the ability to replace the phone would be down to “lo..

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• Forget the iPhone 7 - here are 7 reasons the 2017 iPhone will blow everyone away

  

  The Apple AirPod wireless earbuds.Reuters/Beck Diefenbach Like it or not, the iPhone 7 won't have a headphone jack. There are lots of extremely cynical theories over why this might be, not least because driving demand for Lightning-based headphones would be a very good thing for Beats, an Apple subsidiary.  Regardless, Apple insists that removing the headphone jack was an act of "courage;" a bold willingness to sacrifice the comfortably familiar and push us toward the wireless-headphone futu..

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• Latest Pokemon GO Update Won't Work On Rooted Phones

  

  The recently announced Pokemon GO update started rolling out on Google Play Store over the weekend and should already be available for download all over the world. Just like it was expected, the version 0.37.0 of the popular mobile game introduces the ...

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• Microsoft's Latest Anti-MacBook Ad Focuses on Surface Pro 4's Touchscreen

  

  Over the weekend, Microsoft launched a new ad for the Surface Pro 4, continuing its marketing strategy of comparing the tablet computer to Apple's products, this time the 13-inch MacBook Air. The ad is the newest in Microsoft's anti-Apple theme of commercials, previously comparing the iPad Pro with the Surface Pro 4, the MacBook Pro with the Surface Book, and OS X with Windows 10. Just a few weeks ago, the MacBook Air was the focus of another Surface Pro 4 ad. Simple titled "Get the Surface P..

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