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Microsoft announces 35 new apps coming to Xbox One, including Twitter and the first Vine app for TV

Jun04
by on June 4, 2014 at 3:17 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider

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Microsoft today announced 46 new apps coming to its Xbox platform. The company says this will increase apps on its gaming platform by 25 percent, bringing the total to over 225 apps around the world. The timing of the news should surprise no one: the June update started rolling out last night, and it drops the Gold subscription requirement for apps. If you’re going to announce a slew of new apps, you might as well wait until everyone can use them. The full list of apps is as follows (35 are for the Xbox One and 11 are just for…

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LinkedIn revamps Premium Accounts to help paid profiles stand out from the crowd, adds $9.99/month subscription

Jun04
by on June 4, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Social Media

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LinkedIn today revamped its Premium Accounts with new features aimed at help paying members stand out from those using the free service. They all focus on the profile, including a custom background option that the company says will be available to all members “in a few months.” First up, LinkedIn Premium now offers a larger photo and expanded profile header, early access to a new custom profile background and an “exclusive” gallery of background images. Free members can request to one of the first to take the feature for a spin by clicking here. Next, LinkedIn Premium can now help…

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DreamIt Ventures’ Slidebean hopes to be Instagram for presentations

Jun04
by on June 4, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Latin America, Product Launches, Profiles and Interviews

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Slidebean‘s Web-based presentation app is now available to all, the company announced today. As its name suggests, its product is a slideshow creation tool, described by its founders as ‘Instagram for presentations.’ You may be tired of what has become a startup cliché but in this case, the X for Y description is quite meaningful. Just like Instagram’s filters make you pictures look neat in seconds, Slidebean offers design templates that help anyone create good-looking presentations. According to the startup, its goal is to let users focus on content, and take care of the rest on their behalf, enabling them…

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Google Drive down for you? You’re not the only one.

Jun04
by on June 4, 2014 at 2:56 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

Update: Google Drive should be up and working for most people now. If you’re having trouble accessing all your documents on Google Drive just now, well, you’re not the only one. According to Is it Down Right Now?, the Google Docs portal has been offline for more than an hour, though judging by the normally-reliable comments on Twitter, that might be closer to 30 minutes. At any rate, Google’s own app status machine confirms that disruption is afoot, and we’ve reached out to Google to see what’s up with its giant hard-drive in the sky. For now, its status says:…

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Sony’s new SmartBand SWR10 fitness tracker is now available in the US for $99.99

Jun04
by on June 4, 2014 at 2:46 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets

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At long last, Sony’s new SmartBand SWR10 activity tracker is available in the US. You can pick it up from the company’s website or through its retail stores for $99.99 starting today. Each unit comes with a removable white “Core” and two adjustable black wristbands, although Sony has shown some brighter options in the past that you can swap out. The device was announced at the last CES trade show and slated for a March release after Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but clearly that date was eventually pushed back for the US. The SmartBand SWR10 is compatible with devices…

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