| T-Mobile Gets Rid of Cellphone Contracts | | T-Mobile has done away with cellphone contracts, replacing them with installment plans in an effort to stay competitive in the U.S. market. Instead of offering its customers a phone with a two-year contract, T-Mobile will offer it for a fixed upfront price plus a monthly fee for unlimited calls and data.
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| 'World's Smallest Cellphone Charger' Provides Emergency Backup | | A cellphone charger claiming to be the "world's smallest" aims to save users in a pinch when their battery is dying. Comparable to a quarter in size, the Fuel Micro Charger is designed to provide 20 to 30 minutes of extra talk time, or up to a few hours more while on standby.
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| Google+ Now Lets You Use GIFs for Profile Pics | | In what may be a sign of their resurgent popularity, Google+ announced Monday that members can now use animated GIFs for their profile photos. The social network unveiled the update in a post on its Google+ page, alongside a link to a Google search for "How to create a gif." Matt Steiner, a software engineer at Google, first made the announcement on his profile page.
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| Sleepy Meerkat Knows How You Feel | | Oh Soori, we feel your pain. Who among us hasn't nodded off a time or two (or 12) in the middle of a conversation? Sometimes all the caffeine in the world can't rouse us awake, so snooze we must. And this meerkat clearly just needs a nap. Someone get him a mini blanket and pillow STAT, and throw in a bedtime story for good measure.
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| 10 Firefox Add-Ons for Designers | | Firefox is an incredibly popular browser, chiefly due to the vast library of available extensions and add-ons. Since we spend huge chunks of our days working in browser windows, increase productivity by adding functionality to Firefox and cutting down time spent on external applications.
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| Zillow Updates Its Home-Rental App For Android | | Zillow released an Android update on Tuesday, adding Spanish-language support to the home-rental app. The app allows users to search for homes based on location, by using their phone’s GPS, typing in a specific address, or drawing a search boundary on a map (e.g. around your office or favorite neighborhood). Renters can also use Android’s voice-capabilities to search for locations.
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| Find the Next Steve Jobs: Exclusive Extract from Atari Founder's Book | | Monday, March 25, 2013 10:51 PM | Chris Taylor |
| How do you nurture creative talent in your company? It's an age-old question, and one that Atari founder Nolan Bushnell tackles in his book Find the Next Steve Jobs, released via a new publishing platform Tuesday. Bushnell, also the founder of Chuck E. Cheese, was Jobs' boss and confidant, to the extent that he was offered a one-third ownership stake in the fledgling Apple Computer in 1976 — and refused.
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| Tee Off With These 6 Golf Gadgets | | Monday, March 25, 2013 10:31 PM | Camille Bautista |
| You've been working on your swing all winter and now it's time to debut your expertly-practiced golf skills. Whether you prefer the virtual greens or putt with the pros, we've rounded up gadgets and games to help perfect your shots this season. Along with debuting his Facebook official relationship, Tiger Woods releases his PGA Tour 14 video game this month.
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| Make Old Speakers Bluetooth-Enabled With This Little Gadget | | Monday, March 25, 2013 9:47 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| If you have an old speaker collecting dust in the garage or shoved in the back of the closet, there's now a clever way to make it useful again. The London-based Paul Cocksedge Studio is raising funds on Kickstarter to further develop "The Vamp," a cube-like device that attaches to any speaker and adds Bluetooth capability.
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| 'BioShock Infinite' Is a Journey You Should Not Miss | | Monday, March 25, 2013 8:52 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| We all want a clean slate. Everyone has past misdeeds, large or small, that we wish could be wiped clean with one broad stroke. It's no different for Booker DeWitt, the hero of BioShock Infinite. His troubled past as a soldier who fought in the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890 and then as a Pinkerton agent, pushing people around for his bosses, has given him a heaping pile of regrets for his violent acts.
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| 'Wolverine' Director Teases Movie in Fierce 6-Second Vine | | Monday, March 25, 2013 8:26 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| The Wolverine director James Mangold is a big tease. On Monday, he shared a six-second Vine, which serves as the teaser for Tuesday's 20-second teaser for the movie's trailer that arrives Wednesday. He's calling the six seconds of looping video a "tweaser." The flick stars Hugh Jackman and comes out July 26.
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| Amazing Infographic Tells Story of Every Pakistan Drone Strike | | Monday, March 25, 2013 7:47 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| The U.S. drone war in Pakistan is what some of its critics have called a "shadow war," a conflict fought largely in secret and far from public oversight. The CIA is — for now — the main actor behind that war. And because of the secrecy surrounding it, we don't have a lot of statistics on the effects of this war, particularly the exact number of victims.
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| 30 Songs That Sound Like Spring | | Monday, March 25, 2013 7:06 PM | Jessica Fee |
| It was a rough winter this year, especially here in New York City. With Sandy and Nemo taking a serious toll on the East Coast, the promise of sunshine could not have come sooner. Spring is a season of transition, an opportunity to become more organized, to let loose on spring break, or to simply appreciate the natural beauty around you.
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| Pick Carly Rae Jepsen's Lyrics and More for 'American Idol' Finale | | Monday, March 25, 2013 6:48 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Grammy-nominated singer Carly Rae Jepsen, whose viral song "Call Me Maybe" spent nine weeks last year at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, needs your help. She's performing during American Idol's two-night finale on May 15 and wants you to choose the lyrics, stage effects, instruments, dancers' outfits and other performance elements — via online polls over the next eight weeks as part of Coke's Perfect Harmony program.
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| Teenage You Will Melt at Backstreet Boys 'Harlem Shake' | | Monday, March 25, 2013 6:03 PM | Neha Prakash |
| The teenage you might be having some sort of nostaligic heart attack from boy band overload, but the adult you probably can't process what transpires in this video. The Backstreet Boys have created their own larger than life (wink wink) "Harlem Shake" video.
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| March Madness: 26% Use Mobile as Main Viewing Device | | Monday, March 25, 2013 5:42 PM | Bob Al-Greene |
| How's your bracket doing so far? Still worth the paper it's printed on? Maybe you're a bit bummed about losing out in your office pool. It might help put things in perspective to consider the sums of money that change hands every year during March Madness.
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| Activists Abhor Draft Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Amendment | | Monday, March 25, 2013 5:26 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) has become one of the most hated laws in technology — and a discussion draft of CFAA amendments circulating Monday does not appear to be bridging the chasm of opinion surrounding the law. Instead, the draft, which lacks a known author, is only serving to further aggravate the rising chorus calling for CFAA reform.
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| Nike Draws Criticism for Tiger Woods Tribute | | Monday, March 25, 2013 5:15 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| A Nike Facebook and Twitter post featuring Tiger Woods and the caption "Winning takes care of everything" has drawn criticism for perceived insensitivity about Woods' divorce. Woods became the world's No. 1 ranked golfer on Monday after his win at Bay Hill. Woods hasn't had the top ranking since 2010. Woods' slump began in 2010, the year of his divorce from Elin Nordegren.
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| FreedomPop to Bring Free Mobile Broadband to Poorest Americans | | Monday, March 25, 2013 5:04 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| FreedomPop, a company offering free and reduced-price wireless broadband Internet connections and equipment, has announced a new partnership with non-profit Connect2Compete to offer up to 1GB of free data to low-income families in cities across the country.
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| Evernote vs. Google Keep: Which Does More? | | Monday, March 25, 2013 4:55 PM | Christina Warren |
| Now that Google Keep is officially out in the wild, how does Google's note-taking and syncing service compare with longtime favorite Evernote? From the moment Google Keep was accidentally leaked, it looked like Google was building an Evernote clone. In the wake of the official release, its name, announcement video and aspects of the user interface all evoke a certain Evernote-like quality.
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| Golfer Climbs Tree, Hits One-Handed Backward Shot | | Monday, March 25, 2013 4:51 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Sergio Garcia is going above and beyond to get the perfect golf shot — 12 feet above, that is. At Sunday's Arnold Palmer Invitational, the golfer was faced with quite the conundrum when he found his golf ball up a tree. But that didn't stop the Spaniard from completing the hole. Garcia simply shimmied up a tree to make his 10th-hole shot.
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| Google Shows Its Zany Side With 15-Second Chrome Ads | | Monday, March 25, 2013 4:45 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Google gives three solid reasons for using Chrome and one nonsensical one in this new batch of ads for its Chrome browser. As Business Insider speculates, this may be the first campaign from 72andSunny, the hot ad agency behind Samsung's and Carl's Jr.'s latest ads. 72andSunny won the account last month. Reps from the agency could not be reached for comment.
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| RebelMouse Will Now Auto-Update Your Blog for $10 a Month | | Monday, March 25, 2013 4:30 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| RebelMouse, a social publishing service, has received plenty of buzz for helping users create a dedicated page for all of the content they share on social networks. Now, the company is launching a paid feature called Powered Sites that lets users create and manage a more social webpage from their own custom domain or sub-domain.
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| The 10 Coolest Things Coming to Your Home | | Monday, March 25, 2013 4:19 PM | Andrea Smith |
| The Architectural Digest Home Design Show is a great place to go, if you're dreaming of winning the Powerball jackpot. The show, which wrapped up this past weekend in New York City, provided an up-close, hands-on look at all the ways you can spend that money by creating the home of your dreams.
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| Is Tildaing the New Tebowing? | | Monday, March 25, 2013 3:55 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Tilda Swinton’s literal snoozefest at the Museum of Modern Art inspired us to sleep pose like the acclaimed actress. Say hello to #Tildaing, Internet.
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| Zuckerberg Forming Political Organization to Push For Immigration Reform | | Monday, March 25, 2013 3:22 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly forming a political advocacy organization along with other businesses leaders that will make economic and business arguments in favor of comprehensive immigration reform as well as other long-term issues they deem important to their companies' long-term economic growth.
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| Developers Help Decide 'What's for Dinner' With Campbell's Soup App | | Monday, March 25, 2013 2:59 PM | Camille Bautista |
| It's the age-old, universal question, forever debated in homes every day: What's for dinner? Developers across the U.S. found answers in Campbell's "Hack the Kitchen," a contest to create web or mobile apps for mealtime solutions. The winning app, FoodMood, approaches dinner choices by tapping into user's emotions. By simply asking, "What's your mood?" the app suggests recipes based on your food preference and current feeling.
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