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Daily Headlines MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2014

MacMall’s monster Cyber Monday sale offers killer deals on Apple products MacMall’s big Black Friday 2014 sale offered some of the best prices we’ve seen all year on tons of Apple gear spanning from iPads and MacBooks to accessories and cables. The holiday shopping season is only just beginning, however, and MacMall is already back with another huge sale. This time around, MacMall is offering killer deals on well over 100 Apple devices and related accessories for Cyber Monday.  MORE → Best Buy’s huge Cyber Monday sale has begun – here’s everything you need to know Black Friday 2014 may be behind us, but that doesn’t mean your opportunities to save tons of money on great gadgets and other electronics are over. Welcome to Cyber Monday, the start of week-long sales that help attention shift away from brick and mortar stores and onto the web, where virtual stores large and small offer huge deals in an effort to draw in holiday shoppers. Of course, just because these big deals are online only doesn’t mean brick and mortar retailers are left out of the action. This year, some of the best tech and gadget deals you’ll find on Cyber Monday come courtesy of Best Buy.  MORE → Everything you need to know about Walmart’s massive Cyber Monday sale Retailers across the country aren’t done trying to make this year’s holiday shopping season bigger than any other year, and Walmart’s massive Cyber Monday sale will certainly help matters. After offering some of the biggest savings we saw on Black Friday, Walmart has now kicked off another big sale for Cyber Monday. With huge savings on everything spanning from HDTVs and tablets to clothing and video games, there is something for everyone at Walmart this year. The retailer is also offering free shipping on orders of $50 or more, and with deals like these it will be easy to hit that total.  MORE → T-Mobile has an unbelievably hot Cyber Monday deal on the iPhone 6 T-Mobile has a great new Cyber Monday deal for smartphone buyers looking to score a cheaper iPhone this year, and the impressive offer is also good for the iPhone 6: The carrier is basically offering a free $100 memory upgrade, meaning that buyers can purchase a higher-capacity iPhone for $100 less than it usually costs.  MORE → The sleekest Android phone of the year is getting a massive upgrade next year According to a new report from China, HTC is going to unveil its next-gen Android flagship handset next year at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona, Spain. Online publication MyDrivers has already gotten its hands on some details regarding the HTC One (M8)’s successor, including specs for next year’s top HTC handset.  MORE → This cool iPhone Touch ID app unlocks your Mac with your fingerprint FingerKey is a new iOS application that takes advantage of Apple’s Touch ID fingerprint sensor found on the iPhone 5s, iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus, giving it an interesting feature that Mac owners, who also have one of these fingerprint-enabled iPhones, will love. As 9to5Mac reports, FingerKey will let you unlock a Mac computer with help of your fingerprint, which is a lot easier than having to type in the password on the Mac each time you want to unlock it.  MORE → OnStar’s in-car LTE and Wi-Fi service looks like a treat for anyone buying a new GM car General Motors is giving people who buy many of its 2015 models a treat in the form of OnStar with 4G LTE. The new OnStar with 4G LTE receives LTE data from AT&T and then converts it to Wi-Fi signals that can support up to seven devices in your car at once. This means that anyone you’re driving with can have access to the web on their laptops, smartphones and tablets while you’re driving. Even better, the Wi-Fi hotspot range extends to a 50-foot radius, which means you can have Wi-Fi connectivity from your car even if you’re not inside it.  MORE → Walmart puts a clever spin on Cyber Monday sales with hot Evening Edition deals Walmart has announced a special sales event for Cyber Monday, “the industry-first Cyber Monday ‘Evening Edition’ deals,” as well as a special Cyber Monday deal that will bring consumers savings of up to 90%. These Evening Edition sales have been created for “working Americans and Millennial shoppers,” Walmart said in the announcement.  MORE → Miss out on Black Friday? Don’t worry – these retailers will give you the best Cyber Monday deals With Black Friday over, savvy holiday shoppers are already looking ahead to Cyber Monday when online retailers offer discounts that are often even better than the ones offered by the brick-and-mortar stores. Mobile shopping app ShopSavvy, which lets its users track major sales at different retailers across multiple brands, has given us some data about which retailers are offering the biggest average discounts on Cyber Monday and it looks like gadget lovers should check out Newegg, Best Buy and ThinkGeek first.  MORE → How to run Android apps on Windows 8 PCs in 15 easy steps Android is currently the world’s dominant mobile platform, having more than a billion monthly users according to Google’s most recent stats. These users have also downloaded billions of apps from the Google Play Store on their Android smartphones and tablets, which shows Android apps are in high demand everywhere. Those Android fans that want, for some reason, to run Android on their Windows PCs complete with Google Play Store apps can now do so after performing some 15 dead easy steps, as detailed by PhoneArena.  MORE →

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