| Today's Top 3 Stories | | #1 | Smartphone Wars Shift From Gadgetry To Price
| | | The mobile phone industry is now looking to the fast-growing demand for smartphones priced at $100 or below as the market for fancier high-end devices has become saturated, but not all handset makers are able or willing to trade down. (Reuters)
Why This Is Important: Consumers are becoming weary of perpetual new-feature announcements, and they're focusing on the bottom line: pricing.
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| | #2 | Google's Next Developer Conference Is All About Modular Smartphones
| | | The dream of piecing together a smartphone like Lego blocks no longer seems far-fetched. Google announced today that it will host three developer conferences this year for its Project Ara modular smartphone concept, with the first set for April 14 and 15 in Mountain View, Calif.(VentureBeat)
Why This Is Important: The concept was first proposed by Motorola's advanced technology and platforms group in late 2013, but as of last week they had officially joined Google.
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| | #3 | 15 Percent Of Internet Users Think The Web Is Bad For Society, Pew Says
| | | The web turns 25 this year. Its birthday, however, may not be celebrated by everyone. Fifteen percent of Internet users said it has been bad for society, according to the Pew Research Center, in the first of several reports commissioned to look at the rise of digital technologies. Six percent of users said it was bad for them personally, based on data from telephone interviews with roughly 1,000 adults,
according to findings released Thursday. (PCWorld)
Why This Is Important: Factors that may be driving this low opinion of the Internet: online bullying, the ease of which misinformation is spread, he loss of privacy, and the loss of real human contact.
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"All vendors face the challenge of the cost of key hardware components such as screen displays, memory and keyboards," said Qian Hao Lv, head of ZTE's device strategy. "These are crucial to differentiate one model from the next."
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