Samsung Galaxy S4 Price

The Samsung Galaxy S 4 smartphone will be available for pre-sale via AT&T starting Tuesday, April 16. It will be priced at $249.99 with a two-year commitment with the carrier.

The new flagship device was announced earlier this month with much fanfare in New York City, but no price details were revealed until now. Other phone carriers on board include Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile.

The nearly $250 price tag is a bit higher than most competitors. In fact, the iPhone 5 typically sells for about $200 with the same contract commitment.

The Harlem Shake Video

The videos feature the song Harlem Shake by electronic musician Baauer, and a dancing style not to be confused with the original Harlem Shake. Normally, each video begins with one person (often masked) dancing to the song alone for 15 seconds, surrounded by other people unaware of the dancing individual. When the bass drops, the camera transitions to the entire crowd doing the dance for the next 15 seconds, often wearing a minimum of clothes or crazy outfits or costumes while wielding strange props. The success of the video was attributed to its break out moment and short length of which the first version of the widely accepted and adopted internet meme was created by five teenagers known as The Sunny Coast Skate from Queensland Australia. The phenomenon spread due to the number of people replicating and uploading similar videos.

Check out this video and perhaps you can do your own Harlem Shake Parody.

Mailbox App Released on iPhone

Mailbox, the much-hyped email app that has been in limited beta since late last year, finally hit Apple's App Store on Thursday, but don't expect to be able to use it on your iPhone just yet.

Rather than let everyone download the app at the same time, the company is taking the unusual step of rolling it out gradually to users on a first-come-first-serve basis. Last month, Mailbox introduced an online reservation system to let users sign up to try the app; starting today, that reservation system is being phased out and the only way to reserve a spot is by downloading the app onto your phone.

After you download the app, you'll see an option to reserve an invite and another option to view your place in line. When it's your turn, the app will send you a push notification to unlock all the features. Until then, the app's only real feature will be showing you a real-time view of the line, including the number of people in front of you and behind you.

The app was created by Orchestra — the startup behind the popular to-do list app of the same name — and has attracted plenty of attention thanks to a set of novel features, including the option to schedule incoming emails to be resent later when you have time to read them. The goal is to help users get their inbox to zero and keep it that way.


The reason for the staggered rollout is that the company is trying to ensure there are no server issues from thousands of people downloading and using the app all at once. Even before the app was released in the App Store, more than 250,000 people had signed off for a reservation to download it. Gentry Underwood, the CEO of Orchestra, told Mashable that the app's line-tracking feature is designed to ensure as much "transparency" in this process as possible while the app rolls out.

The Mailbox team won't say exactly how long users will have to wait to get the full app experience, but suffice it to say that if you are just reserving a spot in line now, it will probably be a little while. On the bright side, the app is currently free and according to Mailbox, the goal is to keep it free forever, though the company may add premium features down the road.

David Beckham joins PSG and plays for free

David Beckham has joined French Ligue 1 side Paris St-Germain and announced he will be playing for free.

The ex-England midfielder, 37, signed a five-month deal and said he would be donating his salary to charity.
"I'm excited, it's something we've been working on and talking about for quite a while," he said on Thursday.


"I won't receive any salary. My salary will go to a local children's charity. That's one of the things we are excited and proud to do."

He added: "It's something the guys [PSG management] do, but obviously it's a very good figure. That's one thing we're very excited about. To be able to give a huge sum to a children's charity in Paris is very special."
Beckham has been without a club since leaving MLS side LA Galaxy in December and has been training with Arsenal.

The former England captain had firm offers from 12 different clubs but has opted for Ligue 1's big spenders.
Despite recently announcing he was to permanently base his family in London, Beckham always said he would make a decision on his next move based on "footballing reasons".

PSG have spent more than £200m in the last 18 months, and are managed by Carlo Ancelotti - who was in charge of AC Milan during Beckham's loan spell there. They are also still in this season's Champions League and will face Spanish side Valencia in the last 16.


The Paris club are currently top of Ligue 1 and already have a squad that includes Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Thiago Silva, Lucas Moura and Ezequiel Lavezzi.

"I was lucky to work with Carlo and Leonardo [director of football] for a few months," Beckham said. "Carlo was one of the best managers I've played for so it's exciting on a number of levels.

"[Ibrahimovic] is one of the players I'm excited to play alongside. Ibra was someone I've watched for many years, in my early days playing for England against Sweden, and I always felt he could be one of the best players in the world.

"I watched a lot of games last year and a lot of games this season. There's a lot of talent in this team."
Beckham, who made a record 115 outfield appearances for England, was part of the Manchester United side that famously beat Bayern Munich to win the 1999 Champions League.

He left Old Trafford for Real Madrid in 2003, before agreeing his move to LA Galaxy in January 2007 and making his debut for the club in August in that year.

He attracted criticism from some Galaxy fans after agreeing loan moves to AC Milan in 2009 and 2010 which meant missing some of the MLS season.


And he brought an end to his five-and-a-half-year spell in the United States on 2 December after winning the MLS Cup for the second time.

At PSG, Beckham will be hoping to win a league title in a fourth country, having already enjoyed success at Manchester United and Real Madrid in Europe before moving to Major League Soccer.

Beckham had been close to joining PSG last January but opted to stay in California for one more season.
"I don't know if this will be my last contract," Beckham said.

"People have been speculating about that for a number of years, but I continue to play and sign contracts. I will see how I feel but I want to play as long as possible. My passion is football. It always has been. When I play football it is not about the biggest contract."

He also revealed that his sons Brooklyn, 13, Romeo, 10, and Cruz, seven, will stay in London to go to school along with his wife Victoria, 38, and their one-year-old daughter Harper.

Jailbreak iOS 6.1

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world.

Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Apple has released iOS 6.1, bringing several important updates, including a smarter Siri and additional LTE support. Google has added a detailed map of North Korea to its Google Maps service, and Twitter has started combating the flood of pornographic content uploaded to its video-sharing service Vine.


Released just yesterday, iOS 6.1 can be jailbroken via the program Redsn0w, but only in tethered mode and only for older iDevices.

As detailed by the Microsoft-focused tech site Redmond Pie, Redsn0w version 0.9.15b3 can jailbreak Apple's latest OS. The jailbreak requires that your device be tethered, meaning you'll have to connect it to your computer each time you restart it.

Further, the latest version of Redsn0w supports only older iDevices with an A4 chip or earlier. That means it'll work on devices like the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and 4th-gen iPod Touch but not on the iPhone 5 or the latest iPads or Touches.

However, an untethered jailbreak could kick off as soon as Super Bowl Sunday -- February 3 -- according to Redmond Pie. An iPhone Dev team known as evad3rs has been working on a full iOS 6.1 jailbreak.

The new jailbreak would be untethered, so there'd be no need to connect your iDevice to a PC. And it would support a host of newer devices, including the iPhone 5, the 4th-generation iPad, the iPad Mini, the latest iPod Touch models, and even the latest Apple TVs.

The evad3rs team has set up its own Twitter account and will likely offer up a tweet when the new jailbreak is ready for download.

Videos on Vine

Twitter's video sharing service, Vine, has instantly become the go-to place for memes and quirky, fun videos. One way to quickly check what's up on Vine is Just Vined, a simple but useful web service that displays the last 20 videos on Vine.

All of the videos are muted by default, but you can choose to un-mute any of them if you like.

The service is lacking any other options — we, for instance, would like to see an option for more or less videos displayed on the page — but it's still quite fun, and each refresh is guaranteed to net you at least one or two interesting clips.

Check it out over at justvined.com

Share Videos in Twitter

Twitter users may soon have a new way to share videos in their tweets.

Dick Costolo, the CEO of Twitter, tweeted on Wednesday morning about making steak tartare, but unlike the more than 5,000 other tweets Costolo has posted to date, this one featured something different: a short embedded video that was made with Vine, a small video-sharing startup that Twitter acquired in October.

If Costolo's tweet is any indication, it appears Twitter is planning to integrate Vine to allow users to embed short clips in their tweets in the same way that Twitter now lets users create and share Instagram-style photos in tweets.


The Financial Review reports hearing from sources that Twitter will add Vine integration in Australia in the "coming weeks," which will allow users to share 6-second videos in tweets.

Twitter declined to comment for this story at the moment.

Clean Your Facebook Profile

We've all been there. Your grandmother just joined Facebook, your boss sent you a friend request or you're applying for that dream job. Suddenly, you're scrambling to purge your profile of last night's pictures plus everything else you wouldn't want Grams to see.

Painstakingly filtering through your Timeline isn't going to cut it, but FaceWash makes it easier. Three Kent State University undergrads created a web app that cleans your profile of incriminating content to give you a "fresh face."

The app allows users to search the profile with a "dirty word" list, a precompiled set of offensive or distasteful terms. You can also input your own words, and the returned results are displayed in categories such as "links that you have liked" or comments.

When taken to the questionable content, users have the option to either delete or change privacy settings. Check out the video, above, for more.


Like most Facebook-compatible web apps, FaceWash asks for access to your basic information, email address, profile info and photos. The free app is ideal for professionals in the making, creators Camden Fullmer, Daniel Gur and David Steinberg say on their page.

"You spent the last four years being a college kid. And that's wonderful. But a lot can happen in four years, and Facebook never forgets," the site describes.

The students hope to add more features, reports the Los Angeles Times, giving the app the ability to search in other languages.

Unlocking Cellphones Will Be Illegal by Saturday in the US

The clock to unlock a new mobile phone is running out.

In October 2012, the Librarian of Congress, who determines exemptions to a strict anti-hacking law called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), decided that unlocking mobile phones would no longer be allowed. But the librarian provided a 90-day window during which people could still buy a phone and unlock it. That window closes on Jan. 26.

Unlocking a phone frees it from restrictions that keep the device from working on more than one carrier's network, allowing it run on other networks that use the same wireless standard. This can be useful to international travelers who need their phones to work on different networks. Other people just like the freedom of being able to switch carriers as they please.

The new rule against unlocking phones won't be a problem for everybody, though. For example, Verizon's iPhone 5 comes out of the box already unlocked, and AT&T will unlock a phone once it is out of contract.

You can also pay full-price for a phone, not the discounted price that comes with a two-year service contract, to receive the device unlocked from the get-go. Apple sells an unlocked iPhone 5 starting at $649, and Google sells its Nexus 4 unlocked for $300.


Advocacy group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) questions whether the DMCA has the right to determine who can unlock a phone. In an email to TechNewsDaily, EFF attorney Mitch Stoltz said, "Arguably, locking phone users into one carrier is not at all what the DMCA was meant to do. It's up to the courts to decide."

If you do buy a new phone and want to unlock it before the deadline, you must first ask your carrier if the company will unlock your phone for you. The DMCA only permits you to unlock your phone yourself once you've asked your carrier first.

(Note that unlocking is different from "jailbreaking," which opens the phone up for running additional software and remains legal for smartphones.)

Christopher S. Reed from the U.S. Copyright Office noted in an email to TechNewsDaily that "only a consumer, who is also the owner of the copy of software on the handset under the law, may unlock the handset."

But come Saturday, you'll have to break the law to unlock your phone. If you want to get in under the gun, you can search the Internet for the code to enter to unlock the phone or find a tool that will help you accomplish the task.

The change could crimp the style of carriers like T-Mobile, which have pushed "bring your own device" as an incentive for switching service providers. Such carriers promise savings in exchange for using your existing phone on their network.

T-Mobile has promoted this notion for iPhones, in particular, since the company is the only one of the big four U.S. carriers that doesn't sell the iPhone. The carrier goes so far as to feature ads displaying an open padlock, with an iPhone replacing the body of the lock. T-Mobile declined to comment.