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Samsung Galaxy S series all models Smart device market-leader Samsung has sold a million Galaxy Note II phablets in its home market South Korea just 92 days after launch. The company  announced last month that it has sold over 5 million Galaxy Note II units worldwide and, if the trend continues, the device will possibly hit a ten million sales high by early 2013. The latest milestone provides even more prof that consumers have become increasingly accustomed to   phablets . In just little over a year, Samsung phablets, especially the Galaxy Note, made quite an impact on smartphone- and tablet design, beating Apple in innovation as they left their mark on the iPhone 5 and the iPad Mini. Other Samsung smartphones have done extremely well: the Galaxy S3 overtook the iPhone 4S as the world’s best selling phone in the3rd quarter of 2012 and gained an 11% share of all smartphones sold worldwide. In between the still ongoing patent wars with Apple, it looks like the two ri...

Snapchat is a new photo sharing app that is sweeping app stores worldwide. Unlike posting pics to Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram; once they are seen by the intended recipient, they are gone. Snapchat is a free iOS and Android app that takes your snapshot, then allows you to send it to your friends. The built-in timer, allows you to set how long the person you are sending your picture to can see your image. The app will not even allow you to save the picture to your phone, or pull a photo from your photo library, so when the picture has been sent and seen, it's gone for good. That adds a nice fun element to it all. It’s almost like you need to make every moment count. Because once it’s gone… But there are some warnings about this new kid on the block as well. Some people believe it's helping tweens and teens to use the app as a way to send explicit messages and pictures. By putting a timer on their photos, some believe they can send potentially scandalous (sexually tinted) pic...

Early 2012 iPhone 6 design prototype / concept The most recent leaked internal prototype models of the Apple iPhone 6 for one thing tell us that the new iPhone 6 will most probably be fitted with a 4.8 inch Retina+ IGZO display, an A7 quad-core processor and no more home-button. The iPhone 6 is said to be launched in June 2013.

Deleting Instagram account Recently, Instagram unveiled its new TOS (terms of service which states that users automatically agree to enable Instagram to sell their users' (your) pictures to third parties such as advertisers, advertising companies and media companies. Although the chances of your picture ending up on a billboard advertising, pantyliners, for most of us it is an unacceptable option we really cannot do anything against. Here is how you can download all your content from Instagram and delete / remove your account. You may opt for a Google Picassa account as an alternative for your Instagram account, as Picassa really does protect your images under private copyright. >>> Downloading pictures from Instagram You can use the application Instaport to download your images from Instagram and store it temporarily or indefinitely on your own computer, flash drive or any other physical media. Your images will be saved as a zip-achrive. Alternatively it's also pos...

Since the introduction of the first model, the tablet market has grown into gigantic proportions. It's no longer a one-horse race with tablet manufacturers offering us an even widening spectrum of options, sizes and configurations. With the year on its last legs, I'll present you with a final conclusion I personally make of this year's best four (full-size) tablets. Click on each individual tablet to read the review and specs. #4; Kindle Fire HD 8.9 #3;  Microsoft Surface RT   #2;  Google Nexus 10 #1;  Apple iPad 4

For the millions of traumatic brain injury victims , neuro-degenerative diseases , strokes, or different neurological diseases , paralysis could be a devastating consequence. Scientists in the field of neural prostheses for years tried to address limb paralysis by developing implantable brain sensors that translate thoughts to actions such as computer cursor movement. Perfecting the computer algorithm for this translation has proven to be a big challenge. But recently, researchers at Stanford University have designed an algorithm, known as ReFIT, that greatly improves the speed and accuracy of neural prostheses which control computer cursors. The advantage of the ReFIT technology is that it allows the system to make immediate adjustments while guiding the cursor to a target, just as a hand and eye work together to move a mouse-cursor onto an icon on a computer desktop. According to the press release: The system relies on a silicon chip implanted into the brain, which records “action...