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Nokia Announces The Lumia 925, An Aluminum Flagship

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LONDON – In 2011, Nokia launched its first Windows Phones — the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 — on stage during an event in London.

Nokia and Windows Phone have come a long way in the past two years, and on Tuesday the company added another handset to its Lumia line at an event in London, the Lumia 925. The phone will be Nokia’s flagship device at T-Mobile in the United States, and will be available in Europe and China starting in June.

Running Windows Phone 8, the handset sports much of the same functionality you’ll find in Nokia’s other flagship devices, the Lumia 920 and Lumia 928, while also bringing some new things to the table in terms of design and features. Read more…

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Google’s Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen on the New Digital Age

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The growth of the web, the developing world and digital-age career skills were all topics of discussion last Thursday night at a special fireside chat with tech heavyweights Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen at Google‘s Venice, Calif., headquarters.

The talk felt like an in-person abstract for the duo’s new book, The New Digital Age, which was finished after the two traveled to more than 25 countries to forecast the global digital evolution.

“In the next five to ten years, another 5 billion people will join the Internet,” said Schmidt, the company’s chief executive and one of the world’s richest men. Read more…

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Sniff Your Phone: This Device Puffs Out a Scent

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The sense of smell is a tough one to work into media — attempts at getting it into movies date back to the 1930s, and Disneyland and Walt Disney World include scents in some of their attractions. Technology companies have tried adding it to video games and television, so it was only a matter of time before someone tried to add it to a smartphone.

ChatPerf, a Japanese company, is rolling out a smartphone add-on about the size of a USB stick that attaches via the 30-pin connector on an iPhone (a company spokesperson told Diginfo TV that an Android version would be available this fall). The add-on is tiny “tank” that contains a given smell. After it’s attached to the phone, a screen comes up with a “puff” button that the user taps to release a scent. Read more…

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What to Expect at BlackBerry Live 2013

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Google isn’t the only company holding a mobile developer conference this weekBlackBerry’s annual BlackBerry Live conference kicks off Tuesday in Orlando.

It’s been a big year for BlackBerry. In the last four months the company has changed its name, released its first BlackBerry 10 smartphone (the BlackBerry Z10) and rolled out its first QWERTY BlackBerry 10 device, the BlackBerry Q10.

While the verdict is still out as to whether BlackBerry is truly “back” — and if it can realistically compete against the iOS and Android juggernauts — the company is certainly going into the conference in a better position than it did last year. Read more…

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