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July 1, 2016
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Amazon Alexa Echo Shopping Update

Alexa will now let you order over a million items from Amazon with your voice

By on July 1, 2016 at 4:17 PM.

Alexa will now let you order over a million items from Amazon with your voice

Amazon kicked the home virtual assistant trend into overdrive a year ago when it launched the first Echo. Since then, Alexa—the voice service powering the device—has become increasingly intelligent as the company gives it new skills.

It’s latest skill is possibly its latest surprising, as Amazon has now given Alexa the ability to order over a million new products from Amazon, even if the customer has never ordered that product before.

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June 30, 2016
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Spotify Vs Apple

Spotify is furious at Apple because it’s not a non-profit

By on June 30, 2016 at 2:54 PM.

Spotify is furious at Apple because it’s not a non-profit

There’s a big problem with building a business on the back of other companies’ businesses: You have to play by their rules.

There are countless examples of companies losing their cool when a free ride comes to an end. Twitter is an example that instantly comes to mind. Developers spent so long building apps and services utilizing free access to Twitter’s APIs and its users’ data. They made money — a whole lot of money — with these services and paid nothing to Twitter as they did. Then, when Twitter made some changes to its model that impacted many developers’ products, they flipped.

Fast forward to this week, when Spotify’s general counsel sent a letter to Apple’s lawyers, basically slamming the company for not giving Spotify a free ride while it pulls in millions in fees from iPhone and iPad users. More →

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June 29, 2016
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Walmart ShippingPass

Walmart’s Amazon Prime competitor is here, and you can try it for free

By on June 29, 2016 at 8:00 PM.

Walmart’s Amazon Prime competitor is here, and you can try it for free

Walmart has been trialing a rival service to the free shipping part of Amazon Prime for a while, but ShippingPass is finally ready for prime time.

The service costs $49 a year, in return for which you get unlimited free two-day shipping. It’s half the price of Amazon’s $99 a year Prime, but it also doesn’t come with all the bells, whistles, and free streaming services that Prime members get access to.

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June 28, 2016
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Google Garage Workshop Tour

Inside ‘The Garage’, a collaborative workshop for every Google employee

By on June 28, 2016 at 6:30 PM.

Inside ‘The Garage’, a collaborative workshop for every Google employee

Working at Google might not be all fun and games, as several former employees explained in a Quora thread earlier this year, but there’s no question that the perks offered by the company are virtually unrivaled in the industry.

One of the coolest perks for creative Googlers who want to express themselves has to be The Garage — a collaborative workshop through which Business Insider was lucky enough to take a tour earlier this month.

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June 28, 2016
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Apple Lawsuit

Behold, the most ambitious Apple lawsuit ever

By on June 28, 2016 at 5:15 PM.

Behold, the most ambitious Apple lawsuit ever

As you’d expect from the world’s largest seller of consumer electronics, Apple gets sued a lot. Some of those suits go places, others get dismissed out of hand the first time they get to court.

And then there’s Florida.

MacRumors has spotted a gem of a lawsuit filed by Thomas S. Ross, a Floridian who feels that Apple’s iPhone infringes on the sketches he made of an “Electronic Reading Device” in 1992.

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June 23, 2016
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Android Vs iOS

Google’s two biggest partners are both working toward ditching Android

By on June 23, 2016 at 10:23 AM.

Google’s two biggest partners are both working toward ditching Android

Today, Google’s Android platform and Apple’s iOS platform dominate the mobile landscape. It’s difficult to imagine that ever changing considering how far behind other platforms are at this point, but people said the same thing more than a decade ago when operating systems like Symbian and Windows Mobile ruled the world. Things change and what goes up must come down. What’s interesting, however, is that major Android vendors are already starting to prepare for life after Android despite the platform’s strong position at the moment. More →

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June 22, 2016
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iPhone 7 Rumors

Why the boring iPhone 7 is the smartest thing Apple has done in years

By on June 22, 2016 at 10:38 AM.

Why the boring iPhone 7 is the smartest thing Apple has done in years

Apple’s top brass have lost their minds. Tim Cook is running Apple into the ground. The iPhone 7 is going to be boring and awful, and kittens may die as a result.

The smoke has cleared and the dust has settled following a series of reports on Tuesday covering Apple’s upcoming new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Pro, or whatever they end up being called. The reports, which were almost certainly planted by Apple’s PR team, made it clear that the new iPhones launching this year will not be major updates. Instead, they’ll be minor updates just as we’ve seen in leaks. It looks like the photo that seemingly gave us our first look at a real iPhone 7 was indeed likely genuine.

Apple shares dipped on the news before quickly recovering and then actually gaining, but the internet wasn’t quite as forgiving. In fact, bloggers where whinier than ever on Tuesday when covering this year’s upcoming iPhones. Should they be angry, or is all this complaining totally off base? More →

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June 20, 2016
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Elon Musk Job Interview Questions

This is what it was like to have a job interview with Elon Musk

By on June 20, 2016 at 9:00 PM.

This is what it was like to have a job interview with Elon Musk

Elon Musk is one of the few people in the world with the vision and the resources to help shape our future. It sounds like a cliche, but it’s true. Musk’s Tesla business has already had a profound impact on the automobile industry, jump starting the electric car market and pushing the pace of electric car proliferation years ahead of where it would otherwise be. His company SpaceX now plays a huge role in space missions, and the Hyperloop rail system he dreamt up could end up changing the way we travel yet again.

Can you imagine what it might be like to interview with Musk? More →

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June 20, 2016
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5G Explained

5G is coming: everything you need to know

By on June 20, 2016 at 6:50 PM.

5G is coming: everything you need to know

Even though I’m still fighting to get 4G cell coverage at home, the industry is already looking to the Next Big Thing: 5G. The FCC will be meeting next month to vote on new regulations for 5G, laying the groundwork for the next evolution in wireless communications.

5G is meant to be about more than just faster Netflix videos when you’re on the train. It’s going to be the mobile network to link the long-promised Internet of Things, making autonomous cars talk to each other, and your fridge tweet your feelings non-stop.

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June 20, 2016
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Netflix Price Increase

Netflix expected to make $500 million more per year after jacking up prices

By on June 20, 2016 at 5:35 PM.

Netflix expected to make $500 million more per year after jacking up prices

One or two extra dollars a month might not sound like much, but when you have nearly 100 million subscribers paying for your service, it adds up quickly.

Earlier this year, Netflix revealed that all of its standard subscribers would have their monthly fees raised to $9.99 to match that of new subscribers joining the service. The price hike began rolling out in May, will continue throughout the year, and is likely to make Netflix hundreds of millions of dollars.

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June 20, 2016
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iPhone 6s Amazon Scam

This crazy iPhone 6s scam on Amazon isn’t what you think

By on June 20, 2016 at 3:15 PM.

This crazy iPhone 6s scam on Amazon isn’t what you think

Check out these one-star reviews on Amazon for an unlocked 128GB iPhone 6s. Can you imagine how angry you would be if that happened to you? You shell out more than $900 for an unlocked, contract-free iPhone 6s and instead of receiving a shiny new phone in the mail, you get a box full of clay. How could Amazon let this happen? Well, it appears as though the weight of the clay is about the same as the iPhone that would have been in the box, and a fake bar code covered the real one on the packaging. Then the seller makes off with your cash and you’re left trying to shove your SIM card into a lump of clay.

This definitely sounds like one of the crazier scams we’ve seen on Amazon — but it’s even crazier than you think because nothing is what it seems. More →

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June 20, 2016
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Trump Apple Republican Convention

Apple reportedly boycotts GOP convention because of Trump

By on June 20, 2016 at 8:20 AM.

Apple reportedly boycotts GOP convention because of Trump

Remember when Donald Trump asked people to boycott Apple for refusing to help the FBI unlock the San Bernardino shooting (but then kept using his iPhone anyway)? Well, now it appears Apple is ready to boycott the Republican party’s GOP convention over Trump. More →

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June 16, 2016
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T-Mobile Tuesdays Dominos

T-Mobile gave away so much free pizza it broke Domino’s

By on June 16, 2016 at 1:06 PM.

T-Mobile gave away so much free pizza it broke Domino’s

T-Mobile Tuesdays is a brand-new freebie program that the company unveiled last week amid much fanfare and swearing. It’s a simple idea: every week, T-Mobile customers get freebies, like free movie tickets or a free pizza.

Only, it appears that so many people wanted free Domino’s — even on a Tuesday night — that it overwhelmed the world’s largest pizza chain. Oops.

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