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If you happen to be flying anywhere this holiday season, we here at Gadgetell have found a helpful website that will allow you to check up on the latest technology news while 30,000 feet in the sky. Folks over at MyMoneyBlog.com have posted some coupons to get free Wi-Fi while flying.
If you are flying Delta Airlines between now and the 31st, you can use the code DELTATRYGOGO
If you are flying Air Tran between now and the 31st, you can use the code AIRTRANTRYGOGO
And if you are flying American Airlines between now and the 31st, you can use the code AATRYGOGO
And if those don’t work, they provide 3 more codes you can try. They don’t say which specific airline you can use them for, but you can use them through the 7th of January.
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As an added bonus, if you are flying Virgin America, you can access the internet for free thanks to Google. So we expect to see some comments from the sky on this article. I know I’ll be flying this Christmas so I’ll leave one myself.
Well… if you were hoping to give a Nook as a present, you might be out of luck. More delays state that some people might not be getting their Nook’s by Christmas-time. For those who won’t get their Nook’s, they’ll get a nifty little certificate saying that they own one at least. So I guess you can wrap the certificate instead of the Nook…
But to compensate you for their incompetence, Barns and Noble will send you a $100 Barnes & Noble Online Gift Certificate if you don’t receive a Nook by Christmas. Plus, they say that you will receive your Nook by the 29th. Now, how much we can really trust that date is up for debate but we can hope I guess.
So, you’ll get to disappoint your friends and family slightly less with a wrapped Nook Certificate this Christmas. And you can even use that $100 to buy some eBooks for them as well… even though they can’t really read them till the 29th. Merry Christmas?
Can’t wait for Android 2.1 but don’t want to risk it with the questionable ROM that was offered before? Well now Greek35T over at AllDroid has a Christmas present for you. They have a stable version of Android 2.1 for you to play around with. And word on the street is that it is “super fast.” So if you get stuck with socks and underwear for Christmas, at least you have this to look forward to between “Thank-you"s.
Heres a video of the 2.1 ROM in action.
On a safety note, Greek recommends (and we here do as well) that you get a microSD-card reader for your phone so you can back it up in case anything goes wrong. And if you don’t want to risk it, word on the street is that some phones will be getting 2.1 in the first half of 2010 so no worries.
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File this under rumor, Google is looking into acquiring Yelp, the social recommendation site popular for restaurants. It is said Google will pay near $500 million for the company to get its hands in local advertising. Try as it may, Google has yet to strike gold in local online advertising.
Last month, Google paid $450 million for AdMob, a mobile ad network. Yelp has $30 million in revenue and forecasts $50 million next and was created by folks who started PayPal. Google looks to be paying a big premium for a company many feel are built on fake reviews and strong-arm sales tactics.
From a post I wrote back in February of this year: “New allegations surfaced from a San Francisco area newspaper claiming Yelp is suppressing bad reviews of establishments in exchange for advertising revenue. The allegations are by nine businesses who claim they are contacted regularly to move bad reviews as part of their advertising budget. “
Is this what Google wants to get into? Whether to augment their local search efforts, where they recently sent out decals to merchants that feature a special barcode users can scan to get special coupons and reviews of establishments or to provide the backbone for mobile advertising in their free GPS navigation system.
If you happen to be flying anywhere this holiday season, we here at Gadgetell have found a helpful website that will allow you to check up on the latest technology news while 30,000 feet in the sky. Folks over at MyMoneyBlog.com have posted some coupons to get free Wi-Fi while flying.
File this under rumor, Google is looking into acquiring Yelp, the social recommendation site popular for restaurants. It is said Google will pay near $500 million for the company to get its hands in local advertising. Try as it may, Google has yet to strike gold in local online advertising. 
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