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11 of the best smartphones that launched in 2014

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by on December 30, 2014 at 11:42 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Roundups

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With the beginning of 2015 just days away, it’s time to look back at some of the best smartphones released this year – and there’s quite a list to choose from. What follows are some of the biggest (in more ways than one) devices to be released in 2014, in no particular order. A lot will be familiar; 2014 was the year of incremental upgrades for many device makers, like Samsung and HTC. HTC One (M8) Back in March, HTC lifted the lid on its heavily leaked HTC One M8 smartphone, the successor to the well-liked original HTC One (M7). It brought an upgraded 2.3GHz…

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Twitter is experimenting with selling ad space in your Following list

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by on December 30, 2014 at 9:08 am
Posted In: Around the Web

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It appears that Twitter is experimenting with selling ad space in users’ lists of accounts they follow, reports Marketing Land. Actor William Shatner made a noise about it a little while ago, tweeting that he noticed that MasterCard’s account began showing up on his own Following list, even though he didn’t actually follow the credit card company on Twitter. .@jack @safety Why am I following MasterCard when I didn't add them? I do not appreciate this. pic.twitter.com/k91D6vTaXZ — William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) December 30, 2014 Shatner also mentioned that fellow actor Dwayne Johnson’s Following list included MasterCard — even though Johnson only…

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