Samsung’s next big flagship phone, presumably the Galaxy S6, is almost certainly going to be announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in March. And according to new rumors, it’s looking more likely than ever that it’ll be running something close to stock Android. Be still, my heart.
Comcast’s customer service record isn’t stellar and while you might wonder why the company doesn’t do more to improve its reputation it certainly pulls out all the stops to get some bad press. Ricardo Brown has a Comcast cable subscription and when his wife had a disagreement when trying to cancel the subscription the family started receiving monthly statements in which Ricardo’s full name had been changed to an expletive, “A**hole Brown.”
When Brown’s wife Lisa got on the phone to cancel their subscription she was transferred to one of Comcast’s infamous “retention specialists” and it seems like that person didn’t like taking no for an answer.
Lisa Brown says that she was never rude with the retention specialist, “it could have been that person was upset because I didn’t take the offer.”
Comcast is like countless other companies who make it very hard to cancel a subscription. These retention specialists are tasked with ensuring that customers don’t give up on the company and keep paying for its services.
Journalist Ryan Block recorded an excruciating call with a Comcast retention specialist last year which has to date been listen to over six million times.
Customers have a right to choose and shouldn’t have to jump through so many hoops when they want to cancel a subscription and move on. Renaming a customer to an expletive and then sending it out on a monthly statement crosses all sorts of red lines.
Comcast confirmed to Wired that it has apologized for this “completely unacceptable and inappropriate name change.”
The company says it’s conducting an investigation to find out what happened and promises to take steps to ensure that this doesn’t happen again. Comcast is apparently also offering the Brown family a full refund for all the service payments they’ve made for the past two years.
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Makers of the SwiftKey custom keyboard for Android have been conducting a beta test with Chinese-speaking users for quite some time now. Today they announced that SwiftKey for Android now has full support for the Chinese language. There are seven new input methods that ensures users have a choice no matter how they like to type.
Following the successful beta test the app has gained full support for Simplified Chinese, Taiwan Traditional Chinese and Hong Kong Traditional Chinese.
For Simplified Chinese SwiftKey now supports the QWERTY Pinyin input method as well as the stroke and 12-key Pinyin input methods. For Taiwan Traditional Chinese users there is support for full key Zhuyin, 12-key Zhuyin and stroke input methods.
SwiftKey also brings support for Hong Kong Traditional Chinese with Cangjie, Quick Cangjie as well as the stroke input methods being supported.
The new language support isn’t all that the new SwiftKey for Android update brings. It also has a new theme which celebrates the Chinese New Year.
There is improved prediction strength for full sentences and the app’s learning algorithm ensures that the custom keyboard learns and adapts to the user’s typing style.
SwiftKey for Android is available as a free download. The latest version is now live at the Google Play Store.
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Facebook today announced a new pilot program that its running in New York City. The feature it’s testing out is called Place Tips. Users will notice it at the top of their News Feeds when they’re out on the town. Tapping on Place Tips will bring up a series of cards that will bring useful information. Users must have location services enabled to use this feature otherwise it’s of no use to them.
Tapping on the Place Tips will show photos and posts shared by users’ friends who have visited the same place. For example if someone visits the Brooklyn Bowl they’ll see updates that their friends made when they were there too. Information from the spot’s own Facebook page, if it has one, will be surfaced as well.
All of the content that’s displayed to users by this feature has to be publicly shared. Facebook Place Tips doesn’t change anything with regards to users’ privacy settings.
Place Tips will only appear if Facebook is give the permission to access the device’s location. It uses things like GPS and Wi-Fi to locate the user and bring up information based on that location. The feature can be turned off at any time in the settings menu.
In some places around New York the company has also installed Facebook Bluetooth Beacons which will automatically send a signal to a phone that’s in range. This will help the service narrow down users’ location and show the “right tips for the right place.”
Bluetooth Beacons are being tested in various locations around New York including museums, businesses and hotels.
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Electronic Arts finally confirmed the new Battlefield Hardline beta release date today. One had been rumored a few days back. EA has been teasing the open multiplayer beta for a couple of weeks now and today gamers have finally come to know when they will be able to take the next Battlefield title out for a spin.
Apart from confirming the new Battlefield Hardline beta release Electronic Arts also released a new trailer which brings more footage from this cops vs robbers title. Hardline’s story line puts cops against criminals, both armed to the teeth, as they battle it out for territory and money.
EA has already confirmed that this beta doesn’t place a cap on progression level so gamers will really be able to put it to the test. The beta comes with three maps and multiple game modes.
In Hotwire players have to capture stolen cars displayed on a map and Heist puts them in the middle of bank robberies. The Conquest mode, which allows up to 64 players to battle it out, is available as well.
We reported recently that the new Battlefield Hardline beta release date is February 3rd and that’s exactly what EA has announced today. The new beta will run from February 3rd to February 8th and will be available to games on Windows PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One and the Xbox 360.
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A new dinosaur species discovered in China is being called “extreme”–and for good reason. The dino’s neck is so long that it makes up more than half of the creature’s huge 49-foot-long body.
The dinosaur–dubbed Qijianglong guokr, or “dragon of Qijiang”–is believed to have roamed Asia about 160 million years ago in the Late Jurassic Period. It was identified by skull and vertebrae fossils unearthed in 2006 by construction workers near Quiang City in the southern part of the country.
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Artist’s conception of Qijianglong being chased by two carnivorous dinosaurs in southern China 160 million years ago.
“If you imagine a big animal that is half neck, you can see that evolution can do quite extraordinary things,” Tetsuto Miyashita, a Ph.D. student at the University of Alberta in Canada and a member of the team of scientists who identified the dinosaur, said in a written statement. “Qijianglong shows that long-necked dinosaurs diversified in unique ways in Asia during Jurassic times—something very special was going on in that continent.”
Qijianglong is believed to belong to mamenchisauridae, a family of dinosaurs known for extremely long necks. But unlike most mamenchisaurids, Qijianglong had vertebrae that were hollow and so tightly linked that the dinosaur’s neck is believed to have been stiff like a construction crane.
A paper describing the newly identified dinosaur was published online in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology on Jan. 26, 2015.
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