FreedomPop offering 1GB of free wireless data, hopes you?ll pay for more

The new freemium 4G service could be perfect for those wanting to dip their toes into the mobile data market

Sick of?paying out the nose for wireless data? Well, one enterprising startup may have an option for you:?FreedomPop, a wireless service set to roll out in July and September, wants to offer you 1GB worth of 4G WiMAX and?LTE wireless data service absolutely free.

The service operates on a "freemium" basis ? certain aspects, like the 1GB of data, are free.? If you go over the 1GB allotment, you will be charged a fee estimated to be in the range of 1 cent per megabyte. You can also pay for more data in advance, and features will exist where you can share some free data with other users.

FreedomPop will offer three different flavors of broadband: a USB dongle that allows you to connect your computer to the internet, a WiFi hotspot device, and an iPhone case that allows you to override the phone's existing network and use it as a FreedomPop hotspot. All three will require you pay a refundable deposit.

While FreedomPop isn't the first company to try a free wireless data model ? you can currently get?free service from NetZero ? they are the first to up the ante to offer 1GB for free. There are some major drawbacks, however. FreedomPop will be using?Clearwire's network, so the range of the free wireless service will be limited to the 70 major cities currently serviced. Still, if you're interested in giving the freemium service a whirl (and live in or near a major city), you can pre-register for FreedomPop?on their website.

FreedomPop via?NextBigFuture

This article was written by Fox Van Allen and originally appeared on Tecca

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Could the next bubble to burst be student loans?

The burden is big: U.S. college students borrowed $117 billion in federal student loans last year, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reported earlier this year that debt from student loans exceeds $1 trillion, surpassing credit card debt for the first time.

Tuition and fees at both public and private universities have been steadily increasing and some higher education institutions are cutting financial aid, reducing class offerings or even freezing enrollment at campuses because of state and federal funding shortfalls. California State University, for example, announced in March that it was not accepting new students at 15 of its 23 campuses for the spring 2013 semester and will wait-list all applicants the following Fall after a $750 million funding cut.

President Obama wants to overhaul the college education system and proposed a new financial aid program during his State of the Union address in January, saying higher education isn't a luxury. Rather, Obama says "It's an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford." In a recent speech at the University of Michigan, he told students that colleges were being put on notice. At the heart of the problem: "If you can't stop tuition from going up, then the funding you get from taxpayers each year will go down," he says.

According to an analysis by Moody's Analytics, student loans have grown "persistently at double digit-rates throughout the last decade" and "college costs have outpaced overall inflation by a significant margin." A new report by PNC Bank finds that students hold an average of $45,000 in student loan debt.

Robert Reich, a public policy professor at University of California Berkley and the labor secretary in the Clinton administration, says a four-degree would mean a 70 percent to 100 percent increase in salary compared to someone with just a high school diploma. Students would leave college with thousands of dollars in student loans, but the higher salary would make up for the monthly payments. However, now college students are "facing very dim employment prospects" and "people will be struggling with college costs" for a long time, Reich says in an interview with The Daily Ticker.

The plight of college grads has been well documented in the media. There are the Harvard-educated 22-year-olds who are working as Starbucks baristas. Or the liberal-arts grad taking a second unpaid internship. The Phi Beta Kappa member working in retail sales. There are similar stories like these around the country. Even for students lucky enough to find a full-time job after graduating, many are low paying and more often than not exclude previous guaranteed perks like health insurance or a 401k plan. The cost of student education has shifted to the federal government as students and families seek out additional scholarship aid to help pay more soaring college costs. Some families would take out second mortgages on their homes to pay for college tuition, but many families can no longer do that in the face of high unemployment, a weak housing market, tighter credit and an overall uncertain economic climate.

Pell Grants and Stafford loans, scholarship money awarded by the federal government to lower-income students, have not kept pace with the cost of tuition despite the Obama administration advocating for increases in the maximum Pell Grant award. Republicans, who have made unprecedented cuts to education in their budget proposals, have targeted federal education assistance for years. Federal education aid has "become a kind of political football," Reich says.

Online education, a growing trend that an increasing number of private and public institutions have embraced, could be one way to lower the burden of college costs for students. Technical schools are another point of interest: In Germany, students with a technical degree are making as much as students who have completed four years of higher education, Reich says.

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VoIP Supply Adds Revolabs FLX Wireless VoIP Conferencing Systems

VoIP Supply is pleased to announce the addition of innovative Revolabs FLX wireless VoIP conferencing systems. Revolabs is the premier audio solutions provider of wireless unified communications products for free-flowing workspaces uninhibited by cords.

The Revolabs FLX VoIP conference system is the only wireless IP conference phone available today. Used for both audio and video communications, the Revolabs FLX now benefits from Revolabs? revolutionary audio technology that was once reserved for the largest of conference rooms and board rooms. Now, with the FLX, small to medium-sized conference rooms, executive offices, or home offices can leverage the best audio quality with the freedom of wireless mobility.

Not your traditional conference phone, the Revolabs FLX system is a dual-purpose solution eliminating the need for a separate desktop and conference phone. The flexibility of the included wireless FLX dialer is not only used to set up a conference call but it acts just like a regular telephone handset for private calls before, during, or after a conference call.

The Revolabs FLX may be sleek and compact but unlike the small conference phones you?re used to, your group no longer has to huddle around the device or shout across the room to be heard on the other end. Instead, FLX users can enjoy a more natural conference room setting because with the FLX?s separate wireless components you have more freedom to place the speaker, dialer, and microphones where they make the most sense. The FLX comes standard with two interchangeable microphones in your choice of directional, omnidirectional, or a wearable model so that a presenter can move freely about the room.

The Revolabs FLX is also compatible with leading video conferencing system brands, is Bluetooth enabled for connection to your cell phone or computer, has an encrypted voice signal for secure calls, and the FLX system will not steal Wi-Fi bandwidth or interfere with other radio signals.

?Revolabs is bringing a whole new dimension to VoIP conferencing,? said Garrett Smith, Chief Marketing Officer at VoIP Supply. ?Adding the only wireless VoIP conference phone on the market with the Revolabs FLX allows VoIP Supply to provide so much more flexibility for audio and video project collaboration, webinars, Skype, and distance learning.?

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CS:GO Beta Update Released (GunGame!) - Darkly Gaming Network

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Early this morning Valve released a new update for CS:GO Beta. This update includes a new gameplay mode called Arms Race. This mode is pretty much the same as the GunGame mod from CS. There is a single extended round with instant respawn(think team deathmatch). All players start with the same weapon, they will recieve a new weapon each time they kill an enemy. After the player has successfully killed their enemies will all guns, they will be left with a knife. The first player to get a kill with all weapons will win the match.?

A new Arms Race map has also been released with this update, it is called Shoots and Baggage. Oldschool CS map?de_aztec has also been added for regular gameplay modes.

Three new weapons have been introduced in this beta update, they include the following:?

  • Scar 20 - CT only weapon
  • G3SG1 - Terrorist only weapon
  • Zeus x27 - Only available in casual mode, available to both teams

The full changelog can be seen below

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Release notes for 3/29

Maps:

? Added Arms Race maps ? Shoots and Baggage

? Added Aztec to Classic maps

Gameplay:

? Arsenal Arms Race game mode is a single extended round with instant respawn. All players start with the same weapon and get a new one each time they kill an enemy. The progression of unlocked weapons ends with the knife. The first player to get a kill with every weapon wins the match.

? Added ?Find A Game? to the Play options menu screen. Find A Game allows you to join an online game of a specific type. This update offers Arsenal Arms Race and Classic Competitive game modes. The map cycle groups include:

Classic Maps

Arms Race Maps

? Added new weapons:

Scar 20 ? CT only auto-sniper.

G3SG1 ? Terrorist only auto-sniper.

Zeus x27 ? Casual Mode only weapon available to both teams.

? Adjustments have been made to increase the base accuracy of all weapons.

? Jump and land penalties have been decreased, and the rate of stamina gain has been increased.

? Bot difficulty has been tuned.

? HE grenade damage has been adjusted per pro feedback.

Models

? Added two new player skins:

Phoenix Faction

GIGN

UI

? Death notice order reversed.

? Updated Italy mini map image.

Bug Fixes

? Fixed a bug in the keyboard + mouse options screen where changes were resetting.

? Fixed the consecutive loss bonus persisting through halftime. Solves the problem of teams receiving extra cash early in the second round of the match.

? Fixed end match scoreboard saying it was a tie in Arsenal Mode.

? Fixed a bug where penetrating shots were doing full damage after the penetration.

? Fixed a bug where the desired distance required to defuse the bomb wasn?t being used.

? Fix for the HUD alert panel coming up incorrectly.

? Fixed for bots not being able to defuse bomb.

? Fix for bug in Demolition mode where players would start the first round of the second half stuck in level geometry.

? Fix for radio message font appearing quite large at higher resolutions.

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Next step for Supreme Court on Obamacare: secret Friday vote

The justices meet to discuss the health-care bill on Friday.

While the rest of us have to wait until June, the justices of the Supreme Court will know the likely outcome of the historic health care case by the time they go home this weekend.

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After months of anticipation, thousands of pages of briefs and more than six hours of arguments, the justices will vote on the fate of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in under an hour Friday morning. They will meet in a wood-paneled conference room on the court's main floor. No one else will be present.

In the weeks after this meeting, individual votes can change. Even who wins can change, as the justices read each other's draft opinions and dissents.

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But Friday's vote, which each justice probably will record and many will keep for posterity, will be followed soon after by the assignment of a single justice to write a majority opinion, or in a case this complex, perhaps two or more justices to tackle different issues. That's where the hard work begins, with the clock ticking toward the end of the court's work in early summer.

The late William Rehnquist, who was chief justice for nearly 19 years, has written that the court's conference "is not a bull session in which off-the-cuff reactions are traded." Instead, he said, votes are cast, one by one in order of seniority.

The Friday conference also is not a debate, says Brian Fitzpatrick, a Vanderbilt University law professor who worked for Justice Antonin Scalia 10 years ago. There will be plenty of time for the back-and-forth in dueling opinions that could follow.

"There's not a whole lot of give and take at the conference. They say, 'This is how I'm going to vote' and give a few sentences," Fitzpatrick said.

It will be the first time the justices gather as a group to discuss the case. Even they do not always know in advance what the others are thinking when they enter the conference room adjacent to Chief Justice John Roberts' office.

By custom, they shake hands. Then Roberts will take his seat at the head of a rectangular table. Scalia, the longest serving among them, will be at the other end. The other seven justices also sit according to seniority, the four most junior on one side across from the other three.

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The uncertainty may be especially pronounced in this case, where the views of Roberts and Kennedy are likely to decide the outcome, Kerr said in an interview Thursday. "I don't think anyone knows. I'm not sure Justice Kennedy knows."

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