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  • Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ pre-orders will open in Malaysia on April 11

    The Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ will finally become available for pre-order in Malaysia on April 11 at 10AM local time. The S8 is going for RM 3,299 ($743.60) while the S8+ is going for RM 3,699 ($833.76). Samsung Galaxy S8 When pre-ordering in Malaysia, you can get a bunch of freebies. In fact, there…

  • Twitter sues the US Department of Homeland Security for trying to break the first amendment

    If you don’t know what’s going on between Twitter and the United States Government right now, grab some popcorn and take a seat. We’ll try to make it as simple as possible, as there is quite a bit of meat on this bone. Twitter is suing the United States Department of Homeland Security for demanding…

  • Facebook Messenger gets “M” assistant

    Facebook Messenger has released a new assistant called “Messenger M”. We’re actually quite glad it was not named “M assistant. But anyway, the premise of M is: you can receive suggestions to take actions (right from the message screen) based on the context of your conversation. All this sounds quite familiar. is starts with “Google”…

  • Samsung Galaxy Note8 has been assigned software build numbers

    Now that the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ rumor mill is no longer churning, the next device we’ll be hearing a lot about over the next several months is going to be the Galaxy Note8. What that said, SamMobile reports that the Korean electronics giant has already begun developing software for the successor to the…

  • Android Wear 2.0 is now headed to the LG G Watch R and original Watch Urbane

    Android Wear 2.0 finally started rolling out at the end of last month, even though it was initially supposed to come out last fall, and then got delayed to February. Better late than never, right? Well, yes, but then Google found a big nasty bug even after the rollout commenced, so it had to pause…

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