Mellisa Tolentino
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Mojang Pens Deal With Egmont to Publish Minecraft Books, Manuals
Minecraft fans will surely rejoice with this bit of information: official books about the game are coming out soon. If you have no clue as to what Minecraft is, it is a game in which your primary goal is build anything you like using blocks and stay clear of the monsters that comes out at ...
Where’s the Cheapest iPhone 5? T-Mobile vs. Walmart, AT&T
T-Mobile is the talk of the town this week, thanks to its freshly unveiled UnCarrier plan and the fact that it’s finally getting the iPhone 5 and other older iPhones. People are claiming that T-Mobile offers the cheapest deal one can ever find for an iPhone 5, but is it really the cheapest? Let’s find ...
Flipboard Update Lets Users Create + Share Magazines
In today’s mobile and social roundup: Flipboard now lets you share your magazines; Microsoft secures patents for Surface keyboard; Amazon adds X-Ray feature to TV shows on Kindle Fire; and Yahoo to acquire Dailymotion. Flipboard now lets you share your magazines Since Google’s announcement of Google Reader’s demise, the world’s been looking for a replacement. ...
How to Become the Next Nick D’Aloisio, Summly’s Famous Teen Coder
There’s a lot of hype going around Nick D’Aloisio, the teen behind the coveted iPhone app Summly, recently snagged by Yahoo! for $30 million. Before D’Aloisio’s arrival, the spotlight was on Brian Wong, the teen creator of Kiip, an app add-on that transforms game achievements into real-life rewards. Everyone loves a wonder kid success story, ...
T-Mobile Finally Gets the iPhone 5, Trashes AT&T
Even before the UnCarrier event, T-Mobile had already released its new plans for subscribers. It ditched the two-year contract and introduced flexible data plans which starts at $50 for 500 MB of 4G data. So what did T-Mobile reveal at the event? iPhone 5 and other devices coming . T-Mobile is finally getting the iPhone ...
Summly Already Gone from iTunes : Here’s 3 Alternatives
Yahoo! acquired Summly this week, an iPhone app that delivers news fast, easily and beautifully by providing users with concise summaries of online content. According to reports, the acquisition totaled to $30 million, which involves the Summly team moving in with Yahoo as the app will be abolished and the algorithm used by Summly incorporated in ...
3 Tips to Enjoy Quora’s New Full-text Search
Quora, the question and answer service that lets you post questions or answer questions, rolled out a new feature last week that enables people to perform full-text search, much like what users are doing on Google Search. Quora users are no longer confined to searching only keywords, enabling users to query full questions. Also, if ...
T-Mobile’s New iPhone Will Cost You More : Uncarrier Plan Has a Big Catch
In today’s mobile news roundup: T-Mobile phones will now cost more; Summly team only staying for 18 months at Yahoo!; Facebook adds reply to comment feature; and Apple’s new iPhone promo. T-Mobile phones will now cost more T-Mobile announced it’s UnCarrier plans, which abolished the two-year contracts that allowed the company to sell phones at affordable prices. ...
Google Glass Hits a Speed Bump in West Virginia
Google Glass has yet to hit the market but people are already lobbying against it. Earlier in March, the 5 Point Cafe in Seattle declared that Google Glass will not be allowed in the premises to protect the identity if their patrons. Now, West Virginia is trying to pass a bill (H.B. 3057) that would ...
Only The Walking Dead Can Help Spotify Compete with Netflix
Spotify is said to be entering the video streaming service arena, which will put it head-to-head with Netflix – all in the hopes of someday becoming something as big as HBO. Spotify is a cloud music service that lets people listen to the tunes they want, when they want it, for a fee or with ...