Apple has announced today that they are now selling a SIM-free and unlocked iPhone 5s through their U.S. online store. The new version of the iPhone 5s does not ship with a SIM at all, which means that you can insert one with a GSM-compatible operator of your choosing. The unlocked and SIM-free iPhone 5s costs $649 for the 16GB model.
[Source: GigaOM]
LG has apologized to customers when admitting that they have collected data on viewing habits of the user without him or her knowing. Jason Huntley discovered the smart TV spying issue and wrote about it on his blog after noticing that his LG Smart TV sending him targeted ads on the Smart landing screen.
Earlier this week, The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) changed their guidelines on how car companies reference safety ratings. The NHTSA said that companies may no longer refer to safety ratings with decimal points or ratings above five stars.
Snapchat founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy are being sued by ousted co-founder Reggie Brown. Spiegel acknowledged that Brown came up with the idea behind Snapchat, but he ultimately decided that Brown could not handle being a co-founder of the company. Spiegel, Murphy, and Brown were all connected through the Kappa Sigma fraternity at Stanford University.
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Just in time for the holiday season, Amazon has launched a new feature that allows users to give Amazon Prime as a gift. Amazon Prime costs $79 for a one-year membership. Recipients will receive an e-mail on the day that the giver’s choose with instructions on how to set up the gift. Amazon Prime includes unlimited streaming of Prime Instant Video, one Kindle Book each month from the Owners’ Lending Library, Kindle First, and two-day shipping.
[Source: Amazon PR]
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Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said that the social network does not have a problem with teenagers. In Facebook’s last earnings call, Facebook CFO David Ebersman said that the company saw a decrease in daily users, “specifically among younger teens.”
MediaFire is a file hosting service that has launched an application that works similar to the one Dropbox created. The application, known as MediaFire Desktop, has been launched for OS X and Windows. The software lets users upload files directly from their desktop to the cloud and can be shared with other people.
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation and Stephen Wolfram have announced that they are releasing a bundle of the Wolfram Language and Mathematica for the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi is a single-board computer that was developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of teaching basic computer science in schools.
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