Like dogs, smartphones grow to reflect their owners – if those owners are savvy enough. Sprint’s new Sprint ID service offers users its American customers curated “packs” of apps, widgets and themes – from employers, brands, sports teams and more – for simple smartphone personalisation. More »
No one likes uninstalling bloatware, trialware and craplets from their freshly unboxed PCs. Microsoft finally acknowledges this by skipping the unnecessary third-party software in Microsoft retail store PCs. That’s truly great, but they should do a little more than that. More »
Sony’s bloatware-nuking “Fresh Start” option gets a little bit better every day. Originally, it cost US$50 and was only available on their businessy TZ2000. Then it got free. Now Sony says it’ll be available for every computer Vaio TZ by the end of the summer. Hey, maybe next they’ll make it the default. Oh yeah, not a chance. [Pocketables]
We all know that bloatware, the crappy, useless software that computer manufacturers load up their new computers with, sucks. It clogs up the pipes and makes your brand new computer run slower right out of the box. Well, Sony feels you. That’s why in the US it’s offering a new “Fresh Start” option that wipes all the bloatware from a new computer. And they’re so generous, they’ll only charge you US$50 to not have all that garbage on there. Boy howdy, thanks Sony! It’s only available on the TZ2000 so far, but I’m sure Sony’ll be willing to take your money to not install software on your new computer for many more models in the near future. [Engadget]
