JD Power just released its cable customer satisfaction ratings – guess who ranked dead last?
Three things are certain in life: Death, taxes, and low customer satisfaction ratings for Comcast and Time Warner Cable. DSLReports points out that the cable industry’s non-dynamic duo have come in last place in JD Power’s latest customer satisfaction survey of cable customers.
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Yahoo is shutting down one of its biggest features this year
When you go on to Yahoo, you’ll notice the same things you’ve noticed for the past 20 years: Search bar and the directory. This past Friday, Yahoo announced on Tumblr that one of these things will go. Can you guess which?
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Windows Phone may join Android in a race to the bottom for cheap hardware
One reason that Android has spread so quickly is that Google allows anyone to use the bare bones of the platform for free. This has allowed venders in emerging markets such as Xiaomi and Micromax to crank out dirt-cheap Android handsets that have killer specs and that generate razor-thin margins for manufacturers. Of course, many of these cheapie handsets don’t have access to Android essentials such as the Google Play Store since Google actually does charge a licensing fee for manufacturers that want to use those features, but that doesn’t seem to matter to many buyers who just want an ultra-affordable smartphone.
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OnePlus’s One sequel set for mid-2015 launch
There weren’t many smartphones that received even a fraction of the buzz that the iPhone 6 did this year, but the OnePlus One somehow managed to find its way on to that list. With an aggressive marketing campaign and an air of mystery surrounding it, the CyanogenMod handset piqued the interest of the Android community right away, but nine months later, the phone still isn’t available to the public. Nevertheless, OnePlus doesn’t plan on slowing down any time soon.
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Apple faces a record fine in Europe over alleged illegal tax-dodging practices
Apple is not done facing tax-related inquiries, The Financial Times reports, as the European Union is investigating the company’s tax deal with Ireland. Preliminary findings apparently claim that Apple has benefited from illegal state aid after it reached certain special agreements with the Irish government that others companies based in the region — including Amazon, Facebook, PayPal and Twitter — do not enjoy.
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Here’s one way Cortana is well ahead of Siri and Google Now
Microsoft has been touting Cortana as a key reason for people to buy Windows Phones and by all accounts it’s an extremely impressive voice-enabled personal assistant — and now it looks like there’s one way it’s clearly ahead of Siri and Google Now. Nokia is touting a new series of products from connected home company INSTEON that promise to let you control key home appliances such as thermostats and Wi-Fi enabled cameras using voice commands issued through Cortana.
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Apple releases iOS 8.1 beta to developers, change log here
Apple has just seeded iOS 8.1 to developers. This makes one of the fastest iOS x.1 releases ever — normally the first beta is released a couple months after the new version of iOS ships. It could have to do with an much more aggressive software release schedule and the fact that Apple not only has the upcoming Apple Pay update, but most likely a software update for the company’s new iPads, and another one early next year to support Apple Watch. The change log follows below.
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Video: Mario Kart on Oculus Rift shows us how amazing virtual reality can be
I’m the best player of Mario Kart in the world despite what all my lying friends say. My dream would be to play Mario Kart for real, but since heat-seeking turtle shells are only a dream, the next best thing is to use Oculus Rift to make that my reality.
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Another huge iOS 8 bug could delete your iCloud Drive files
Apple was quick to release an updated version of its latest mobile operating system after the iOS 8.0.1 rollout proved disastrous, but it appears that the company is still quite a ways from ironing out all the bugs. Last week, security research Stefan Esser noted that QuickType was offering up his unique passwords as autocorrect suggestions, and now MacRumors forum users are reporting that the ‘Reset All Settings’ feature on iOS 8 is deleting iWork documents from the newly-implemented iCloud Drive service.
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You might not have to wait much longer for a 5K Retina iMac
Apple is apparently testing Retina iMacs internally, 9to5Mac and Jack March have learned, and it wouldn’t be surprising to see the company launch such new desktop computers in the following month, as soon as OS X Yosemite is ready for public launch.
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