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| Your Landline Could Get a Second Life With 'The Home Phone' | | 2:58:36 AM | Camille Bautista |
| Dust off that landline — household phones may be making a comeback with a new Kickstarter project. The Home Phone, designed by French husband and wife team UrbanHello, is a smartphone for the whole family, allowing shared conversations with its automatic hands-free mode. When placed on a surface, the 360-degree loudspeaker activates, and its use reduces electromagnetic wave exposure by 99%.
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| Microsoft Officially Ditching Messenger, Switching Users to Skype in March | | Windows Live Messenger will officially retire this March, Microsoft announced Tuesday in a mass email to the chat service's users. On March 15, all users will be switched over to Skype, which the software giant acquired for $8.5 billion in October 2011. "We are retiring the existing Messenger service globally ...
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| Samsung Shows Off Curved OLED TV | | Tuesday, January 08, 2013 9:11 PM | Pete Pachal |
| LAS VEGAS — You're not seeing things: This TV from Samsung has a slight curve to it. The company claims it's the world's first curved OLED TV, and we don't doubt it. What advantage does a curved TV have over flat panels? Samsung says the curves gives panoramic images such as nature scenes a more life-like viewing experience.
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| T-Mobile to Expand Value Plans and Let You Upgrade Early | | Tuesday, January 08, 2013 8:48 PM | Emily Price |
| LAS VEGAS — T-Mobile originally launched its value plans in September 2011 and Tuesday it announced plans to move all of its devices to the Value plan model. Most phones you purchase at a carrier are subsidized by that carrier. What that means is you might get a $600 phone for $200, with the carrier picking up the tab for the leftover $400 of the device's purchase price.
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| T-Mobile Brings Free Data to Windows 8 Laptops and Tablets | | Tuesday, January 08, 2013 8:29 PM | Emily Price |
| T-Mobile announced 4G Connect Tuesday, a new program that gives customers a free 4G data connection with the purchase of select notebooks, tablets, and Ultrabooks. With the program, customers will be able to access the web from their device, straight out of the box, for free.
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| Ro Marley Talks Sustainable Tech at CES 2013 | | Tuesday, January 08, 2013 7:31 PM | Ryan Lytle |
| The CES 2013 showroom opened for business Tuesday, and Vegas is buzzing with innovation, new gadgets and devices. Ro Marley, the son of late reggae artist Bob Marley and head of audio and accessory company House of Marley, stepped away from the excitement to join Mashable for a Google+ Hangout.
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| Race for First Tightens on Day 2 of CES Challenge | | Tuesday, January 08, 2013 6:22 PM | Nora Grenfell |
| The Mashable team has spent its second day at CES 2013. Thanks to the FuelBands team members were wearing, we were able to track their physical activity and fitness throughout the day. The team member to log the most miles will win our CES Mashable Challenge. Over the course of one day in the Las Vegas convention center, they collectively logged almost 30 miles in about 100 hours.
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| Feast Your Eyes on the Epic Panasonic 4K OLED TV | | Tuesday, January 08, 2013 5:57 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| LAS VEGAS — Just one day after Sony introduced its 4K OLED TV at the 2013 International CES, Panasonic unveiled its own 56-inch prototype. And, in a word, it's stunning. Panasonic's 4K OLED TV is set off to the side of the manufacturer's booth at the week-long event in Las Vegas, but it's hardly out of sight. The TV is attracting droves of eyes and for good reason.
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| Is Apple Developing a Cheaper iPhone? | | Tuesday, January 08, 2013 5:45 PM | Christina Warren |
| Apple is reportedly working on a lower-cost iPhone and it could arrive as soon as this year. This rumor is courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, which cites "people briefed on the matter." The Journal's report comes just hours after a similar post from the usually unreliable Digitimes, which posited that a lower-cost iPhone targeted at China and other emerging markets is on its way.
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| 8 Successful Companies That Changed Domain Names | | Tuesday, January 08, 2013 5:43 PM | Amy Burke |
| Rebranding, re-launching, brand confusion, vagueness: factors that contribute to the decision to rename a website. More often than not, creators shell out big money to purchase already existing domain names not only to simplify traffic flow (just ask Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg), but to make sure they match perfectly with the brand. Here are a few brands that have not only survived the switch but have thrived ever since.
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| Aereo is Expanding to 22 New Cities This Spring | | Tuesday, January 08, 2013 4:04 PM | Christina Warren |
| Cord-cutting startup Aereo announced Tuesday that it will be officially expanding into 22 additional cities this spring. Until now, only New York City residents have had access to Aereo. That will change in a few months, as the company plans expansion to cities such as Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit, Boston, Houston and Philadelphia.
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