Gorilla Glass 3 to debut at CES 2013

Gorilla Glass 3 will be stronger, more scratch resistant and more versatile and it will be coming to CES 2013. Gorilla Glass debuted on the original iPhone and has since been used on thousands of smartphones, tablets and even notebooks (remember the HP Spectre?) and HDTV's. The newest version is said to be three times more scratch resistant and features a proprietary "Native Damage Resistance" technology. Corning says that the few scratches that do occur will be invisible to the naked eye. 

Review: Samsung Galaxy Note II

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Rogers was kind enough to lend me a Samsung Galaxy Note II to review for a few days. I was interested to see what had changed since the original Note made waves a year ago at CES 2012, where it was one of the bigger stories in technology.

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Samsung Unveils ChatON 2.0 Instant Messenger in 200 countries

Samsung's announced ChatON 2.0, the next version of the popular global communication service that connects all phone users into a single community.

Now available in over 200 countries in more than 60 languages, ChatON provides easy instant messaging and group chatting in multiple formats—images, video, voice, contacts—to make communication simple, intuitive and fun. The upgraded service works on multiple connected devices—phones, tablets, connected cameras, and any web browser.

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Ubuntu for Phones makes major mobile push

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Canonical's Ubuntu OS is popular for being easy to install and use and for being quite malleable and capable of running efficiently on older PCs. Back in 2011, we featured a story about Ubuntu making inroads to mobile and late last year it was announced that multi-core smartphones could easily run the mobile version of the OS. Ubuntu just announced Ubuntu for Phones which will be showcased at CES in Las Vegas next week.

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