Acer planned event set for April 23rd, will it bring more Chromebooks, tablets or a high-end phone?
Many of you know that Mobile World Congress has come and gone. During the event a number of device manufacturers announced their line of phones and other goodies. We know Samsung has the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge. HTC showed off the new One M9. While those are certainly the two that took top […]
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Swiftkey hops on March Madness with college basketball keyboard themes
The sports enthusiasts out there love to show their team colors in a variety of ways. Be it window stickers, flags, banners, face paint or jerseys. Many will change their wallpapers on their phone, tablet and PC to show their team spirit. If you happen to be rocking SwiftKey on your device though, now you […]
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Cricket Wireless to offer the new Moto E on March 13th for $129.99
Motorola has certainly been on a push to cover as many carriers as possible with at least one device. Recently the newly acquired Motorola announced the 2nd gen Moto E packing above average specs, Android 5.0 Lollipop and a price tag that is hard to ignore. We know the pre-paid side of Sprint, Virgin Mobile […]
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Microsoft may be headed for daily releases of the Windows 10 preview
It looks like Microsoft is about to hit the gas pedal on Windows 10 preview releases. Yesterday, plans about updates were discussed in detail on the Windows blog, but it now looks like Microsoft is considering adjusting the speed/risk balance of the Fast ring, with increased updates.
Loading up the Insider Hub for Windows 10, a message notes that “Flights are getting faster” and that if you are not ready for “daily builds” of Windows 10, you may want to head to the Slow ring level instead. This change does affect Windows Phone and desktop OS builds for the Windows 10 preview.
However, the information was reportedly posted in error and premature.
Get a taste of the Lumia 640 with this wallpaper pack
If you’re looking to grab a small taste (emphasis on small) of what the Lumia 640 has in store before it officially launches, you can now snag the pack of wallpapers that will be included on the device.
NCAA March Madness Live app to stream all 67 games online
From the end of March through the beginning of April, college basketball dominates television in the United States. Sports fans, even if they do not follow a specific college basketball program, tune-in to witness March Madness. With so many games taking place at odd times, there is a very good chance viewers will not have access to a television. That is where NCAA March Madness Live comes in.
The service, which operates on the web and on mobile devices, allows fans to stream each and every one of the sixty-seven games that comprise the tournament. It goes beyond streaming games as well by including team, statistics, brackets, and scores sections.
The NCAA March Madness Live service will be available on all major digital platforms starting March 12. A pay-TV subscription is required for full access to the service while limited access will be given to anyone. The games airing on TBS, truTV, and TNT will require registration (because they are cable networks) and those on CBS can be streamed without any credentials required.
NCAA® March Madness® Live™ to Present All 67 Games of the 2015 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship Across Digital Platforms
Newly Redesigned App to be Available via Amazon App Store, Apple App Store, Google Play, Windows Store & More
Robust TV Everywhere Offering Provides Fans With Exclusive Live Video Streaming Through Entire Tournament
NCAA March Madness Live will be the place basketball fans everywhere turn as the ultimate digital destination for all 67 games of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship. Completely redesigned for this year’s NCAA Tournament, the NCAA March Madness Live app – developed in partnership with the NCAA, Turner Sports and CBS Sports – will feature a sleeker design, improved navigation, an all-new GameCenter experience, a new “run” game and new sections focused on providing fans with more content than ever before. From Selection Sunday to the cutting of the nets in Indianapolis, fans will be able to watch all of the action via March Madness Live accessible from www.ncaa.com/marchmadness, http://www.CBSSports.com, http://www.bleacherreport.com, CBS Sports App, Bleacher Report’s Team Stream, the App Store, the Amazon App Store, Windows Store and Google Play on Thursday, March 12.
As part of the industry-wide TV Everywhere initiative, pay-tv subscribers will have unlimited live streaming coverage and on-the-go access to the tournament across all screens, including online, mobile and tablets, throughout the entire championship. Fans will have access to all games airing live on TNT, TBS and truTV by logging in with their TV service provider information, and all games broadcast on CBS with no registration required. NCAA March Madness Live will offer a temporary preview period giving users access to live game streaming before login is required. Additionally, fans can watch games via live streaming on TNT, TBS and truTV’s digital platforms, as well as participating TV provider websites.
New for the 2015 NCAA March Madness Live:
— “Teams” Section – The new teams section allows fans to follow their favorite team throughout the tournament with stats, video content, a season recap/snapshot, team roster and information outlining upcoming tournament match-ups.
— “Featured” Section – For the first time, fans will be able to view content that captures the story lines classic tournament moments, match-up analysis, top plays, press conference coverage, featured video content and more.
— GameCenter – The epicenter of NCAA March Madness Live has been reengineered to give fans more ways to watch live games on smartphones – allowing video viewing in both portrait and landscape orientations. In addition, companion content on smartphones and tablets, such as team and player stats and social content from the Coke Zero NCAA March Madness Social Arena, is more dynamic and more discoverable than ever before.
— Capital One NCAA® Tournament Run – A new game available at ncaa.com/tournament run that allows fans to stay competitive in the tournament after a busted bracket. To play, users must answer questions about each game match-up throughout the tournament to accumulate points and create the longest “run.”
— Capital One NCAA March Madness Bracket Challenge – This year, the official bracket game of March Madness – available via desktop, smartphones and tablets – is upgrading with new game features and more tools to help fans make their bracket picks. In addition, this is the only bracket game to integrate access to the live video stream of every match-up during the tournament.
Additional NCAA March Madness Live content will include “excitement” alerts for big moments throughout the tournament, as well as fan-favorite features including live game scoring, the official bracket, real-time game alerts for their favorite school, the Coke Zero NCAA March Madness Social Arena, the Boss Button presented by Buick and personal channel lineup features. Fans will also have direct access to live radio broadcasts, courtesy of Westwood One, for all 67 games across the collection of digital products.
For the NCAA Final Four® national semifinals on April 4 from Indianapolis, NCAA March Madness Live will provide three distinct live video streams of both games to provide unprecedented viewing options for fans – live streaming of the traditional game coverage provided on TBS, along with streams of the team-specific presentations offered via TNT and truTV. The national championship game will be broadcast Monday, April 6, on CBS.
NCAA March Madness Live Sponsors
Co-presenting sponsors for NCAA March Madness Live are NCAA Corporate Champions AT&T, Capital One and Coke Zero. Additionally, Buick, Capital One and Coke Zero will sponsor the NCAA March Madness Live App for iPhone and iPad, while AT&T, Capital One and Infiniti will sponsor the Android app. AT&T will also serve as presenting sponsor for the Windows app. Buick, Infiniti and LG Electronics are NCAA Corporate Partners.
About the NCAA
The NCAA is a membership-led nonprofit association of colleges and universities committed to supporting academic and athletic opportunities for more than 460,000 student-athletes at more than 1,000 member colleges and universities. Each year, more than 54,000 student-athletes compete in NCAA championships in Divisions I, II and III sports. Visit http://www.ncaa.org and http://www.ncaa.com for more details about the Association, its goals and members and corporate partnerships that help support programs for student-athletes. The NCAA is proud to have the following elite companies as official Corporate Champions—AT&T, Capital One and Coca-Cola—and the following elite companies as official Corporate Partners—Allstate, Amazon (Kindle), Buffalo Wild Wings, Buick, Burger King, Enterprise, Infiniti, LG, Lowe’s, Nabisco, Northwestern Mutual, Reese’s (Hershey’s), Unilever and UPS.About Turner Sports
Turner Sports, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., is an industry leader in the delivery of premium sports content across all multimedia screens. Turner Sports’ television coverage includes the NBA, Major League Baseball, NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship and professional golf. The company also manages some of the most popular sports destinations across broadband and mobile platforms including Bleacher Report and its top-rated Team Stream app, NCAA.com and the critically-acclaimed NCAA March Madness Live suite of products, PGA.com and the Sports Emmy Award-winning PGA Championship LIVE, as well as an accompanying collection of mobile sites and connected device apps. Turner Sports and the NBA also jointly manage NBA Digital, a robust collection of offerings including NBA TV, NBA.com, NBA LEAGUE PASS, NBA Mobile, the NBA Game Time App, NBADLEAGUE.com and WNBA.com.
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Twitter profiles on Android look much better now
Twitter’s mobile app has seen a fair bit of newness as of late, and its latest tweak brings the Android version’s profile pages in line with iOS’. What’s so different? Let’s start at the top. Header images and avatar photos have gotten a bump in size for starters, and, what’s more, the bio has its own bit of screen real-estate now instead of being a swipe to the left. Rather than only the three most recent tweets showing, now you can scroll through an infinite amount of a user’s 140-character updates too — same goes for photos and favorites.
Thankfully, this has streamlined profiles a ton and eliminates the need for lots of tapping to navigate. You can swipe right or left anywhere on your device’s display, for example, to move from tweets to photos to favorites, respectively, while the bio, avatar and header stay static. The simplicity is quite refreshing, to be honest. Compared to how the timeline itself has evolved (for better and for worse), it’d be surprising if this ruffles users’ feathers the way incessant ads for a certain mobile game has.
We’re rolling out new profiles on Twitter for Android: it’s now easier to view bios, Tweets and photos. https://t.co/MMnvuuHaxh
– Twitter (@twitter) March 10, 2015
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile
Source: Twitter (Twitter)
Nova Launcher receives huge Material Design overhaul and much more in latest beta
When talking about third party launchers on Android, one of the best out there is Nova Launcher. The application is constantly getting tweaks and new little improvements to make your Android experience even better. And if you’re a member of the Nova Launcher beta community on Google+, you should be receiving quite the update today. The developer has just pushed out a huge redesign to the beta channel, bringing tons of Material Design aesthetic changes, new animations, some under the hood changes, and much, much more. Without any further ado, let’s dive right in.
First up is the Material Design overhaul, which shows its biggest changes in the menus and settings panels. All menus feature an off-white background and red accents. Aside from the menus, long-pressing on a home screen will allow you to choose wallpapers, widgets and Google settings, just like in Android 5.0 Lollipop. The application drawer now also has a search bar, which can be accessed by pulling down anywhere in the drawer.
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If you don’t want to sign up for the beta channel, don’t worry. All of these changes will eventually make their way to the stable version, though it may take a few weeks to do so. To sign up for the beta channel, you need to join the Google+ community here, then head to this link to become a tester. After that, head to this Google Play Store link to update to the most recent beta version. Once you click “become a tester”, it may take a few minutes for your update to roll out through the Play Store.
Like I said earlier, there are a ton of changes in this update. The full changelog is listed below, for those interested.
- Full Material Design
- All settings screens and dialogs are material style
- More animations
- Google Search from the search bar shows as an overlay
- Edit Shortcut dialog, and quick menu, tinted based on colors of the icon
- New icon
- New Nova Action icons
- Rebased on top of Launcher3
- Individual icon layout settings (size, font, etc) in Desktop, Drawer, Dock, Folder
- Max icon size boosted to 150%
- Widget Search
- Pull to search (pull down in the drawer to open app or widget search)
- Widgets given their own drawer, removed from App Drawer
- Ability to change Page Indicator color
- Drawer Tab Bar completely optional
- Support for Android for Work managed profiles (Lollipop)
- Workaround Expand Notifications Nova Action not working on Samsung Lollipop
- Requires Android 4.1 or higher (Dropped support for Android 4.0 ICS)
- Unlimited desktop pages (previously limited to 9)
- Easy add/remove of desktop pages by dropping icons on the blank page, or removing all icons from a page
- Add blank desktop pages (for gestures or live wallpapers) from overview
- Improved bulk edit of folders (Folder > Menu > Select Apps)
- Added shadows to unread badges
- Unread Badge size scales with icon size
- Allow reordering drawer folders by drag/drop within window
- Added Roboto-Medium font option
- Improve handling of apps installed to sdcard
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High Apple Store Traffic Distorting Mall Rent, Lifting Mall Sales [Mac Blog]
Apple Stores’ ability to generate a high rate of foot traffic in malls is allowing Apple to win “sweetheart deals” from mall operators while increasing mall sales 10%, according to a new Wall Street Journal report.
Apple draws so many shoppers that its stores single-handedly lift sales by 10% at the malls in which they operate, according to Green Street Advisors, a real-estate research firm. That gives Apple the clout to negotiate extremely low rents for itself relative to its sales, while creating upward pressure on prices paid by mall neighbors who might not benefit from the traffic.
Mall operators usually strike deals with department stores that allow them to pay low common area fees and almost no rent in exchange for drawing traffic to the mall. Smaller non-department stores generate most of the rental fees collected by mall landlords, paying as much as 15% of their sales a square foot in rent.
Because Apple Stores bring in so much traffic that leads to increased sales in other parts of the mall, Apple has been able to win rental agreements that see it paying as little as 2% of its sales a square foot. Typically, rents paid to mall operators are based on how much the retailer expects to sell, which is influenced by overall mall traffic.
Average-grossing Apple Stores can garner $6,000 in sales a square foot, while higher grossing Apple Stores net $10,000 in sales a square foot, sources tell the WSJ. At 45 enclosed malls, Apple’s share of gross sales averaged 14% in 2013, up just over 10% from 2002.
While Apple’s success in retail affords it sweetheart deals, it also gains breaks in other forms of payment to mall landlords. For example, some landlords require tenants to pay additional rent if sales exceed a certain trigger. Apple doesn’t have to pay that additional rent, while its neighbors do.
Additionally, because of Apple’s influence on mall traffic, retailers have begun asking mall landlords to exclude Apple as an example at the negotiating table, largely because its success is an extreme case compared to other non-department store mall retailers.
HTC One E9 gets certified by TENAA for Chinese release
Due to its certification by TENAA, we know what HTC has coming to consumers in China. The HTC One E9, seen above, will be released in China with a plastic design while maintaining high-end specifications. TENAA, which is the equivalent to the United States’ FCC, included specifications with its certification. It revealed: 156.5×76.5×7.54mm measurements, a 5.5-inch display, and a 2800mAh battery. Allegedly, the display has 2560×1440 resolution and the processor inside is MediaTek’s MT6795.
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