| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Create a 'Game of Thrones' Meme to Win an Epic Prize | | Monday, March 25, 2013 1:59 PM | Nora Grenfell |
| The web is on the edge of its seat as the Game of Thrones season three premiere approaches. HBO has released a series of trailers on YouTube, promising viewers even more battles, dragons and shocking twists. Can't contain your excitement for season three of Game of Thrones? We'll tide you over with an epic GOT prize pack. The television phenomenon has inspired countless online parodies, and of course, hundreds of memes.
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| Google Glass Could Be Subject to Texting-While-Driving Laws | | Monday, March 25, 2013 10:54 AM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Google Glass fans excited about the prospect of using the technology while cruising about in their car might have a roadblock ahead: An extension of texting-while-driving laws to cover the yet-unreleased Glass device. Gary G.
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