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EE’s Power Bar scheme lets you grab a new portable charger whenever you like

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by on April 1, 2015 at 11:01 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Mobile, Product Launches, UK

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With smartphone battery life a long lamented pain point of pretty much any smartphone from the last few years, EE has today launched a scheme aimed at ensuring its network customers remain fully-charged. The ‘Power to the People’ initiative will allow any currently active mobile and broadband customers to get hold of a free Power Bar portable charger by opting in via SMS. To qualify for the free charger, you need to be on a 30-day or 12 – 24 month plan for mobile, fixed line or broadband services. The company said that PAYG users can also participate, but that…

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N64 and Nintendo DS games available on Wii U Virtual Console from today

Apr01
by on April 1, 2015 at 10:22 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Nintendo has announced that it’s bringing Nintendo 64 and DS games to the Wii U via its virtual console service beginning today. The virtual game service will allow you to configure your Wii U controller to better match the layout of the N64 games or the DS. Some games will use the main TV screen for both screens and others will utilize both. The first N64 game to be available will be Super Mario 64 alongside Yoshi’s island for DS, starting today. In the near future, Mario will make available Donkey Kong 64, Mario Kart DS and Paper Mario as well.…

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Facebook’s Riff collaborative video app is a cool idea but still needs some polish

Apr01
by on April 1, 2015 at 9:44 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Launches, Social Media

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When you first download and log into Riff — Facebook’s brand new collaborative video app for iOS and Android — the first thing you see are featured Riffs from Facebook’s tiny collection. These are designed to let you visualize what you too can do with Riff. What you can do is somewhat along the lines of MixBit or Mela — that is, collaborate with others on an originally shot video. With Riff, the only people you can collaborate with are your friends on Facebook. When your friends view and add their own clips to your video, their friends will then see the video in Riff and…

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Imgur’s collaborative April Fools’ joke blindly matches your GIFs to other users’ captions

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by on April 1, 2015 at 8:32 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Imgur’s April Fools’ day joke is kind of amazing; it’s called Imgur Collaborative and allows users to create either a title, description or image for a post and be matched with a fellow user’s creations. The catch is that the titler/image uploader/description writer doesn’t know what they’re going to be combined with at all, so it’s a total lucky dip and the results are terrifying/hilarious/confusing/awful/great. I chose to be the image uploader and dropped in a great GIF I’d made from this “don’t copy that floppy” YouTube video. Once uploaded, you’ll need to wait a few seconds to be matched with the perfect…

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HBO is headed to Sling TV for $15/month, just in time for the ‘Game of Thrones’ premiere

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by on April 1, 2015 at 6:09 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Sling TV has announced that it will offer HBO as part of its streaming service this month. It is currently unspecified when HBO will go live, but the company said it will be available in time before the April 12 ‘Game of Thrones’ season 5 premiere. With HBO on Sling, viewers can access one live channel and the same video-on-demand offerings as other HBO outlets, such as HBO Go and the upcoming HBO Now on Apple TV. HBO will be available for $15 a month – that’s an extra fee on top of Sling’s $20 a month core package, which currently includes…

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