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Twitter retiring @EarlyBird Deals

Twitter retiring @EarlyBird Deals

Twitter Twitter’s COO, Dick Costolo announced that Twitter would be retiring its Early Bird advertising product, which partnered with retailers and e-commerce companies to offer discounted deals to Twitter users. “We had tremendous early success with it,” Costolo said, citing deals with Virgin America and Disney. “But it needs to be reworked or rethought.” Most of the deals offered [...]
Comparing iPad, PlayBook, Galaxy Tab and Streak

Comparing iPad, PlayBook, Galaxy Tab and Streak

Apple reinvented the Tablet computing landscape with its Tablet iPad, competition soon followed with Dell launching Streak, Samsung  joined the fray with Galaxy Tab, Blackberry became the latest entrant with its PlayBook tablet launched earlier this week. We bring you a feature comparison of these four models BlackBerry PlayBook Apple iPad Samsung Galaxy Tab Dell Streak Screen size 7 [...]
Kindle for the Web

Kindle for the Web

Kindle for the Web Amazon has announced ‘Kindle for the Web’ beta, which allows book samples and snippets to be read directly from a web browser without any Kindle software. Customers simply click the “Read first chapter FREE” button on a book product page on Amazon or on other websites, and the first chapter will open within the web page. Customers can change the font size [...]
Amazon to Launch Kindle App for New BlackBerry PlayBook

Amazon to Launch Kindle App for New BlackBerry PlayBook

Amazon has announced a  Kindle App for the new BlackBerry PlayBook which was announced yesterday. Amazon already has a Kindle app for BlackBerry, so it’s not surprising that it announced an app for BlackBerry Tablet. “When you buy a Kindle book, you can already read it on iPhone, iPad, Android, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, and of course on your Kindle, Kindle 3G, and Kindle DX,” said Dorothy [...]
Online Retailers to Offer Facebook Credits as Shopping Incentives

Online Retailers to Offer Facebook Credits as Shopping Incentives

Source : ifeelgoods.com If you are a regular user of Facebook Credit, soon you may not have to spend as much as you are normally do, thanks to e-tailers(online retailers) , who could offer the credits as shopping incentives. Ifeelgoods, an e-commerce promotions provider for online retailers, has integrated Facebook Credits into the online shopping experience, by which its e-tailer  clients can [...]
BlackBerry announces PlayBook Tablet

BlackBerry announces PlayBook Tablet

Blackberry PlayBook Tablet At the BlackBerry Developer Conference in San Francisco yesterday , Research In Motion’s CEO Mike Lazaridis announced the company’s new tablet named PlayBook. The Tablet PC will hit US stores early next year and  with rollouts after April  in the rest of the world. The PlayBook will run on  an OS created by the recently acquired QNX, it will be called BlackBerry [...]
Intel prices Core i5, i7 and Celeron mobile processors

Intel prices Core i5, i7 and Celeron mobile processors

Intel Core i7 Intel has updated its processor pricing list for mobile i5, i7 and Celeron processors.  Intel had released Core 1.33GHz i5-560UM (3M L2 cache, two cores, four threads, 32-nanometer), priced at US $250,  “UM” indicates ultralow power, and these chips typically go in ultrathin laptops and even tablets. The 2.66Hz i5-580M (3M L2 cache, two cores, four threads) is priced [...]
Apple releases iTunes 10.0.1, makes Ping more social

Apple releases iTunes 10.0.1, makes Ping more social

iTunes Apple released an update to its iTunes software with Apple iTunes 10.0.1 launching on Friday last week. The new releases mostly adds bug fixes and changes the way users share music  on Ping , it adds the ability to use Ping from within  iTunes library, instead of having to manually search out music tracks you already owned in the database of the iTunes Store. Apple lists the following change [...]
Facebook releases Page Browser to help with recommendations

Facebook releases Page Browser to help with recommendations

Facebook Page Browser Facebook has officially launched a new feature for helping users discover Facebook Pages, the tool is called “Page Browser,”and  was briefly available to users earlier this month. Page Browser suggestions are tailored based on pages users previously ‘Liked’, and following a new Page simply entails clicking on its icon. Users can search for the pages based on “Country” [...]
‘Facebook Isnt Working’ Twitter goes berserk

‘Facebook Isnt Working’ Twitter goes berserk

Twitter Facebook is down and Twitter users went into frenzy with people tweeting and re-tweeting, with “RETWEET IF YOUR FACEBOOK ISNT WORKING” leading the pack. There were the usual sarcastic, funny, insulting, philosophical, thought-provoking, angry tweets doing the rounds for ‘Facebook Isnt Working’. We bring you some of the gems! KourtneyJessica Facebook isnt working. [...]
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