Bondsy is an iOS app for your iPhone or iPad that lets you barter your unwanted items for someone elses.  That’s right. If you want to get rid of that fushia sofa you got stuck with when your ex left, you can barter it away to friends or friends of friends. The whole idea is that you barter with a much more intimate circle than eBay or Craigslist. 
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Jennifer Lopez has announced she’ll be majority shareholder of a new chain of cellphone retail stores aimed specifically at the Latino market. Viva Movil will be a reseller for handsets on the Verizon network.
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One company alone made more than $5 billion profit from the Android system in the first three months of 2013. Surprisingly it’s not Google but rather Samsung that’s raking it in.
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The wait for a Facebook phone seemed to take years. Now, just a few weeks after its debut, it seems you have to almost give it away.
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These days most smartphones have a good-quality lens in their camera. But two different in-development tools would make particularly creative use of multiple lenses.
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Plenty of smartphones and other mobile devices have text-to-speech tools to make them more useful for deaf people. Now an Indian firm is planning a 2014 release for a phone that uses Braille for blind people.
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MetroPCS shareholders approved its merger with T-Mobile after Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile’s parent company offered a sweeter loan deal. The merger of the fourth and fifth mobile phone carriers in the US will offer more competition with Verizon and AT&T and more choice for consumers.
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The Federal Trade Commission is set to investigate a formal complaint that wireless firms have failed to issue software updates for Android Handsets. The complaint, from the American Civil Liberties Union, says handsets that don’t get security fixes are effectively defective.
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Ever wanted a disposable phone number without the cost of purchasing a disposable phone? Burner offers you that option.  You can now get “fake”phone numbers for your Android cell phone. The app was first offered for iPhones last summer.
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You did indeed read that headline correctly.  A global “branding” company that specializes in “building world-class brands through elegantly simple, unexpectedly fresh strategies, stories and experiences” released a comparison of Samsung Galaxy and Apple iPhone. The survey questioned 400 people to come up with the results.
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