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T-Mobile to carry the iPhone 5 on April 12th for $99 up front — At long last, T-Mobile will carrying the Apple iPhone starting on April 12th. The fourth place carrier announced the news during a press event in New York on Tuesday. T-Mobile, the fourth largest carrier in the US …
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T-Mobile Makes Bold “Un-carrier” Moves — T-Mobile has been talking the talk; now it's walking the walk. The company, known for its “Un-carrier” attitude, today announced a series of moves to address consumer frustration with the unnecessary cost and complexity of wireless.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
‘Stop the bulls**t’ in wireless pricing says T-Mobile CEO John Legere — John Legere kicked off T-Mobile's event in New York City today with an unrelenting tirade against the carrier's competitors. “Stop the bulls**t,” the CEO said, referring to the traditional subsidy model being pushed by Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint.
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| Darren Murph / Engadget: |
Existing iPhone 5 handsets cannot have AWS support enabled, but Apple is shipping the new A1428 carrier-unlocked on April 12th — Starting April 12th, Apple retail shops as well as Apple's online store will begin selling the new and gently tweaked A1428 model of the iPhone 5.
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| Brent Rose / Gizmodo: |
T-Mobile's HD Voice Hands On: A Sweeter-Sounding iPhone — T-Mobile just announced its very own iPhone 5 and no-contract plans. One of the little subplots was that this would be the first iPhone to support HD Voice. We just went ears-on with to see if it's a difference you can actually hear.
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| Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
T-Mobile lights up LTE in seven markets nationwide — T-Mobile's LTE rollout has been a long time coming, but as of today that network is finally live. At an event in New York City, the carrier made its initial batch of LTE cities official — seven markets in total.
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Facebook Starts Selling Retargeted News Feed Ads Via FBX — A year ago, in the run-up to its IPO Facebook told the ad world it had a new plan: “Sponsored stories” — ads that looked like “real” content, that would show up on users' screens based on the way they and they their friends behaved on Facebook.| Somini Sengupta / New York Times: |
| Times of India: |
Apple plans to scale up presence in India, to triple exclusive stores to 200 by 2015 — KOLKATA/ NEW DELHI: Buoyed by the success of the iPhone in India, Apple Inc has decided to scale up its presence in the country and plans to triple its exclusive stores to around 200 by 2015, said three of its dedicated franchisees.| Reuters: |
Wal-Mart steps up its online game with help from stores — (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc is ramping up plans to combine its physical stores with online technology, testing the use of lockers to hold goods ordered on the Internet until shoppers pick them up, as the world's largest retailer tries …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows Phone 8 update to activate FM radios, enable double-tap to wake Lumia 920 — Microsoft is currently preparing a new Windows Phone 8 update, The Verge has learned. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have revealed that the software maker plans to support FM radio hardware in its latest update … | Ben Rooney / Tech Europe: |
What Does $30 Million Buy You? … The ink is dry on Yahoo Inc.'s Summly deal, but what has Yahoo actually got for its money? — While there has been no official confirmation of the price, several sources familiar with the matter said it was $30 million. — What Yahoo hasn't bought is the team.
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Microsoft talks publicly about Blue and Build 2013 — Summary: Microsoft officials are going public with positioning around Blue, as well as about the next Windows development conference, Build 2013. — It's a new world at Microsoft these days. The latest proof points … | Bloomberg: |
Intel Said Nearing Media Company Deals for Pay-TV Service — Intel Corp. (INTC) is making progress in talks with Time Warner Inc. (TWX), NBC Universal and Viacom Inc. (VIAB) to obtain TV shows and films for a first-of-its kind online multichannel pay-TV service, according to people with knowledge of the situation.| Matt Brian / The Verge: |
Sweden drops the word ‘ungoogleable’ following pressure from Google — The Language Council of Sweden has dropped the term “ungoogleable” from its list of new words, following pressure from Google to adapt its definition to something more flattering for the company.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
HTC ‘Tiara’ and Samsung Ativ S Windows Phones arriving at Sprint this summer — Sprint is bringing two Windows Phone 8 devices to its network this summer, from HTC and Sammsung. After committing to Windows Phone earlier this year, The Verge understands that Sprint will carry the Samsung Ativ S and an unannounced HTC “Tiara” handset.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft accused of locking out Linux in EU antitrust complaint — A Spanish group that represents open source software users has accused Microsoft of using an “obstruction mechanism” to prevent buyers of Windows 8 computers from installing Linux-based operating systems.
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Now Hosts 250M Monthly Gamers, Paid Out $2B To Devs In 2012 — Facebook stood loud and tall at today's Gaming Developers Conference, revealing that around 200 games on Facebook.com boast more than 1 million active users. Plus, more than $2 billion was paid out to game developers over the course of 2012.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Xbox Music updated with volume control, cloud sync options, and performance improvements — Hot on the feels of a significant Windows 8 Mail app update, Microsoft's Xbox team is releasing a new version of Xbox Music. The update brings performance improvements on the RT side …
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Apple's broken promise: why doesn't iCloud ‘just work?’ — Frustrations mount as developers deal with Apple's inability to manage another cloud service — iCloud, perhaps more than any Apple software product, is meant to “just work.” When Apple introduced iCloud, it made clear its hopes …
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Nudging Marketers, Google Introduces “Full Value Of Mobile” ROI Calculator — It's a multiscreen world now. And Google has been doing everything it can to help marketers catch up to consumers, who live in a world of several devices: PCs, tablets and smartphones. — Yet marketers still mostly live in the world of PCs.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google Play starts offering devices in India, starting with the Nexus 7 — Google Play Books recently launched for India; it's only fitting that locals get some hardware to read with. Accordingly, Google just opened device sales for India through Google Play, beginning with the Nexus 7.Sponsor Posts
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