Microsoft’s Surface tablets are fairly impressive, the Surface Pro tablet being especially so. However, the steep price points of Microsoft’s offerings have failed to entice the users enough. Apparently, the company seems well aware of that and is now working with its OEM partners to bring cheaper Windows 8 tablets to the market.
Unlocking the latest mobile phones is considered the gateway to mobile freedom by many. It essentially frees you from the compulsion of using only the wireless carrier who offered the device in a contract. However, the perk of unlocking mobile phones will soon end as U.S. government is all set to ban it soon.
Nokia has been trying hard to push its Lumia lineup of smartphones into the limelight. Although the company has dished out a few excellent Lumia handsets in the later part of 2012, they are far from mainstream. In total, Nokia was able to sell 4.4 million Lumia devices during the fourth quarter of 2012.
Brevity has been a much-cherished literary tool and with the launch of Twitter, it became a hallmark of digital wit. While until now, Twitter asked of you to confine your thoughts to 140 characters, it has also come up with an adequate bar for videos – 6 seconds. iOS users can now enjoy the feature by using Vine to record and share video tweets.
There are many newspapers who let readers donate the proceeds of their subscriptions to an education fund when they go on vacation. These funds are used to provide newspapers and digital subscriptions to local classrooms. This week, The Boston Globe has announced that it is modernizing the “Newspaper in Education” program and taking it to iPads and projectors.
The movie jOBS : Get Inspired is going to be released in April and its initial premiere will be at Sundance Film Festival this month. To promote the movie, American actor Ashton Kutcher and Josh Gad are going to attend Macworld/iWorld conference in San Francisco and will talk about their experience portraying Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
Best Buy recently announced a deal which left many in disbelief for a few moments; you could save $50 at spending every $100 via MasterCard credit card. The deal applied to more or less all Best Buy items, with rare exceptions. As it turns out, the deal soon launched a buying frenzy on the e-retailer, forcing it to backtrack before the first day was done.
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We came to know via leaked image that this year’s first BlackBerry 10 smartphone will be BlackBerry Z10. Later a video showed that BlackBerry Z10 smartphone will have Instagram-like photo filters. Recently, Austrian website Telekom Presse has uploaded another video comparing Research in Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry Z10 smartphone to the iPhone 5, both in terms of physical design and software.