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Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Spring time has been the season of peace treaties in the tech world.  And that should be good for us consumers.  Apple and Qualcomm ended their long running patent battle…and among the results will be Qualcomm’s chips coming back to the iPhone.  And that will mean 5G coming soon for Apple loyalists.  The deal, was not good news for Intel.  In another truce…. Amazon and Google have ended their spat.  And that will bring YouTube apps back to Amazon’s Fire TV…and in return…the Prime Video app will be available on Chromecast and Android TV devices.  Not all disputes have vanished…Dish subscribers still have to turn else for HBO for instance.  No word on when or if…that will ever be resolved.

You can find us at Techstination.com.  I’m Fred Fishkin.

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Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  Instead of buying a new Mac computer…often a more affordable option is to upgrade.  Other World Computing has been helping Mac owners do that for years and now they are out with the  Aura Pro X2 internal NVME Flash SSD…that can add a lot of zip and storage…up to 2 terabytes…to many MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac Mini or Mac Pro models.  Product Marketing Manager A J Gerth…

“So we can increase the capacity as well as the performance and have a lower power draw.  So we’ve actually over the years been able to design better and better SSDs and this is the culmination of our expertise.”

With pricing starting at under 120 dollars for 240 gigabytes.  The 2 terabyte SSD comes in at under 700 dollars.

You can find us at Techstination.com.  I’m Fred Fishkin.

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 Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  T-Mobile wants to be more than your mobile phone company.  Not only is it branching out into home TV service…it is jumping into banking as well with T-Mobile Money.  T-Mobile’s Director of Marketing for Financial Services Tiffany Minor says the idea was to take some of the pain points out of personal checking…

“And so we created a no fee, no minimums, checking account paying 4 percent interest up to three thousand dollars and 1 percent thereafter for the everyday checking account and with an ATM network bigger than B of A, Chase or Wells.”

Through a partnership with Bank Mobile.  To get the higher interest rate, you do need to be a T-Mobile phone subscriber.  There’s more info at www.T-MobileMoney.com.

You can find us at Techstination.com.  I’m Fred Fishkin.