Samsung has been fined $340,000 by Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission for an Internet campaign against HTC that violated fair trade rules. The South Korean company paid students to praise its own smartphones in online reviews while slamming those of rival HTC.
Everyone donates to charity in their lifetime, and one of the main ethical issues we face is not knowing where the money is going. Is all our donation going to the charity, or is a fraction of it being filtered into the founders bank account? For some people not knowing where their hard-earned donation is going, has proved to be somewhat of an issue. Up until now, that is.
HTC has today begun rolling out its Android 4.3 update with Sense 5.5 to the international HTC One. The update, which weighs in at 675.48MB and comes with build number “3.62.401.1,” makes a whole host of improvements and enhancements, and addresses various bugs.
As part of its Un-carrier 3.0 initiative, starting Friday, 1 November, 2013, T-Mobile U.S. will be giving 200MB of free LTE data to all its slate users. Every 30 days, the promotions team over at T-Mobile will automatically credit each registered users account with 200MB of complimentary LTE data, which can be used on any Android-powered tablet with a SIM slot.
Developers love getting their hands on a kernel source code, primarily because it allows them to develop some great new custom ROMs with awesome features you don’t usually get as standard, as of today, the official Android 4.3 kernel files for the Galaxy S4 can be downloaded directly from Samsung’s Open Source Release Center.
