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iPhone 5: New iPhones are here, so where are the discounts? | Minion Blast

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IPhone 5: New iPhones are here, so where are the discounts? IPhone 5: New iPhones are here, so where are the discounts? In previous years, when a new iPhone debuted it occupied the top spot in Apple's lineup and knocked older generations down a single rung on the food chain. However, this time around, Apple opted to replace the devices holding the top two. Spots, dropping the iPhone 4S all the way down to a $0 price point, and. IPhone trade-in programs: Where to sell your old smart phone. AT&T has since ...

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Review: iPhone fingerprint sensor worth extra cost | Minion Blast

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Review: iPhone fingerprint sensor worth extra cost. Review: iPhone fingerprint sensor worth extra cost. CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) - Passcodes are such a pain that I've relaxed the security settings on my Android phone. I'm willing to forgo the extra safety, just so I'm asked to punch in the code less often. When I got my hands on Apple's new iPhone 5S, one of the first things I tried was a feature that allows you to bypass the passcode using a fingerprint. I will review iOS 7 separately. Many existing i...

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Facebook Joins Industry in Petitioning Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court | Minion Blast

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Facebook Joins Industry in Petitioning Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Facebook Joins Industry in Petitioning Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Over the last several months, in the midst of press reports speculating about the nature and scope of government programs aimed at keeping people safe, we’ve repeatedly called. Kind of U.S. government request in the past year. As we have said many times, we believe that while governments have an important responsibility to keep people safe, it is ...

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Brazil looks to break from US-centric Internet | Minion Blast

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Brazil looks to break from US-centric Internet. Brazil looks to break from US-centric Internet. RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Brazil plans to divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over Washington's widespread online spying, a move that many experts fear will be a potentially dangerous first step toward fracturing a global network built with minimal interference by governments. The global backlash is only beginning and will get far more severe in coming months," said Sascha Meinrath, director of the Open ...

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Zuckerberg’s Manifest Destiny: Connecting The 5 Billion People Without Internet | Minion Blast

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Zuckerberg’s Manifest Destiny: Connecting The 5 Billion People Without Internet. Zuckerberg’s Manifest Destiny: Connecting The 5 Billion People Without Internet. Facebook didn’t stop when it hit 1 billion users. And it won’t stop even if it connects everyone with web access. ”To make the world more open and connected” really means the world. Sure But that doesn’t make it the driving motive. The still-young CEO discussed how businesses break down into two categories. “There are companies that de...Creatin...

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Apple, Google, and Microsoft Need to Hear This | Minion Blast

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Apple, Google, and Microsoft Need to Hear This. Apple, Google, and Microsoft Need to Hear This. Noted research firm Gartner. Has answered the question of what users want in their devices, and Apple. Would be wise to listen up. Perhaps most intriguing, and the biggest takeaway for device manufacturers, was the change in consumers' buying habits from Gartner's 2011 end user survey. Two years ago, the No. 1 "purchasing criterion" was brand, and Apple dominated. In 2011, Apple sold over 40 millio...As of the...

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Review: New iOS software has features to discover | Minion Blast

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Review: New iOS software has features to discover. Review: New iOS software has features to discover. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) - The changes to Apple's iOS software became apparent as I drove to the headquarters of the company's rival, Google. As I navigated using Apple's mapping app, I noticed one of my favorite attributes was missing: the directions for each next turn presented in green boxes that resemble highway signs. I'm covering the features specific to Apple's new iPhone 5S and 5C in a separate...

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Facebook Focusing on Efficiency | Minion Blast

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Facebook Focusing on Efficiency. Facebook Focusing on Efficiency. In August 2013, Facebook and a coalition of other leading technology companies announced. The launch of Internet.org. A global effort to make affordable Internet access available to the next 5 billion people. As founding members of Internet.org, we believe it’s possible to build infrastructure that will sustainably provide free access to basic Internet services in a way that enables everyone with a phone to connect to the Internet. With th...

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McAfee declares Lily Collins the world's most dangerous celebrity | Minion Blast

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McAfee declares Lily Collins the world's most dangerous celebrity. McAfee declares Lily Collins the world's most dangerous celebrity. The daughter of musician Phil Collins already gets enough negative publicity for having the former Genesis frontman as a dad, but now she also has the dubious honor of topping the anti-virus firm's annual list of risky web searches. As Paula Greve, director of web security research at McAfee, explains: "Today's consumers often are completely unaware of security risks when ...

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Google's AdID to take a bite out of third-party cookies | Minion Blast

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Google's AdID to take a bite out of third-party cookies. Google's AdID to take a bite out of third-party cookies. Much the way Apple took the reins of advertising on iOS with iAd, Google has a plan to replace third-party advertiser-tracking cookies with a proprietary identifier called AdID. Google has a plan that might eliminate the third-party tracking cookie in favor of a proprietary tracker called AdID. The report said that Google is planning a push in the coming weeks and months to secure backing fro...