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Reading your child a bedtime story is an experience most parents probably enjoy more than their children do as it allows them to be creative in how they deliver the story to their child. Changing your voice to simulate what they believe the character would sound like is one way to be creative, but another, more tech-friendly method would be to put these Smart PJs on your child.

The Smart PJs have dots all over them, which are placed in a way where they’re scannable to pull up a bedtime story when you scan them. Parents would have to download Smart PJs’ respective application either on their iOS or Android device, and they can let their child choose which dot pattern they like the best to have its corresponding story read to them. The Smart PJs application also puts the words to all of the stories and information on animals on the screen, which can help their child learn to read the stories themselves.

Smart PJs are available in four different sizes for both boys and girls and only cost $25. We’re not sure how many stories the Smart PJs can make available, but we do know that it’s probably enough to keep your child entertained while being drifted off to sleep for a couple of years.

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The other day we reported that the shareholders of MetroPCS have given the T-Mobile/MetroPCS merger their blessings to proceed. We were also wondering if at that time would the deal be able to conclude in time as originally scheduled, which was targeted for completion around mid-year. Surprisingly it seems that despite a tiny setback from their shareholders, the CEO of Deutsche Telekom, the parent company of T-Mobile USA, has announced that the merger has been made official and will officially take place on the 1^st of May! According to the statement:

We have accomplished a lot in the USA recently, for example our network modernization and the new T-Mobile USA management team, which has seen considerable success. And we have finalized the contracts with Apple and MetroPCS. The merger with MetroPCS is extremely important, since it enables us to be more aggressive in the USA.

We’re sure that customers of both T-Mobile and MetroPCS are eager to see what sort of new deals that they can benefit from based on this merger, but we guess we will probably have to wait until the 1^st of May before the details are revealed! In the meantime, any T-Mobile/MetroPCS subscribers out there excited by this merger?

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In recent months we have seen Twitter make some amazing improvements to its mobile apps. It almost felt as if the microblogging network had forgotten about its Mac app. Today they’ve released a new update at last which brings Retina display support. Good news for those rocking Retina Macbook Pros, their Twitter experience will now be clearer and sharper. Twitter tells us to expect more improvements for the app in the near future.

The new Twitter for Mac update also brings photo upload improvements. It is now easier and faster to upload photos through the app. There’s a camera icon in the lower left corner of the Tweet compose box, clicking it will bring up a box through which photos can be selected. The ability to drag and drop photos from the desktop for upload is still there. Apart from all this, the app update adds support for 14 more languages, and offers keyboard shortcuts as well as support for multiple accounts and timelines. The new Twitter for Mac update is now live, and can be downloaded right away from the Mac App Store.

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Huawei has confirmed that it is shifting the focus of its carrier business from the U.S. Chief Technology Office for Huawei’s carrier networking group, Li Sanqi, said that “Apparently, due to whatever the geopolitical reasons, we are not focusing on the U.S. market.” In October last year a Congressional report stated that Huawei’s networking equipment could be a national security risk, the report advised telecom operators in the country to avoid purchasing such equipment from this company, which it believes to have ties with the Chinese government. Officials believe that Huawei’s equipment can be used by China to launch hacking attacks against the country, and seeing as how Chinese attack traffic reportedly tripled in the final quarter of 2012, it can prove to be difficult to refute this claim.

The U.S. accounts for 30% of the world’s carrier market and Huawei definitely wants to have a piece of it. However now it will be focusing its energies towards opportunities in growing markets such as China. U.S. is also going to take a firm stand against Chinese cyberattacks, the administration is reportedly considering a number of options which includes, but is not limited to, economic sanctions.

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Facebook Home brought over “stickers” for Messenger. Stickers are basically emoticons on steroids, they’re similar to those we have seen on other chat applications such as LINE. These large and quite funny emoticons can be sent to your friends during chats. Earlier today we posted a guide on how to enable stickers on Android, but now Facebook Messenger for Android has been updated and it comes with stickers, no need to perform any trying procedures.

To get stickers on your Android device, just update the Facebook Messenger app. The latest version is now live and can be downloaded right away from Google Play Store. To use them just open a chat dialog, tap on the smiley at the right hand side, select your desired sticker and hit send. These only work in FB chat, attempting them in SMS won’t be of any use. In the release notes Facebook mentions that the stickers feature will be available to everyone soon, initial comments from people who have downloaded the updated Messenger app reveal that stickers aren’t exactly there in the dialog box. This seems a bit odd. Are you facing a similar issue?

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