| Today's Top 3 Stories | | #1 | Smartphone With Wi-Fi Smarts | | | What if you could get a top-tier, current-model smartphone with all the bells and whistles, and pay between $5 and $40 a month for unlimited voice, text and data? (AllThingsD) Why This Is Important: With money still tight, consumers are looking for methods of saving money and cutting back on cellular/data spending is a good way to go.
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| | #2 | iPad Mini Retina More Widely Available, Catches First Mini
| | | The iPad Mini Retina is now available for walk-in purchase at Apple stores nationwide. And new data shows that the new Mini has caught up to the original version in adoption. (CNET)
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Why This Is Important: Carrier stores (such as Verizon and AT&T) still don't have wide availability, although this could change as more retailers increase their stock of the Mini Retina.
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| | #3 | Is It Game Over For Video Game Consoles?
| | | As a kid, Jared Cate spent long hours playing Nintendo's Pokemon and The Legend of Zelda video games. So when the company released its Wii U console before Christmas last year, Cate, 23, rushed to a local GameStop store in Atlanta to buy one. "I was about to move to San Francisco and figured it'd be a great thing to play with my family in my last few days at home," he recalls. (BusinessWeek)
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"At some point, if you're only giving and getting gift cards, you might as well write each other a check," said Patricia Norins, a retail expert and spokesperson for Small Business Saturday, on the thrill of giving just gift cards instead of a physical present for the holidays.
| | | Blog Post of The Day | Answers To All The Tech Questions Your Family Will Ask You This Holiday By Roberto Baldwin Maybe it's your mom and/or dad. Maybe it's a sibling or a grandparent. Or maybe it's just that one friend who still uses a Motorola Razr from the early 2000s. Whoever it is, there's a high probability you'll be devoting some time to fixing their gadgets and answeringa backlog of questions this holiday season.
The WIRED staff feels your pain. Covering technology for a living means there are pretty high expectations when it comes to finding lost downloads and answering a year's worth of questions about Apple, Google, Xbox, and Netflix — often before even putting our suitcases down. Our pain (Fine. It's not really a pain. We love
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