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HTC OneOnce every long while there emerges a unique smartphone that raises the bar for design, speed and connectivity, and its camera. During my recent extended test of an HTC One with AT&T’s 4G LTE service, I discovered some surprising and interesting details relating to those categories.
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Get ready for some football! Starting this season, thousands of NFL fans will be visiting stadiums across the country to see their favorite teams play. There is a minor but important change to the yearly tradition with the new NFL All Clear Policy.Because big events like these involve tailgating, wearing team jerseys and bringing in team related necessities, the NFL needs their attendees to be All Clear.

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The Google Play Store for Android smartphones offers hundreds of thousands of apps, so where to start? Over the past several years, I have come to rely on a few key mobile apps that help to keep me organized. When setting up my new Samsung Galaxy S4 via the Verizon Wireless Buzz Ambassador program, the apps I use most are for photography, video and social networking.Taking photos and videos for posting to social networks is huge. So having the right apps is very important. I was excited to see what the S4 could do with its 13 megapixel HD camera. The first photo app I downloaded to assist with the filtering of photos was Snapseed from Google.

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Disclosure: iCoffee by Remington sent me a review test unit. Opinions and observations expressed here are my own.

Technology is increasingly making its way into a plethora of consumer products to solve multiple problems, like with traditional coffee makers and the bitter coffee they produce. Enter the iCoffee by Remington with so many improvements over standard drip, French press and single-serving machines that I easily saw why this model was getting so much buzz.

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Unboxing by Chris Rauschnot @24k on Twitter

The Verzion Wireless Buzz Group recently invited me to check out their newest offerings, the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone. As the fourth edition to their line of wildly successful smartphones worldwide, I was excited to see what the design, capability and advanced features it had over what I’m used to working with each day.
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Socializing in person and via social media just got more interesting with a new app and online social chat. Klinq recently presented an event with multiple brand sponsors called Social Sips, inside of the renovated Gold Spike located in Downtown Las Vegas. The social sips event could easily be described as a Meetup or Tweetup with a philanthropic twist. A few days after the live event, a virtual WineTwits chat garnered hundreds of Tweets relating to wine. It was completely operated in the cloud of the Internet and brought many wine enthusiasts together to talk about three preselected wines.

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