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Did Yahoo just do something right?

3 days ago on Yahoo unveils the new Flickr with one terabyte of free space 1 reply 4 recommends

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Half true. The fact is, there are enough applications & software out there that we could all get by without SMS just fine.

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Camera superiority has it though, not worth the extra $300 though.

I can’t understand why this phone is $650 while the Nexus 4 is $350.
Wouldn’t removing all of the proprietary unique/special Galaxy S4 software capability, like the multicamera and stuff.. drive down the price? Isn’t that the bit that makes these premium devices expensive?

7 days ago on This is the new Nexus: a first look at Samsung's Galaxy S4 with stock Android 2 replies 1 recommend

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T-Mobile hasn’t done away with contracts, that’s just what they want you to believe.

You’re actually paying them more over a period of 24 months if you do their financing. You have always had the option of buying the device outright. So when you think about it logically, nothing has changed. It sounds really good for their whole “uncarrier” thing though.

7 days ago on This is the new Nexus: a first look at Samsung's Galaxy S4 with stock Android 4 replies 1 recommend

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Which is a lot of everwhere.

7 days ago on This is the new Nexus: a first look at Samsung's Galaxy S4 with stock Android 2 recommends

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Have you heard of this thing, where young people who don’t have an excellent job, or lots of extra money laying around, can’t get consumer credit anywhere? It’s kind of a thing.

7 days ago on This is the new Nexus: a first look at Samsung's Galaxy S4 with stock Android 4 replies 8 recommends

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Right. I know all too well.

7 days ago on This is the new Nexus: a first look at Samsung's Galaxy S4 with stock Android

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Something to that effect I’d imagine.

8 days ago on Windows RT hits a new low: just $300 for Dell's XPS 10 convertible 1 reply

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Two of those things aren’t nearly as important as the other.. j/s

10 days ago on Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories' available now to stream in its entirety from iTunes (update) 1 recommend

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Indy Car, Formula 1 and Formula 2 ^^ seen above are all three different things entirely.

13 days ago on Why 'SimCity' has no parking lots, and other insights from the lead designer 1 reply

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Yes, now we have all that delicious chemically treated and genetically modified food. nom nom nom

13 days ago on Award-winning director accused of breaking China's 'one child' policy, faces $26 million fine 1 recommend

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Agreed, but that said this is a little extreme. Of course, I’ve never been to/lived in China so I don’t know or understand culture or anything about daily life in the country itself.

13 days ago on Award-winning director accused of breaking China's 'one child' policy, faces $26 million fine

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McDonalds, pretty much every service/gas station, some starbucks had NFC payment fobs up by the checkout.

It wasn’t just one place, the Visa PayWave standard was out there a year before Google Wallet was even a thing. So those little NFC boxes that sit on top of the Debit/Credit POS machines are pretty common, even in the rural area where I live.

13 days ago on Google reportedly shelves plans to launch Wallet credit card at I/O 3 recommends

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It’s not that it ever needed carrier support, it just needed the carriers to get the %@#$ out of the way, allowing users to actually use the software instead of blocking it. Since I’m certain it will work on just about any device with Android 4.x and NFC.

13 days ago on Google reportedly shelves plans to launch Wallet credit card at I/O 2 replies 1 recommend

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LiveFree-OrDie is right though.. this is big hotel biz pushing down on the little guy.

It’s no different than the Taxi mafia going after Uber and the like. They’re trying to protect their business because someone has found a way to make money, stabilize their lives and have a secondary or maybe even primary income without having to shell out money for licenses/qualifications/etc.

13 days ago on Landlords beware: Airbnb is booming in big cities, but many users run legal risks 1 reply 3 recommends

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If you want a movie that will refresh your desensitization go find yourself an unedited/unabridged copy of ‘A Serbian Film’ you can’t shower off that feeling..

16 days ago on NIN art director Rob Sheridan on 'Broken' controversy: 'this was never meant to be so easy to watch' 4 replies 1 recommend

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When you look at the balance of it, sort’ve yeah. I mean, sure education, public safety, roads/highways, it all goes there too. If more of it went to those things than into the pockets of politicians with 3 or 4 houses, expensive cars, lavish “business” expenses.. then I probably wouldn’t mind being milked for additional cost on online purchases. However, I know this isn’t the case.. you’ll see that the difference this will make for the betterment of quality of life will be nil.

16 days ago on Senate passes nationwide online sales tax bill