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Trivial Posts #23: A Jukebox, A Fridge, And An Immortal Dragon

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Hello subscribers to Trivial Posts, it’s been a while…. lets see if I can get back into the swing of things with links out to curious stories, items that make me think, and stuff that’s just interesting. The Boys Are Always Back In Town Really the title says it all, but keep reading. Not only an exercise in humanity, but a wonderfully written story as well: Over the course of these past few months, I have come upon two bits of forbidden knowledge: One, this bar does not have a working “kill switch” (which allows the bartender to change a song in case

Samsung plans to return to profitability by using Nokia’s old strategy

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Samsung’s profits are down (60% year on year for Q3), because nobody is buying their high-end models and the average selling price per handset is dropping. Its solution is to…. sell more low-end handsets and promote the Note 4 heavily. That would be the Note 4 that they had to cut the launch price of because of the competition from the iPhone 6 Plus. Samsung is doing the same thing Nokia tried (which failed), that Palm tried (and failed), that [the standalone] Motorola tried (and failed), that Ericsson tried (and failed). What makes the South Korean company think they’re any different?

Paypal Chose Samsung And Apple Threw Its Toys Out Of The Pram

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Apple takes another leaf out of the U2 playbook with Paypal: But while these talks were going on, PayPal went ahead and partnered with Samsung on the Galaxy S5 fingerprint scanner, a move that was reportedly forced onto PayPal by eBay CEO John Donahoe… Apple was said to be absolutely furious that PayPal did the deal with Samsung, which led Apple to cut PayPal out of the Apple Pay process entirely. (One source said: “Apple kicked them out of the door. Apple Pay… “With or Without You.”

Reviewing the Samsung Galaxy S5

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I’ve spent some time with the Samsung’s Galaxy S5 (and the Gear 2 smartwatch), and the three-part review can be found over on Forbes. Last year’s Galaxy S4 felt a safe bet of a device. It continued Samsung’s smartphone plans, and the familiarity helped the sales. Iterating the Galaxy S5 was the easy option that would ensure nobody’s job was at risk. Like a Ford pick-up truck, this smartphone is a workhorse that gets the job done. That approach trades the impact of a fashionable and cutting edge device, it trades away the idea that you are an innovator and

I am shocked to discover mobile phone manufacturing happening in this bar

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Kurt Eichenwald takes a look at Samsung/Apple for Vanity Fair, and the… interesting strategy that Samsung has used time and time again in regards to patents and competitive pressure:  According to various court records and people who have worked with Samsung, ignoring competitors’ patents is not uncommon for the Korean company. And once it’s caught it launches into the same sort of tactics used in the Apple case: countersue, delay, lose, delay, appeal, and then, when defeat is approaching, settle. “They never met a patent they didn’t think they might like to use, no matter who it belongs to,” says

Keylogging Android by design

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Samsung are working on a service that allows application ‘a’ to receive the keystrokes from application ‘b’, ‘c’, ‘d’, etc (reports The Verge) so that application ‘a’ can be more contextually aware and deliver better search results and improved experiences. Automatically. I can’t see an issue with that at all. I’m sure everyone will be more than happy that Android will allow data to flow to apps, to servers outside of the handset, and be analysed and recorded, with nothing more than a security pop up at install. Nobody would ever leverage that for evil…