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uTorrent beta app now available for Android, download straight to your phone or tablet

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Earlier this year, we heard reports that BitTorrent was working on an Android version of its popular uTorrent client, and today the popular file-sharing service has released a working beta version in the Android app store. Unlike the uTorrent remote app, the new uTorrent beta app lets you download, upload, search for torrents, and subscribe to RSS feeds of content from your mobile device. The...

Pogoplug offers free device with new Amazon Glacier cloud storage plans

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Pogoplug is offering new cloud storage plans that have been enhanced with the addition of Glacier, a data archiving service provided by Amazon. The options utilize Pogoplug's existing cloud capabilities and hardware, although they offer larger storage than the plans what the company had introduced late last year.

For families and households, 100GB of cloud storage can be purchased for $29 a year for three users, 300GB for $49 for five or fewer, or 1TB for $99 every year for up to seven users. For a limited time, the company is also giving a free Pogoplug Classic to new subscribers, which connects to a router to physically store the shared data. There are Pogoplug Team plans for businesses as well, which includes up to 5TB of storage starting at $199 a year for five users. The service's Android and iOS apps are compatible with the new...

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Spotify subscriber revenues reportedly matched by free tier losses

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Music streaming service Spotify loses as much money maintaining its free, ad-supported tier as it gains from subscriber revenues, according to a report from British research firm Enders Analysis. The report estimates that Spotify made a $76 million gross profit from subscriptions in its most recent financial year, but spent almost the same amount providing the free service that it uses to lure listeners in.

As The New York Times's Media Decoder blog points out, Spotify is in "growth mode,"...


Zynga With Friends: Why they make games, why they stay

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Some days the headlines can be punishing. Reading the stories about the game development company he works for, Zynga, Kevin Holme can't help but feel weighed down by the noise. Here's a story about the company's falling share prices, here's...

Flash vulnerabilities leave Windows 8 testers at risk

Windows 8 testers using Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 browser risk running afoul of security exploits, as critical vulnerabilities in Adobe's Flash remain unresolved. Microsoft's decision to bake Flash directly into Internet Explorer 10 leaves the browser at risk: Adobe closed the security hole with a patch in August, but the browser will remain susceptible until Microsoft releases an update of their own. The flaw could cause Flash to...

Amazon's Appstore for Android tops 50,000 apps ahead of today's event

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Amazon's Appstore has passed the all-important 50,000 app mark after less than 18 months. The retail giant launched the Appstore back in March last year as a precursor to the November release of its Kindle Fire tablet, luring in Android users with exclusive and free app promotions. It surpassed 30,000 apps six months ago and, according to the official store figures, now offers 50,505 Android apps.

Although we recently confirmed an Amazon...