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American carrier AT&T is planning on eliminating its $10 a month messaging (a thousand text messages) come this Sunday. Instead, they’re forcing pricier plans upon new iPhone customers. In their vocabulary, it’s only a “streamlining”, a spokesperson for AT&T told Engadget: It is obvious the new plans work towards milking iPhone customers for extra profits. Let’s not forget they in January AT&T had also killed $5 and $15 messaging plans. Additionally, their pay-per-message options are clearly overpriced at twenty cents for a text message and thirty cents for a media-rich MMS....

AirPods Pro arrived this week and early reviews are positive. But what about a review from an audiophile diving into sound quality, noise cancellation, and more? YouTuber Quinn Nelson has shared a review from the audiophile perspective on his channel Snazzy Labs. He’s got a great dive into the pros and cons of AirPods Pro and he won’t be totally ditching his wired headphones but he believes they are the “best wireless earbuds on the market....

Apple and other technology companies will soon have to answer the Australian Parliament as to why content from iTunes costs more for Australian consumers than United States consumers. The Sydney Morning Herald reported the Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy has now signed off on a parliamentary inquiry that will carry out sometime this year by the standing committee on infrastructure and communications from the House of Representatives. The report noted the inquiry could extend to eBooks if evidence of price increases for Australian consumers comes to light....

George Bluth is the head of the Bluth family in Arrested Development. He’s also the character that begins the series, as he is arrested as his final days in the family business approaches. George is untrustworthy and a criminal throughout all the series of the show. He’s done some pretty terrible things throughout the series that have hurt both the business and his family. However, everything he does seems to be at the very least, in the financial interests of his family....

We knew it was coming. Yesterday we gave you the first glimpse at Facebook’s new “Facebook Home” platform for Android, and today the company officially unveiled the new experience set to land alongside the first device to officially come with the platform preinstalled— the HTC First. The HTC First, scheduled to hit AT&T on April 12 for $99 with pre-orders starting today, will be the first device available to purchase with Facebook Home, but Facebook made a point of noting its master plan is to get Home in the hands of as many of its users as possible....

This finding was published in the corporate regulator’s latest report [PDF], which compiled trends from self-assessment surveys completed by financial markets firms. The report, titled Cyber resilience of firms in Australia’s financial markets: 2020–21, is an update to a similar cyber resilience report published by ASIC two years ago. In both 2020 and 2021, ASIC asked participants to reassess their cyber resilience against the National Institute of Standards in Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework....

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_JRZI9o49w] Apple’s long term carrier parter AT&T has announced that they have processed 200,000 pre-orders for the iPhone 4S, making the new Apple smartphone the most successfully launched iPhone yet. These 200,000 orders only come during the first 12 hours of sales, which started around midnight. Notably, these are just AT&T’s numbers and don’t include Apple’s own online pre-orders or the orders through Apple’s other U.S. carrier partners, Verizon Wireless and Sprint....

Of the amazing cast of characters that Avatar: The Last Airbender put forth, Uncle Iroh is one of the most interesting. He serves not only as the archetype of the supremely wise, bearded old man, but also as a form of consistent comic relief, and one of the greatest warriors of his time. He is a true master, a master of strategy, of war, of bending, and of life. As the seasons progressed, revelations about his past, as well as his secretive dealings with strange organizations, added immensely to the complexity of Zuko’s mentor, guide, and teacher, the only man who could truly fill the father role that Prince Zuko was so clearly in need of....

One fan took their Avengers: Endgame paranoia too far this weekend, attacking a co-worker for sharing details about the new movie. Hype surrounding the film has been rising for months, finally culminating in its release this past weekend. Endgame marks the epic conclusion of the twenty-two movies that represent “The Infinity Saga,” a series that began way back in 2008 with Iron Man. It’s also an ending of sorts for the six original Avengers: Iron Man, Captain America, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Thor, and the Hulk....

Gob is one of the more unreliable and unpredictable members of the Bluth family from Arrested Development. He certainly isn’t intelligent, although he does have a lot of heart. Unfortunately, his selfish attitude, coupled with his naivety has meant that he’s been in a number of unfortunate situations. Whether he’s inflicting some kind of torment on his family and friends, by accident of course, or whether he’s managed to get himself into a difficult moment that he needs saving from, Gob Bluth is a walking disaster....

Upcoming support of the HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding ) codec in macOS High Sierra and iOS 11 will help to improve file efficiency of high quality video files. With an added emphasis on high quality 4K content in upcoming Apple hardware and software, the deployment of such technology is occurring at an ideal time. Already users running the beta version of macOS High Sierra are taking advantage of HEVC encoding (also known as H....

Asus Zenfone 9 was launched globally powering Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC and features a 5.9-inch display with a 120Hz refresh rate, a dual rear camera setup with a 50-megapixel Sony IMX766 primary sensor, a 4,300mAh battery, and a near-stock Android experience with Android 12. Today we have the latest firmware flash file for the Asus Zenfone 9 AI2202 powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processor. To install the firmware flash file, we need a software called the QFil Flash tool which can be helpful to flash the stock ROM on your device....

AT&T announced in a press release today that last night’s iPhone 6 and 6 Plus preorders had set a new record for iPhone sales. As usually happens when a new Apple device goes on sale, the carrier’s backend was so overwhelmed with incoming orders that in stopped responding for most customers, forcing Apple to move to a reservation system that waited several hours until the carrier systems were available before completing many orders....

We had an inclination that it was coming, especially when the AT&T and T-Mobile merger was withdrawn from the FCC, but AT&T just confirmed in a press release that it agreed to kill the $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA announced in March. The result of the decision is AT&T both paying the agreed to $4 billion pretax charge by Q4 2011, as well as entering “a mutually beneficial roaming agreement with Deutsche Telekom”....

A deleted scene from Avengers: Endgame supports the theory that Thanos is actually still alive. Marvel Studios has celebrated the launch of Disney+ with the release of a number of key deleted scenes for Avengers: Endgame. They included an alternate version of Black Widow’s death, and of course the much-anticipated Soul World scene featuring Tony Stark and his daughter, Morgan. One of the more interesting deleted scenes is an alternate version of the Hulk’s conversation with the Ancient One....

Director Joe Russo has revealed what led to the inclusion of Howard the Duck in Avengers: Endgame. The film is of course the latest big screen release from Marvel, serving as the culmination of the last decade of movies that began with 2008’s Iron Man. With the world is mourning for all those lost as a result of Thanos’ infamous snap, the remaining heroes decide to try and undo the devastation…whatever it takes....

Avengers: Endgame wasted Hawkeye’s Ronin story. Marvel’s most famous archer was entirely absent from Avengers: Infinity War, largely because he was still under house arrest having signed a plea deal after the events of Captain America: Civil War. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige claimed that was a great move, and promised that Marvel had big plans for Hawkeye. On the surface, Avengers: Endgame seems to fulfill Feige’s promise. The plot of Avengers: Endgame focused in on the original six Avengers, with each member of the team given their own distinctive character arc....

If history repeats itself, UK-based ARM Holdings is hoping that the rise of the tablets will help grow its business substantially and catapult them to the mobile PC market dominance by 2015. MacWorld UK quoted their president Tudor Brown who said during a presser at the Computex trade show in Taipei: The quote is interesting because we’ve learned for the first time about ARM’s market share in the greater mobile PC market, which is comprised of tablets, netbooks and other mobile PCs....

Batman’s disappearance is one of the greatest mysteries of The CW’s Arrowverse, and especially the Batwoman TV series - could he have vanished because he refused to give up looking for Beth Kane? The new Batwoman series began with Kate Kane returning to Gotham, learning that the city had fallen on hard times since Batman disappeared three years ago. It’s gradually becoming clear that Batman had been active in Gotham for at least a decade, and had proved to be the city’s greatest defender against the tide of madness symbolized by the inmates of Arkham Asylum....

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