| Today's Top 3 Stories | | #1 | Sony Shows Off New Curves With Its 4K Bravia S90 TV
| | | Sony offered up a pair of curved-screen LED LCD TVs in a new Bravia S90 series as pre-IFA show announcements coming later in Berlin. The sets will be offered in 65- and 75-inch screen sizes, both including a new 4.2-channel multi-angle live speaker system with Sony's ClearAudio+ Discrete Processing for 360-degree surround sound. (Pocket-Lint, What Hi-Fi?)
Why This Is Important: Although TV manufacturers are still figuring out the market demand for curve-screen TVs, Sony's European unit is taking strides to keep up with Samsung, LG and others in the curved space. No announcements have been made yet on market plans or pricing in the U.S. or abroad.
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| | #2 | Good News For Consumers: T-Mobile's Uncarrier Is Moving The Needle
| | | The deals on wireless service keep getting better, thanks to T-Mobile's Uncarrier strategy. The smallest of the four major wireless carriers in the U.S., which last week unveiled a new promotional plan offering a family of four 10 gigabytes of data for $100 a month, has had an effect on the market. In fact, it seems to be the only thing pushing giant rivals, AT&T and Verizon Wireless, to revise their pricing. (Cnet)
Why This Is Important: The major carriers see family plans as a huge part of their business, and as more parents add their children and their own parents to their wireless plans, the need to keep pricing affordable is front and center.
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| | #3 | Microsoft Scraps Windows 8 Major Updates. Bets The Farm On Windows 9
| | | It's official, Windows 8 is a write-off. Sales for the operating system have been poor and now it is even starting to lose market share to Windows 7. To Microsoft's credit it has bravely persisted addressing issue after issue. Most notable was the major Windows 8.1 Update 1 patch released in April which makes the OS a genuinely credible platform. Still it remains far from perfect and now Microsoft is prematurely pulling the plug. (Forbes)
Why This Is Important: Instead of reinventing the wheel and restoring many of the features that users said they missed from Windows 7 through major updates, Microsoft will restore those features and by all accounts simplify the user interface in the next-generation Windows 9.
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