BGR Daily Breaking Stories

Daily Headlines FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Cable companies shrug off cord cutters by jacking up broadband prices So you think you’re going to save money by canceling your cable TV service and watching your favorite shows through online streaming options? Sure, that may work at first but cable companies will still figure out how to get their pound of flesh from you unless they face real competition in the home broadband market. The New York Post points out that even though cable companies are losing pay TV subscribers, they’re making up for this lost revenue by jacking up prices on home broadband services.  MORE → Apple has already patched the most terrifying iPhone malware yet After a security report revealed that iPhone users in Asia were at risk at having their devices infected with an advanced malware program that can be used to steal data from devices after they’re connected to a previously infected MacBook, Apple told Business Insider that it has already patched the serious security issue.  MORE → Huge leak: Video shows Android 5.0 and new TouchWiz running on Samsung’s Galaxy S4 Samsung fans, we have good news and better news. The good news is that Samsung is hard at work preparing a big Android 5.0 Lollipop update for its smartphone lineup — and not just its latest phones, but last year’s popular handsets as well. The better news is that Samsung is much further along in the process than you might assume. In fact, it’s so far along that a very stable version of Samsung’s Android 5.0 build for the Galaxy S4 has leaked, and we can see the new software in action along with Samsung’s redesigned TouchWiz user interface in a new video that hit the web on Friday.  MORE → Awesome news, Android fans: Office for Android tablets is now available for you to try Microsoft’s Office for iPad product was a great success last year, but the company did not bring its famous productivity suite to Android tablets at the same time. However, the company is getting closer to releasing an Android tablet optimized version of Office in the near future, as Microsoft on Thursday announced it’s taking registrations for a preview version of Office for Android tablets.  MORE → Microsoft’s first Lumia smartphone is almost here There are many Windows Phone Lumia handsets in stores, but these devices still have Nokia branding, which Microsoft has to ditch. However, that’s about to soon change, as the company next week will release its first ever Lumia handset that doesn’t have Nokia written anywhere on it. As The Verge reports, Microsoft has already started teasing a November 11th announcement on its website, when it should unveil the first Microsoft Lumia smartphone.  MORE → Home Depot confirms 53 million email addresses stolen in massive hack After confirming a few weeks ago that credit card details for more than 56 million customers were stolen by hackers who managed to breach Home Depot’s security system in a sophisticated Target-like manner, the retail store on Thursday also confirmed that as many as 53 million email addresses were also stolen by attackers, The New York Times reports.  MORE → Here’s how you can have your own Star Trek communicator While we’re a long way from being able to boldly go explore new galaxies Star Trek-style, a communicator such as the one worn by Enterprise employees to talk to one another is available for preorder right now for just $99, though buying just one won’t be enough to turn it into a Star Trek-like communicator.  MORE → Comcast is ‘really sorry’ your TV services crashed twice this week If you’re a Comcast customer, you may have noticed that you couldn’t watch some of your favorite shows at a couple of different points this week. And you weren’t alone — Consumerist reports that Comcast TV outages were widespread this week and that the company has issued a formal apology for the service disruptions, which were apparently so bad that many customers couldn’t get through to Comcast’s customer service lines to complain because they were being flooded with so many calls.  MORE → Video: South Park hilariously shames ‘freemium’ smartphone games If there’s one tremendously annoying trend over the past few years, it’s been the rise of “freemium” games that are free to download but that constantly charge you money to make the game actually enjoyable. The most infamous example of this was EA’s botched Dungeon Keeper reboot where players complained that the game took hours to even really get started unless you sent the developers money via microtransactions.  MORE → New report says you shouldn’t expect a 128GB iPhone 6 Plus recall Some 128GB iPhone 6 Plus owners with large app libraries have complained about unexpected crashes and reboots on their devices, with one report from South Korea suggesting the problem may lie with the memory modules chosen for this specific iPhone model, which could lead to a product recall. Soon after that, 9to5Mac refuted those claims, saying that Apple is aware of the “rare bug” and that the problem is not related to NAND flash memory. In a new report, Digitimes agreed with 9to5Mac’s findings, saying that the memory controller is unlikely to be the cause of this particular iPhone 6 Plus problem.  MORE →

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