Kyle Wagner

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Windows 8 App Store Images Surface, Look About Right (Updated)

Late to—but not quite out of—the app store game, Microsoft finally has a dog in the fight: images have surfaced of the Windows 8 App Store, the company’s challenger to Apple’s Mac app emporium. Microsoft’s decision to use the phrase “App Store” is predictable, given its insistence that Apple’s “App Store” trademark is too generic, … Continued

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Verizon Axes One-Year Plan, Set to Add $50 Unlimited Talk/Text Plan

The Network giveth and The Network hath taken away. Verizon has announced that it is eliminating its semi-popular one-year contract option, explaining that most customers sign two-year contracts and the options for month-to-month and prepaid accounts remain. Separately, but perhaps not altogether unrelated, Droid Life dug up what appears to be promotional material for a … Continued

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Score a Motorola Atrix for $49.99 This Weekend on AmazonWireless

AT&T’s 4G network hasn’t gotten the best coverage lately, but all that is scheduled to change any day now, so you may as well jump on board! AmazonWireless is offering the soon-to-be-maybe-we-hope-fully-4G Motorola Atrix—which we liked a lot as a phone, not so much as a netbook—for $49.99 this weekend with a new contract, a … Continued

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USB 3.0, Thunderbolt Possible in Future iOS 30-Pin Connectors

For those of you wondering how Apple is planning on supporting next-generation high-speed data port technology for future (and current) iPads, Pods and Phones, you might have your answer. Patently Apple has unearthed a 2009 Apple patent for a Hybrid DisplayPort/USB 3.0 Adapter. And since Thunderbolt, the zippy new transfer technology developed by Intel and … Continued