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Look like Republic Wireless won’t be the only mobile carrier operating on the Sprint network offering $19 unlimited cell phone service. However, Voyager, which is launching tomorrow is only offering unlimited talk and text at that price. Higher price plans will include mobile web as well. Check it out for yourself at the link below for the new prepaid carrier.

http://mobile.voyagertelecom.com/

If you’re in the market for a new computer, you may want to hold your trigger a little longer. Just like previous Windows releases, Microsoft is offering new buyers of computer with Window 7 a discounted upgrade to Window 8 once it is released. However, to get the deal, you must purchase a new Window 7 computer after June 2nd, 2012. So if you purchase it after that day, you’ll receive a coupon for upgrade to Window 8 after it is released. The cost of the upgrade is $15, significantly less than what you would pay at retail.

Source: Gizmodo

If you’ve been reading our columns regularly, you know we’re big advocates for keeping your old cell phones out of landfill and make some cash along the way. Traditionally, we recommend selling your old phone on Ebay. Most of the time, you can get a higher price if you allow oversea buyers.
However, new safety rules may change where you can now ship your old phones and gadgets. Starting May 16th, The United States Postal Service (USPS) will no longer ship any electronics with Lithium Ion batteries overseas. So you’re selling your phone internationally, you may need to use a more expensive carrier such as UPS or FedEx. So keep that in mind the next time you list your old gadgets for sale on Ebay.

Source: Cnet

FreedomPop, the free WiMax service from the creator of Skype have just been spotted in the wild. The video below shows real life performance and functionality of the add-on case for your iPhone. Overall, not bad at all, faster than AT&T but you’re limited to 500MB free data usage a month, any additional MB will cost a penny/mb.

Source: TechCrunch

We love our Xbox. In addition to being a gaming machine, it serves as a great media playback machine for NetFlix. Now Microsoft is about to blow out the competition in both the gaming and Smart TV space. From now until when they decide to end it, you can pick up a brand new Xbox 360 Slim with 4GB of storage along with the Kinect sensor controller for only $99.

There is only two catches:

• One, you must print out the coupon and bring it to a Microsoft Store. Which there are a few across the United States
• Two, you must sign up for two years of Xbox Live online service for $14.99 a month

If you don’t fulfill your obligations, you’ll have to pay an early termination fee. Basically, you’re purchasing the machine on the Cell Phone finance model. Low upfront cost subsidized by a monthly fee. Still, it’s a great deal if you don’t have a Xbox 360 already.

Xbox Coupon  

If you love Frappuccino, you should love the the Starbucks Happy Hour running next two weeks. Half price Frappuccino during 3-5PM each day.

We generally have a good feelings toward the whole car sharing programs such as RelayRides and other similar programs. However, the one thing that prevents us from putting our own vehicles into the service is the murky legal situations the program poses. What happens if someone who borrows your car get into a fatal accident?

Well, wonder no more. A RelayRide customer has actually been involved in a fatal accident. Now the courts are slowly figuring the murky responsibilities for all involved. If the car owner end up holding the bag, you can kiss car sharing programs goodbye as owners move in mass to get out of the program. There is no resolution yet but We’re sure everyone is watching closely. You can read the full story below.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/14/your-money/relayrides-accident-raises-questions-on-liabilities-of-car-sharing.html

American Express has other prepaid cards in the marketplace but today they launched a new prepaid card that may just break the mold and make it a worthwhile one to have in your wallet. This card called Serve is aimed squarely at the Paypal and Square crowd. In addition to giving you a physical card you can use to make purchase anywhere American Express is accepted, you can also use the iPhone or Android app to directly transfer funds to other Serve users for free. For example, if you went out for dinner, if everyone had serve, you can request funds from them and have the money automatically deposited into your serve account.

The card doesn’t have any monthly fees and you can transfer funds to it fee free by linking it to your checking account. Plus, you can even create sub-accounts for other family members (Over the age of 13) and control their spending using the budget feature. This makes a perfect case for modern way to dispense allowance money and they can use the serve card to shop online. More information at the serve.com website.

www.serve.com

For the procrastinators who still haven’t done their taxes or missed the free Turbo Tax offer on Android tablets, today’s deal should be a good way to catch up. Google Offers, Google’s clone of Groupon, is offering the downloadable version of H&R Block Deluxe software for only $22. That’s less than 50% of the price at retail and it includes the State edition for doing state taxes. This add-on usually cost another $$25 at retail upgrades.

So if you need to do your taxes before the deadline on your computer, this may just be the deal for you.

https://www.google.com/offers/home?utm_source=google-offers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-offer#!details/db0a8a36771f7cd9/QHSK7IFSJMULSXKJ

Here is a sweet deal for those who still haven’t done their tax yet. Intuit, the maker of Turbo Tax is offering all Android tablet users free use of their Turbo Tax Deluxe software, which includes the states tax portion, for free in you download the software and start your tax before Monday April 1st. So move fast, this usually cost $70 at retail price.

If you have an Android tablet, now is a good time to put it to use and get free tax software.

Via Engadget

Google Play: Turbo Tax