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White and red Blackberry Passports available for pre-order

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by on November 24, 2014 at 5:28 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Mobile

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The squarish Blackberry Passport is getting two new colors and if you’re still a fan of the Canadian company, you can pre-order either a white or red version of the company’s latest smartphone right now. You can pre-order either phone from Blackberry’s online store while supplies last. Both phones will be on sale starting Friday, November 28 in North America. Pre-ordered phones will start shipping today. As for fans in the rest of the world, BlackBerry says availability information “will be announced in the coming weeks.” ➤ BlackBerry Passport Unveiled in Red and White Colors – Available Now for Pre -Order

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CouponHunt: ProductHunt for coupons arrives just in time for Black Friday

Nov24
by on November 24, 2014 at 5:04 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, CouponHunt, Insider, Product Launches, ProductHunt

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Smartly riffing on the look and functionality of ProductHunt, CouponHunt is a crowd curated coupon site that’s arrived just in time for Black Friday. The site is a spinoff from another startup, LocalMint, which provides local store search in the US, UK, Ireland and Australia. The creators say they wanted to produce somewhere to crowd source coupons without complicating their existing product. It’s early days for CouponHunt but it has already pulled together deals from Macy’s, Target, Amazon and Best Buy. If it manages to draw in a large enough community of users it could end up being pretty useful for bargain…

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Delivery tracking service Slice snaps up email unsubscription service Unroll.me

Nov24
by on November 24, 2014 at 4:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

Slice, a company that provides delivery tracking by extracting information from email receipts, has today announced its purchase of Unroll.me‘s email unsubscription service. While terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, Slice said the acquisition was driven by a shared company goal: to ‘make email useful again’ and that it will be business as usual. “Unroll.Me’s 1.3 million ‘Rollers’ will experience no change in their service. We are keeping the team and they will continue to be based in their New York location. It is our hope and intention to retain and nurture the Unroll.Me talent and continue to grow the business,” a…

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I have 46 Thanksgiving dinners left with family. And then, I’ll be dead.

Nov24
by on November 24, 2014 at 4:08 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, LifeHacks, Lifestyle

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Ben Huh is the founder and CEO of The Cheezburger Network. This post originally appeared on Ben’s Medium blog. I’m not good at quantifying my life. Most of us aren’t. We don’t think of life as a finite resource that needs management, but it is. Life is finite and we keep using it up every second. Even the smartest people I know only have a vague sense of what’s left versus what’s been used in their lives. The Quantified Self movement of step trackers and sleep apps has gotten it backwards. The way to change our behavior isn’t to measure our…

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T-Mobile adds 14 new streaming services to its unlimited data ‘Music Freedom’ program

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by on November 24, 2014 at 3:50 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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This summer, T-Mobile began its ‘Music Freedom‘ program, which allows its subscribers to listen to an unlimited amount of music from popular streaming services without using up their plan’s data allotment. Today, T-Mobile is adding 14 new services to the fray. Most notable are Google Play Music, Xbox Music and SoundCloud, but there are several other more niche additions as well. From T-Mobile’s press release: Google Play Music− Winner of the popular vote among Un-carrier customers Xbox Music − ‘All the Music You Love’ on all your devices SoundCloud − Provides access to the world’s largest community of music & audio creators RadioTunes…

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