Monday, October 14, 2013 at 10:06PM 
The upcoming Android 4.4 version or KitKat will let you choose the third-party app to manage your text messaging needs. According to a post on Google’s developer blog, the company wants to provide a proper, supported way for the third-party messaging apps to gain access to your texts, instead of using workarounds that the company doesn’t approve of.
Monday, October 14, 2013 at 9:56PM 
"watch TV" by D.Reichardt, Creative Commons License
The government wants to give its citizens the ability to buy channels on an a la carte basis, according to a report on The Verge.
Industry Minister James Moore said on an interview, "We don't think it's right for Canadians to have to pay for bundled television channels that they don't watch. We want to unbundle television channels and allow Canadians to pick and pay the specific television channels that they want."
Monday, October 14, 2013 at 9:36PM 
Based on a new terms of use announced on Friday, Google will be able to collect your comments and ratings on Play Store or any of its products and sell these to companies as “shared endorsements” to be used for online advertising. The new policy will go live on November 11 and will display users’ names, photos, and comments beside things liked, reviewed, followed, or positively commented on. You can opt out of the feature for now through this page.
Monday, October 14, 2013 at 10:48AM 
If there was any doubt that 2013 is the year of the supersized smartphone, then that doubt's been effectively dispelled as HTC throws its hat into the ring with the HTC One max. Bringing the experience of the highly regarded HTC One flagship up a few sizes, the One Max is outfitted with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600, 1.7GHz quad-core CPU, 2GB of RAM, 16 or 32GB of storage and added expansion via microSD. The Max runs Android 4.3 with HTC Sense 5.5, HTC BlinkFeed.
