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Surveillance is a big issue that has been making headlines in recent times. There had been reports that the US government, specifically the NSA constantly gaining access or forcing its way into servers to gain access to people's data stored on Tech giant servers. In other to address this issue of surveillance, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook along with seven other tech companies  wrote a open letter to the US president Barrack Obama and members of Congress urging them to look into reforming the government surveillance tactics being used according to the Wall Street Journal. The letter, which was endorsed by the tech companies can be found in this website . It is expected to appear today in full-page on different  publications such as the New York Times and Washington Post. However, an excerpt of the letter is shown below. "Dear Mr. President and Members of Congress, We understand that governments have a duty to protect their citizens. But this summer’s...

Samsung Galaxy S5 is expected in 2014, however, a Korean media says that the company is getting ready to tease the device for January 2014 and then release for February 2014. In fact, Naver cites insiders who claim that the Galaxy S5 would be teased as early as January 2014, and be announced the next month, in February. That coincides with the MWC expo, and it doesn't seem far fetched that Samsung is going to unveil something major around those dates. The rush is apparently due to sagging sales of the Galaxy S4, the sources claim, and Samsung has decided to shorten the life cycle to 9 months instead of the usual eleven or so, and this reason we heard mentioned by another Korean publication just two days ago. There is so much competition on the smartphone industry and that has really got Samsung on their toes especially with Apple's release of a 64bit architecture processor which Qualcomms says its a powerful chip. Samsung is going to try retaliate by com...

Samsung is gearing up to be the first to release a curved display for smartphones come October this year.  This plan was initially revealed in Seoul during the launch of Galaxy Note 3 and it does seem that its going to materialize sooner than expected. Although, Samsung is not the only company looking into releasing curve display technology, LG which is a long time rival of Samsung also have plans to mass produce both curve and flexible displays for smartphones by the end of 2013. It is important not to confuse curve screen with flexible screen which Nokia showed a year ago in the Nokia Kinetic programme. What we do know is  that curved displays will debut on Samsung devices next month but flexible displays are not expected anytime soon. In the meanwhile, you can smile at the revealing of Samsung's gold S4 (pictured above) that is ready for purchase soon which is definitely a reply to Apple's gold iPhone 5S. Like our Facebook page and follow on ...