This Thursday we’re taking a slightly different approach to our “paid apps gone free” series by focusing on iOS games. At this point, you’re probably already loaded down with productivity apps, so why not take a break from being productive for free and start playing games for free instead. You’ve earned it. Here’s nearly $16 worth of iOS games that you can download for free for a limited time.
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Samsung’s next flagship phablet is the Galaxy Note 4, which will be unveiled on September 3rd during a special media event taking place in Berlin at IFA 2014. Now ZDNet Korea has apparently managed to confirm at least one of the processors Samsung will use for the new phablet.
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Shortly after announcing a special store for its Fleksy keyboard that will help users further customize their experience with the “fastest smartphone keyboard in the world,” the company is back with another significant update that brings official support for Arabic and that is also expected to add support for Chinese soon as well.
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Well, this would certainly be one way for Samsung to bolster its image as an innovator. ZDNet Korea’s supply chain sources claim that Samsung has started testing an absolutely wild new smartphone prototype that will feature a wraparound display that will completely eliminate side bezels. This means that the touch display will extend around to the side of the phone and will be used in lieu of the side buttons that we’re normally accustomed to on mobile phones.
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Google has purchased Emu, a smart chat application for mobile devices that can pepper messaging conversations with useful information mined from the users’ personal data, but also help the search giant get even more data from Google services users, and deliver ads inside chats at some point in the future, Wired reports.
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Microsoft isn’t about to let Apple hog all the prime retail real estate in New York. The New York Daily News reports that Microsoft is in talks to open up an enormous new 8,700-square-foot two-story retail outlet on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, just blocks away from Apple’s own giant retail outlet.
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While more and more carriers and Internet service providers are looking at ways of increasing data speeds, some people are still stuck on dial-up service, or at least they’re paying for it even though they might not really need it. AOL has no less than 2.34 million dial-up subscribers left, Re/code reports, who pay just over $20 per month for dial-up Internet access, even though many of them may already get their Internet fix from somewhere else.
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Apple will unveil the iPhone 6 in early September, and launch at least one version of it in the weeks following the keynote. The company is said to have placed iPhone 6 orders amounting to 80 million units for 2014, which would make the iPhone 6’s launch the biggest in Apple history so far. A new report from Digitimes seems to indicate that the iPhone maker plans to sell a large number of handsets in the second half of the year, as the Taiwanese publication reveals that Apple suppliers in the region are doing quite well financially.
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One of Amazon’s latest initiatives is being updated to get more items to customers on the same day that they deliver than ever before. Amazon announced today in a press release that it would be bringing “Get it Today” capabilities to its online store for customers in Baltimore, Dallas, Indianapolis, New York City, Philadelphia and Washington DC metro areas. With “Get it Today,” you’ll be able to order as late as 1pm local time (in select locations) and still receive any of the million-plus items eligible for same-day delivery.
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Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 tablet might finally be gaining some traction for Microsoft in the tablet market, but the whole Surface venture has come at an enormous cost. Computerworld notices that Microsoft revealed in an 8-K statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission this week that it has lost $1.7 billion on its Surface line of tablets so far, which is nearly double the $900 million write down that Microsoft took last year on unsold Surface inventory.
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