BGR Daily Breaking Stories

Daily Headlines FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 2015

5 awesome paid iPhone apps you can download for free right now (a $30 value!) Bummed that CES 2015 is over? No worries — we’ll try to cheer you up by telling you about some paid iPhone apps that you can download for free for a limited time. Taken together, these five apps would normally cost you a total of $30 but you can get them all free of charge if you act right now. Hurry!  MORE → HBO reveals Game of Thrones, Veep premiere dates After nearly a year of waiting, we finally know when we’ll be returning to Westeros. HBO announced on Thursday that the fifth season of Game of Thrones will premiere on April 12th at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The fifth season will adapt portions of the fourth and fifth books in the series.  MORE → What it’s like using a $27 Apple Watch knockoff Chinese manufacturers over the years have shown that they’re exceptionally good at cranking out dirt-cheap knockoffs of key Apple products and it seems the Apple Watch is no exception. Mashable’s Karissa Bell spotted a pretty convincing Apple Watch knockoff at CES 2015 this year and she just couldn’t resist buying it and writing about her experience using it.  MORE → Sprint is showing signs of life at just the right time Wait a minute, is this possible? Is Sprint finally dusting itself off and getting ready to fight after year’s of being the wireless industry’s whipping boy? Per GigaOM, Sprint this week reported that it added 967,000 net subscribers in the final calendar quarter of 2014, which was enough to help it remain the third-largest wireless carrier in the country despite the huge gains T-Mobile has made in the last year.  MORE → Good news, Netflix pirates: Your VPN access won’t be stopped anytime soon After news broke out a few days ago that Netflix might finally be fulfilling one of the requests coming from movie studios and rights holders — stopping Internet users, who bypass geographical limitations with help of VPN connections, from accessing Netflix content from countries other than their own (especially Netflix content for the U.S.) — the company has strongly denied such accusations, BBC reports.  MORE → Your private browsing habits are far from being as private as you might think Most modern browsers come with special private modes meant to help users hide their surfing habits from coworkers or family and/or try to prevent sites from tracking their online activity. That doesn’t mean spy agencies or ISPs won’t be able to see what sites users access — that’s not what private browsing does, as Eric Schmidt has recently learned — but that, in theory, users might guard their privacy to some extent. However, as Business Insider reveals, private browsing isn’t exactly as private as you thought it was.  MORE → How LG’s G Flex 2 fares against top flagship smartphones LG made a splash at CES 2015, announcing a brand new flagship device that happens to be its most powerful Android smartphone to date. In addition to offering users a different kind of smartphone shape than they might be used to, the G Flex 2 also packs top hardware, which means it should offer buyers a terrific experience.  MORE → AT&T says the FTC can’t do anything to stop its throttling of ‘unlimited’ data customers OK, so it looks like AT&T has been throttling data speeds for customers who have “unlimited” data plans despite the fact that those plans are supposed to be, well, unlimited. Who’s going to do anything about it? The Federal Trade Commission? Well, maybe not. As Ars Technica reports, AT&T doesn’t think the FTC has the jurisdiction to stop them.  MORE → Video: Watch Steve Ballmer perform a hilariously insane dance during a Clippers game We’re very happy to see that being away from Microsoft hasn’t changed former CEO Steve Ballmer too much. In fact, it seems that since taking over as owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball franchise, Ballmer has become even more Ballmer-y than ever before.  MORE → GoPro’s new Hero4 cameras are about to get even better GoPro a few months ago unveiled a new line of powerful cameras, deciding to announce the new products well ahead of CES 2015. But as Engadget points out, the company does have a small announcement related to its brand new Hero4 cameras set for this particular tech event. MORE →

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