• T-Mobile's Wideband LTE network goes live in New York City

  T-Mobile has announced that its Wideband LTE network is now live in the greater New York City metro area. The technology allows customers on LTE to attain speeds in excess of 100 Mbps.

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• Gartner: 301M Smartphones Sold In Q3 As Xiaomi Muscles Into The Top 5 At Samsung's Expense

   Smartphones now account for 66% of all mobile phones worldwide and are on track to see 2014 sales of 1.2 billion units in 2014. But while Android appears to have "won" the so-called platform war, the two-horse race between smartphone vendors — between Samsung and Apple — looks like it…

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• Samsung's metal-clad Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A3 launch in Taiwan

  Samsung is looking to reinvigorate its portfolio with new designs that are aimed at a younger audience, with the Galaxy A series said to be the starting point of that change. The manufacturer has launched the Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A3 in Taiwan, and while the former handset is already available in a…

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• Snap Fashion Extends Its Visual Search Engine App Into Men's Clothes

   London fashion startup Snap Fashion has extended its discovery platform into a visual search engine for men's clothes, as well as women's. The fashion app is available on Google Play and Apple iTunes. Snap's visual algorithms were invented and coded by 27-year-old founder Jenny Griffiths,…

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• Scientists "upload" a roundworm brain to a LEGO robot

  It sounds like a scene from a sci-fi flick. Or a horror film. Take your pick. Scientists of the future have finally found a way to digitize our brains and store them in storage disks (or Dilithium crystals for more capacity). One day you're human and the next day you find yourself in the body of…

• LG launches Tab Book Duo Windows 8 tablet convertible

  A bit unexpected, LG just revealed the latest member of its Tab Book family. Not exactly well known even among the ranks of Windows 8 tablets, the Tab Books have been around since 2013, switching from Windows to Android and now back to Windows again. This time, LG is going for thin and light,…