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Luno Software Delivers, Again: NFL Scores & Alerts

I have been using Pro Sports Scores, the best “nearly” real time sports app available for Windows Phone, updating a graphic Live Tile every 10 to 60 seconds (your choice), since it was released in early 2011. Now, Luno Software has added another great app to their collection; NFL Scores & Alerts. The app has [...]

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Nine Simple Truths About Your Windows Phone Battery

I started my series of battery drain tests after reading countless theories and rumors about why our batteries lose juice. Don’t think I have solved every mystery, but I did separate truth from fiction in several areas. My BDOD (Battery Drain Obsessive Disorder) started back with my  Palm II. I still remember the panic that [...]

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What really happens if you ask Siri to remind you to put the gazpacho on ice

See, Apple wasn’t expecting you to actually try to do the things in their commercials. That would be insane. But that’s exactly what Paul Kafasis did. So he asked Siri to remind him to put the gazpacho on ice in an hour. The results? Put the spot show on ice Put the spots on Icenhour [...]

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Smoked By a Windows Phone: 98% Success Rate, 50k Contests, 100m Views

The Smoked by a Windows Phone campaign seems to have been quite a success based on the numbers. Even if you thought it was a gimmick, it got people’s attention and showed what the phone can do. Microsoft has some stats to share about it: 8,000,000+ The total number of views of Smoked by Windows [...]

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Intel HD Graphics Windows* 8 Driver Now Available for Download

Intel is already working on W8 drivers: Intel beta graphics drivers for the Microsoft Windows 8 Consumer Preview are now available to support 3rd generation Intel® Core™ processors with HD Graphics 4000/2500 and 2nd generation Intel Core processors with Intel HD Graphics 3000/2000. The 32-bit and 64-bit drivers provide support for Windows Display Driver Model [...]

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It’s official: Xbox 360 4GB Console with Kinect for Only $99 with New 2 Year Xbox LIVE Gold Contract at $14.99/month

The only caveat (for now) is that you need to buy it from a Microsoft Store…that’s probably $200 in gas for most of us. Here’s the early termination fee schedule: Great promotion. Now sell it in Best Buy like that. Here’s the link.

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Kinect Star Wars (Demo) now available for download

Kinect Star Wars was released to mixed reviews (but it does have 4 stars from users). Well now you can download the demo to try before you buy. Here’s the link.

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Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition is coming to Xbox LIVE Arcade this Wednesday

The title pretty much says it all. Here’s the link to Marketplace for it.

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call of duty black ops II available for preorder

It may not be shipping until November 13 but you can sign up now and be among the first to get it for $60. Apparently it’s pre-orders are record setting already. Here’s the link to Amazon.

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XPS 13 Ultrabook Now Comes With a TMo Hotspot and 6 Months Service While Supplies Last

Dell’s XPS 13 Ultrabook is a hot commodity and they’re sweetening the deal by throwing in a T-Mobile 4G hotspot with 6 months of free service (no contract required).  They state that this is an exclusive for Twitter followers. Here’s the link.

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