Awesome news, Android fans: Office for Android tablets is now available for you to try
Microsoft’s Office for iPad product was a great success last year, but the company did not bring its famous productivity suite to Android tablets at the same time. However, the company is getting closer to releasing an Android tablet optimized version of Office in the near future, as Microsoft on Thursday announced it’s taking registrations for a preview version of Office for Android tablets.
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Microsoft’s first Lumia smartphone is almost here
There are many Windows Phone Lumia handsets in stores, but these devices still have Nokia branding, which Microsoft has to ditch. However, that’s about to soon change, as the company next week will release its first ever Lumia handset that doesn’t have Nokia written anywhere on it. As The Verge reports, Microsoft has already started teasing a November 11th announcement on its website, when it should unveil the first Microsoft Lumia smartphone.
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Home Depot confirms 53 million email addresses stolen in massive hack
After confirming a few weeks ago that credit card details for more than 56 million customers were stolen by hackers who managed to breach Home Depot’s security system in a sophisticated Target-like manner, the retail store on Thursday also confirmed that as many as 53 million email addresses were also stolen by attackers, The New York Times reports.
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Here’s how you can have your own Star Trek communicator
While we’re a long way from being able to boldly go explore new galaxies Star Trek-style, a communicator such as the one worn by Enterprise employees to talk to one another is available for preorder right now for just $99, though buying just one won’t be enough to turn it into a Star Trek-like communicator.
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Comcast is ‘really sorry’ your TV services crashed twice this week
If you’re a Comcast customer, you may have noticed that you couldn’t watch some of your favorite shows at a couple of different points this week. And you weren’t alone — Consumerist reports that Comcast TV outages were widespread this week and that the company has issued a formal apology for the service disruptions, which were apparently so bad that many customers couldn’t get through to Comcast’s customer service lines to complain because they were being flooded with so many calls.
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Video: South Park hilariously shames ‘freemium’ smartphone games
If there’s one tremendously annoying trend over the past few years, it’s been the rise of “freemium” games that are free to download but that constantly charge you money to make the game actually enjoyable. The most infamous example of this was EA’s botched Dungeon Keeper reboot where players complained that the game took hours to even really get started unless you sent the developers money via microtransactions.
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New report says you shouldn’t expect a 128GB iPhone 6 Plus recall
Some 128GB iPhone 6 Plus owners with large app libraries have complained about unexpected crashes and reboots on their devices, with one report from South Korea suggesting the problem may lie with the memory modules chosen for this specific iPhone model, which could lead to a product recall. Soon after that, 9to5Mac refuted those claims, saying that Apple is aware of the “rare bug” and that the problem is not related to NAND flash memory.
In a new report, Digitimes agreed with 9to5Mac‘s findings, saying that the memory controller is unlikely to be the cause of this particular iPhone 6 Plus problem.
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New report says you shouldn’t expect a 128GB iPhone 6 Plus recall
Some 128GB iPhone 6 Plus owners with large app libraries have complained about unexpected crashes and reboots on their devices, with one report from South Korea suggesting the problem may lie with the memory modules chosen for this specific iPhone model, which could lead to a product recall. Soon after that, 9to5Mac refuted those claims, saying that Apple is aware of the “rare bug” and that the problem is not related to NAND flash memory.
In a new report, Digitimes agreed with 9to5Mac‘s findings, saying that the memory controller is unlikely to be the cause of this particular iPhone 6 Plus problem.
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Samsung is reportedly working on a mysterious new smartphone family
Samsung’s bad recent financial earnings raised a clear signal that the giant handset maker needs to make some changes to its smartphone lineup, and there are already signs that the company has gotten the message and it’s working on reinventing itself. Samsung has just launched a couple of metal smartphones, the Galaxy A3 and Galaxy A5, and is rumored to be designing the Galaxy S6 — aka Project Zero — from scratch, rather than improving on past Galaxy S design versions. Furthermore, SamMobile has learned that Samsung is also working on a new series of smartphones.
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Samsung conducts its own poll on the Note 4’s camera, discovers that it’s awesome
By all accounts, the Galaxy Note 4 really does have an incredible camera that can shoot beautiful 4K videos and take stunning photos. Samsung, however, doesn’t think it’s enough to just tell us straight up how awesome the Note 4’s camera is for itself, which is why it’s conducted its own poll of Note 4 users to determine which of the camera’s features are the best.
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