Gadgetory

it's thursday august twenty-third 2012 I'm Nilay Patel and I refuse to be blocked from your wireless networks this is 90 seconds on the verge after 25 years Microsoft has decided to update its logo and it's four solid colors and some funky letter spacing compared to the old logo the new version is extremely simple and it fits right in with Microsoft's new design aesthetic microsoft says the new logo is designed to quote signal the heritage but also signal the future the company did not confirm whether microsoft paint was used to design the new logo facebook has gone native for the iphone and ipad while older version simply embedded a slow html5 webapp the new five-point oh of date was built from the ground up using Apple's iOS sdk the new facebook for iOS looks nearly identical to the old version but i'll let you stop those X's nearly twice as fast as expected 18 t's new mobile share plans are now available the new plans offer unlimited voice and text and are paired with buckets of data that can be shared among multiple devices plans range from 1 gigabyte for forty dollars a month up to 20 gigabytes for two hundred dollars the new plans are designed with 18 teach RG variable amounts for data as you use more of it while charging you a flat fee for voice and text with everyones using Lessa and finally amazon has announced a press event in California on September 6th around this time last year Amazon held an event in New York to refresh its entire kindle lineup and introduce the kindle fire tablet you can also expect a never-ending series of terrible fire puns from the decaying media of a decorative empire that has simply run out of ideas that's it for today's top stories tune in tomorrow when Paul Miller discovers exactly how many grams of sugar there are in a can of coke