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Samsung Galaxy S5 preorders start at AT&T on March 21 for $199.99, devices ship in ‘early April’

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by on March 20, 2014 at 4:25 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Mobile

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AT&T today announced pre-orders for the Samsung Galaxy S5 will begin tomorrow (March 21) at att.com and AT&T stores. The Galaxy S5 is priced at $199.99 with a two-year contract, $25 per month with AT&T Next 18, or $32.50 per month with AT&T Next 12. If you’d rather pay the full retail price, with no commitment, you’re look at a $649.99 price tag. Shipping for the pre-orders will begin in “early April” with no specific date given. AT&T also announced that it will offer pre-orders on the same day for the Samsung Gear 2, Samsung Gear 2 Neo, and Samsung…

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WillCall launches its last-minute ticket app for live shows in Los Angeles

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by on March 20, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

WillCall, the mobile app that makes it easy to find tickets to see live shows in NYC and San Francisco at the last minute, has now extended its reach to cover Los Angeles too. If you’re new to WillCall, here’s how it works. The folks behind the service select events in key locations then work with the various parties to arrange special prices or packages, then you receive a push notification directly to your smartphone and you can book directly through the app. It arrived first for San Francisco in early 2012, followed by New York in 2013. And now…

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Dark Energy Reservoir review: An 8,000mAh slimline battery pack for charging two devices at once

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by on March 20, 2014 at 2:53 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Product Reviews

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While modern smartphones, tablets and all kinds of other devices offer up a world of possibilities, they all require one thing – power. They mostly share a common trait too, they’re generally not that power-efficient and can burn through a full charge in what seems like no time at all – this is certainly true for a lot of the power-hungry high-end smartphones you can buy today. It’s no surprise then that there are a wealth of portable battery chargers (like the Satechi 10000 mAh or the Fluxmob) on the market promising to keep your devices fully juiced when you’re away from…

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Tribune’s new mobile app ‘reads’ you the news from online publications

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by on March 20, 2014 at 2:46 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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American media behemoth The Tribune Company (‘Tribune’) has launched an interesting new service that lets you audio-stream text-based stories from online newspapers. Newsbeat actually comes courtesy of Tribune Digital Ventures, the technology and innovation arm of Tribune that launched last May. The core raison d’être of Newsbeat is to “reimagine news for mobile”, using human voiceovers and text-to-speech technology. Available for Android and iOS, Newsbeat says it will stream up to seven thousand stories each day from across the Web. While it does have a US-centric content offering, it also serves up global news tidbits too, though you can’t indicate…

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Tumblr signs exclusive advertising deal with Viacom for the upfront season

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by on March 20, 2014 at 2:30 pm
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Viacom today struck an exclusive advertising partnership with Tumblr to serve “co-branded content campaigns” with its partners across the blogging platform during the upfront season. The deal will give Viacom the ability to publish a range of custom content promoting cable networks such as MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1, CMT, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV Land and Spike on Tumblr. It’ll kick off next month with the 2014 MTV Movie Awards, where Viacom plans to put up related images, videos, GIFs and other interactive content before, during and after the show. It’s the first advertising partnership that Tumblr has signed with a television programmer, and Viacom…

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