Angry Birds game was an overnight success for Rovio. The game was the 52nd try on the iOS platform for the game developer which struck gold with this franchise game.

During December (last month), 263 million active players took aim at the porkers with 30 million downloads the week of Christmas. On Christmas Day alone, there were 8 million downloads of Angry Birds. The monthly figure was a 30% increase over the 200 million active players for the games back in December 2011.

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T-Mobile CEO John Legere might be feeling his oats these days. After all, T-Mobile is about to turn on its first LTE market and the carrier will finally be seeing its name on the Apple iPhone some time in the next few months.

During an appearance at CES 2013 in Las Vegas, Legere speaks to someone in the audience from New York and he is an AT&T customer who apparently isn't happy with his service. Legere then calls AT&T's network "crap" in terms of speed and availability, Check the video below for the video conference.

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In the Google Play Store, there is an update for Flipboard that helps prevent accidental page flipping. Additionally, the update also exterminates some bugs that afflicted the app. But more importantly, for those with Android 4.2, it supports the Daydream feature for the OS build.

Daydream is a screensaver that turns on when the phone is charging or docked. Users can choose between seeing the clock, changing colors, photos or headlines from Google Currents. While the latter might sound interesting, it is not interactive which means while headlines appear before your eyes, you cannot touch on one to open a news story. And this is where Flipboard's update comes in.

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Samsung's Executive officially showed us a Proto-type of an Upcoming Samsung flexible YOUM-branded smartphone, the Proto-type is believed to be very close in design and features to the upcoming Samsung GALAXY S IV that will released this year. The Samsung executive showed it at Samsung's CES 2013 press conference and surprisely it was a fully working phone with a customized TouchWiz UI too.

This Proto-type has a YOUM flexible side curved-Display that work as an extension to the UI, enables the user to show horizontal content like text, icons and important messages floating horizontally without opening or touching the phone, which is very cool, the phone itself has a 5.0-inch display but we don't have any other info about the screen resolution of the hardware specifications of this GALAXY YOUM Smartphone.

According to Samsung's Executives, Samsung will be launching a whole line-up of Flexible and Bendable GALAXY smartphones under the YOUM branding in the near future, probably by the end of this year.

Don't Miss the Press Conference Video below, it's really Amazing!

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Sony revelaeed two New Falgship devices at the CES 2013 this year, Sony Xperia Z and Sony Xperia ZL. Some Sony twitter fans from Canada asked SonyMobile twitter account if the Xperia Z will be launching in Canada or not... Sony tweeted back that Both devices Xperia Z and ZL will be coming to Canada.

.@gmpope - yes both Z and ZL will be coming to Canada ^SM

— Sony Xperia News (@SonyMobileNews) January 11, 2013

The company didn't announce any confirmed release date yet, but you can expect the device to ship worldwide during this Quarter (Q1, 2013).

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