How Microsoft might get you to care about Windows Phone
It’s impossible to argue that Windows Phone has been anything close to a success at this point but that doesn’t mean Microsoft should give up on it. In fact, unless Microsoft wants to get out of the software platform game all together, it has to establish at least some foothold in the mobile market. So what’s a tech giant to do? Jan Dawson has written a very smart column over at Techpinions that includes a three-step plan that could help Microsoft actually get people to care about Windows Phone.
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‘I’ll be back’: Watch Arnold’s explosive return in the first Terminator Genisys trailer
If you’re a fan of classic movie franchises and their inevitable resurrections, the past few weeks have been an absolute frenzy. First there was the trailer for Jurassic World, then Star Wars: The Force Awakens stormed on to the scene, and now Paramount is keeping the ball rolling with the first trailer for Terminator Genisys.
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Watch this exhaustive comparison of Android Auto and CarPlay
This year, both Apple and Google officially launched their vehicle dashboard interfaces, CarPlay and Android Auto. We’ve seen them action before, but 9to5Mac’s Macmixing recently had a chance to check out both in the same car at the LA Auto Show. This allowed for one of the most thorough comparisons we’ve seen so far.
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You’ll be amazed at these beautiful microscopic photos of the Galaxy Note 4
The Galaxy Note 4 is a fantastic phablet but we’ve never thought of it as a work of art… until now. Hungarian website NapiDroid photographed the Galaxy Note 4 under a digital microscope that magnified it by between 200 to 500 times. The results are absolutely stunning as they show how incredibly cool Samsung’s flagship phablet can look from very up close.
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GREAT DEAL: Get 90% off Spotify Premium for three months
Is there anything worse than when an awesome Spotify playlist is interrupted by an annoying commercial? Yes, plenty of things are worse, but it’s still bothersome and avoidable if you’re willing to pay for Spotify’s ad-free Premium service. The Premium option will normally set you back $9.99 per month, but right now Spotify is offering a great deal on its paid service that offers new users a huge 97% discount.
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Here are the 3 best video games released in the last month
We’re currently hard at work finalizing our list of the best games of the year, but until then, we’ve decided to put together a list of the console and PC games released last month that you should look into picking up (if you haven’t already). November was an extremely busy month for game releases, but this list should hopefully help you sort through the noise.
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The ‘HTC Hima’ is a monster Android smartphone launching early next year — WE CAN’T WAIT!
After a report detailed some of the specs of HTC’s One (M8) successor, so far referred to as the HTC One (M9), a leaker who posted accurate information about unreleased HTC devices in the past has now shared more details about what looks like a new monster Android handset coming from the Taiwanese handset maker in the next few months.
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Woz dispels one of the biggest myths about the early days of Apple
As far as early Apple lore goes, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak working furiously to build the first Apple I in Jobs’ tiny garage in California has to be one of the most popular stories. However, in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, Woz says that his and Jobs’ reliance on the famous garage as a workspace has been greatly overstated.
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South Park hilariously rips into PewDiePie and YouTube gaming commentary
It’s 2014. We ingest our games differently than we did ten years ago. Rather than reading a review, buying a game and playing that game from start to finish, we now have the option to just watch somebody else play it instead. The age of video game commentary is upon us, which means we’re overdue for South Park’s opinion on the subject.
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New report rips a hole into AT&T’s justification for throttling its ‘unlimited’ data users
AT&T has been taking heat for throttling the data speeds of some users who supposedly have grandfathered “unlimited” data plans. Ars Technica’s Jon Brodkin has found that while the carrier has stopped throttling some unlimited customers, “the company’s older, more draconian throttling policy still applies to customers with unlimited LTE data.” What’s more, AT&T says that it will change this policy for all of its customers some time in 2015, although it won’t give us a timeframe of exactly when we can expect it to happen.
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