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Dear Brian and the Airbnb team, Usually I am a fan of your service. However, I have a minor bone to pick with you, in that it appears my apartment was reserved for some major boning.

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Uber is a popular ridesharing service that has seen significant global expansion in the past year. The company is often criticized for various reasons, some find fault with its surge pricing policies while others downright oppose its presence in their cities. Since a tragic incident in San Francisco on New Year’s Eve, there has been much talk about Uber’s insurance policy. It has made a few changes and described the updated policy in detail on its official blog. Drivers and passengers are now insured when the Uber mobile app is turned on during a ride, coverage of up to $100,000 is offered for bodily injuries, with $50,000 maximum per person.

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Uber Details Updated Insurance Policy For Passengers And Drivers original content from Ubergizmo.

Cosy is a smart heating system being developed in Cambridge, U.K. — and aiming to ship product next month — that’s hoping to stand out from the Nest-shaped competition by offering a more fully-featured and holistic home automation system that can remotely switch on appliances as well as fire the boiler up. Read More

Samsung makes and sells Android phones like hot cakes, so it wouldn’t come as a surprise if most people didn’t know that it actually makes Windows Phone smartphones as well, albeit not as frequently. It has actually been quite a while since Samsung released a new Windows Phone device, and according to recent rumors, it has one up its sleeve that is going to be a Verizon exclusive. Believed to be called the Samsung ATIV SE, recently the smartphone was seen passing through the FCC. Now its press image has surfaced online.

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Samsung ATIV SE For Verizon Press Image Leaked original content from Ubergizmo.

Often we hear about children racking up hundreds of dollars worth of in-app purchases, paid for by their parents with real money. Parents’ consent is usually not there in such cases. Even if they allow one in-app purchase, a 30-minute window is opened in which subsequent purchases can be made without requiring credentials or consent. Children can continue to make in-app purchases without the parents even knowing. A mother recently sued Google after her son spent $66 without her knowledge. The company has now tweaked the way it bills IAPs.

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Google Tweaks In-App Purchase Billing original content from Ubergizmo.