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Amazon says Prime Day was bigger than its biggest Black Friday

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by on July 16, 2015 at 5:06 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Despite widespread disappointment, Amazon says Prime Day was bigger than its biggest Black Friday. According to Amazon, the made-up holiday was the largest device sales day the company has ever had with 398 items ordered every second in Prime-eligible countries – that’s 34.4 million products. Some of the biggest sellers on the day in the US were Amazon’s Fire TV sticks, the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy boxsets, televisions (unspecified which brands), Bose Headphones and ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ on Blu-ray. Outside the US, the big sellers were slightly less impressive products like diapers, Crocs and Monopoly. However, while Amazon…

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XPRS wants you to have fun building an awesome website using Polydoms

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by on July 16, 2015 at 4:26 pm
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A lot goes into building and designing a website, and it’s often tedious work. A new service, XPRS, wants to make the process fun, and has reimagined how we push content onto websites with a series of building blocks it calls Polydoms. Often, a website uses WordPress as its Content Management System (CMS). To get the most out of WordPress, you’ll need some programming know-how. If you don’t know how to code, WordPress is still good as a simple blogging tool, but that’s about it. XPRS is attempting to take the simple ethos WordPress has and make it scalable, even for mobile…

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Ilumi steps up its lighting game with new bulbs and Kickstarter campaign

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by on July 16, 2015 at 4:00 pm
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Ilumi isn’t new to the LED lighting scene, but they’re back on Kickstarter. This time, the team has a redesigned set of bulbs that work with a new app, and affordability may be the main pull. For $29, you can grab a standard 60W Ilumi bulb via Kickstarter; the 85W floodlight will cost $35. Previously, Ilumi bulbs cost $89.98 and $99.98, respectively. The pricing will put Ilumi in the conversation with Philips Hue, but the redesigned app may position it ahead of the pack. In addition to being able to customize which shade of light the bulb emits via a color wheel, you can…

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Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and more are coming to your SwiftKey keyboard

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by on July 16, 2015 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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To celebrate Sony Pictures’ new movie – Pixels – SwiftKey has revealed five new themes inspired by the retro gaming characters from the movie. The themes are free to download for all Android users from today and feature old school favourites like Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Q8bert, Centipede and Space Invader. Unfortunately, SwiftKey hasn’t made these available on iOS. You can download them individually or as a pack. ➤ SwiftKey [Android | iOS] Read next: Memoji Keyboard lets you send emojis of yourself

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Apple and Samsung are reportedly gearing up to get rid of the traditional SIM card

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by on July 16, 2015 at 3:54 pm
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Apple and Samsung – along with several others in the telecoms industry – might be gearing up to get rid of the need for a traditional user-swappable SIM card. According to the Financial Times, the two companies are working with the GSMA – the association that runs the GSM telephone system used by T-Mobile, AT&T in the US and most carriers worldwide – to implement an E-SIM (embedded SIM) card. Whereas a traditional SIM card associates you with specific networks, an E-SIM would allow a device to switch between carriers instantly. As the name implies, however, this chip wouldn’t be…

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