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The HTC One max was officially announced to the world earlier this week (in fact, it was just yesterday morning that the larger sized version of the HTC One hit the news wires officially), right after we have seen a fair amount of leaks and alleged hardware specifications roll out just days or weeks before that. Well, Sprint has already stepped forward to say that they will offer the HTC One max smartphone before the year is over.

David Owens, head of Product, Sprint, had this to say about the HTC One max, “Over the years, Sprint has teamed up with HTC to bring our customers some of the most innovative devices in smartphone history. I am pleased to see our relationship continue to grow as we launch the newest addition to the HTC One family, HTC One max. With the dynamic features available on this device, we know customers will be enjoying heavy amounts of data. Sprint customers will have the peace of mind of not having to worry about data caps or overage charges. While other wireless providers move away from unlimited service, Sprint stands behind its commitment with Sprint Unlimited Guarantee, allowing our customers to lock-in unlimited talk, text and data, while on the Sprint network, not for just the next two years, but for the life of the line of service.”

I guess that’s that then – if you are on Sprint and your contract is about to be up, perhaps it is time you took a look at what the HTC One max has to offer if you want to make the jump to a phablet experience this time around. [Press Release]

Sprint Offers HTC One Max With Unlimited Data Experience original content from Ubergizmo.

Oxford’s Bodleian library—aka the Bod—is one of England’s largest libraries, a 414-year-old research hub steeped in tradition and history. For example, only three types of chair have ever been designed for use inside its walls. Until now, that is: According to Co.Design, the library has chosen a fourth design to replace its older models.

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From December 1st, 2013 onward, if you happen to be a student, you will be able to access Microsoft’s cloud-based Office 365 ProPlus without having to fork out a single cent for it, kind of anyways. The folks over at Microsoft has just announced the availability of a new Student Advantage program which would enable any academic institution which licenses Office 365 ProPlus or Office Professional Plus for staff and faculty, in order for them to provide Office 365 ProPlus to its students as well – for free! This would mean that the entire suite of products, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, InfoPath, and Access, will be part of the equation.

At the moment, a ballpark figure of the number of people who use the cloud-based Microsoft Office 365 Education happens to stand at somewhere in the region of 110 million students, faculty, and staff. With the introduction of Office 365 ProPlus, students will be able to enjoy “all the familiar and full Office applications — locally installed on up to five devices and available offline.” There are over 35,000 institutions which happen to be automatically eligible to participate in the Student Advantage service, and it will also play nice with different cloud services including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Lync Online, where all of them are free via Office 365 Education.

Free Office 365 ProPlus For Students From Microsoft, Kind Of original content from Ubergizmo.

Apple’s OS X Mavericks was announced in the middle of the year during the Cupertino company’s WWDC 2013 event, and while a Fall release date was mentioned, no specific dates were provided. However with Apple confirming their 22nd of October event, it is widely believed that is when Apple will officially release OS X Mavericks to the masses, or at least provide us with a date to look forward to. In any case it definitely looks like Apple is gearing up for a release as they have since notified developers and are asking them to submit and update their apps to take advantage of some of the new features of the upcoming operating system.

According to the notification, “Make sure your app takes advantage of the great new features in OS X Mavericks when the world’s most advanced desktop operating system becomes available to millions of customers later this fall. Download OS X Mavericks GM seed and Xcode 5.0.1 GM seed, now available on the Mac Dev Center. Build your apps with these latest seeds, then test and submit them to the Mac App Store.” As it stands OS X Mavericks has been released in as a GM build so a release in the near future is more than likely. Check back with us on the 22nd of October for the details.

Apple Asking Developers To Submit Apps For OS X Mavericks original content from Ubergizmo.

As it stands, Windows Phone 8 smartphones feature 3 hardware capacitive buttons at the bottom of the device. One is the back button, the other is the Start button, and one is the search button, all of which sort of helps identify that it is a Windows Phone device (primarily thanks to the Start button, we suppose). However it seems that in the future, Microsoft will apparently be relaxing some of their hardware requires for Windows Phone manufacturers and it is possible that OEMs will soon be able to build Windows Phone devices without hardware capacitive buttons.

The reasoning behind this is to help cut costs, especially for smaller OEMs who might not have as much resources, and who might not be designing the phones themselves and are purchasing reference designs from other companies. To make up for the lack of said buttons, it has been suggested that Microsoft is currently experimenting with on-screen buttons to ensure that functionality will not be affected by users who are used to the buttons on their phones, such as building apps around the back button and such. Google has built similar functionality into Android, so it wouldn’t be a complete stretch of the imagination if Microsoft were to follow suit.

Microsoft Reportedly Relaxing Hardware Capacitive Button Requirements For Windows Phone original content from Ubergizmo.