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 | Facebook buys mobile e-commerce app Karma |
The mobile gift-giving app Karma announced Friday it has been acquired by Facebook. The announcement came shortly after the markets closed on Facebook's first day as a publicly traded company. | |
| ITC bans import of infringing Motorola Android devices |
The U.S. International Trade Commission issued an import ban Friday on any Android devices from Motorola that infringe one of Microsoft's patents. | |
| The Jot Flip stylus/pen combo gets the pen right |
The latest addition to Adonit's family of disc styluses for iOS devices, the Jot Flip seeks to fill the 2-in-1--stylus combined with pen--niche treasured by those still chained to paper and pen. And while the problems I've had with the Jot line in the past are still present in the Flip, it largely succeeds in conquering the 2-in-1 challenges. | |
| HP's layoff plans and what they mean |
HP is expected to announce a large layoff at its quarterly investors briefing on Wednesday, losing as many as 30,000 employees. But for now, the company isn't talking about its plans. | |
| Update: Facebook IPO stumbles out of the gate |
Facebook's IPO got off to a shaky start as its share price ended the first day of trading with small gains. | |
| Twitter jumps on Do Not Track bandwagon |
Twitter has announced support for "Do Not Track," immediately implementing it to halt online tracking of users who trigger a setting in their browsers. | |
| Ask the iTunes Guy: Syncing tips |
[Ask the iTunes Guy is a regular column in which we answer your questions on everything iTunes related. If there's something you'd like to know, send an email to the iTunes Guy for consideration.] | |
| Mercury Accelsior SSD an impressive PCIe card upgrade for Mac Pro |
With the arrival of the Mercury Accelsior PCI Express SSD, OWC claims to have the only Mac bootable PCIe solid state drive currently on the market. The Mercury Accelsior comes in four different size configurations, 120GB, 240GB, 480GB, and 960GB, and will set you back $360, $530, $950, or $2080, respectively. Despite its relatively high price point, the Accelsior's performance is among the best SSDs we've seen, and its ability to upgrade capacity as needed is definitely a plus. | |
| Microsoft reprises free Xbox back-to-school PC promo |
Microsoft will repeat last year's back-to-school promotion, kicking off the deal Sunday with an offer of a free Xbox 360 game console to eligible U.S. students who buy a new Windows 7 PC. | |
| Android in enterprises 'severely limited' by weak management support from Google |
Adoption of Android devices in large businesses has been 'severely limited' because of the complexities of managing the wide variety of Android models and versions, according to research firm Gartner. | |
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