Dropbox Acquires Mailbox App and more In This Issue... Dropbox Acquires Mailbox App Google Will Package Chat Services, Rebrand as 'Babble' (Time-Limited) Deal Alert: Refurbished Apple iPad 4 With Verizon LTE Available for $500 Deal Alert: Get a $100 iTunes Gift Card for $80 from Best Buy.com IRIScan Mouse Controls Cursor and Scans Documents Use mPoints Apps and Get Rewards RadioShack Announces Price Cuts on Sprint Galaxy S III and iPhone 5 Now Samsung Announces Exynos 5 Octa to Hit Assembly Lines, Will Be Featured in New Generation Mobile Devices in "a Few Months" Lenovo Unveils Redesigned ThinkPad T431s Ultrabook, Due Out in April for $950 and Up LG Optimus L9 Gets Jelly Bean Update Search GadgeTell Dropbox Acquires Mailbox App This must be the year of mergers and acquisitions, especially in the tech industry. The latest take-over buzz comes from Dropbox. The file sharing giant just snatched up newbie Mailbox app for reportedly $100 million. "After spending time with Gentry, Scott, and the team, it became clear that their calling was the same as ours more » Continue reading Dropbox Acquires Mailbox App Related posts: Dropbox bug left accounts unprotected for nearly four hours Dropbox iOS App Update Brings New Photo Tab and More Dropbox releases version 1.0, now with Selective Sync, Extended Attribute Sync & more • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments •   Google Will Package Chat Services, Rebrand as 'Babble' According to report from Geek.com, Google is allegedly planning to unify all of their chat services and condense them down, naming the group 'Babble.' Currently, the company offers many different messaging services under many different names including: Google Talk, Voice, Hangout, Messenger and Google Chat for Drive. The article cites that "multiple sources" have confirmed more » Continue reading Google Will Package Chat Services, Rebrand as ‘Babble’ Related posts: Google chat now extended to Google+ circles Google adds file transfer to iGoogle/orkut chat, Gmail chat next 6rounds bringing video chat to Google Wave • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • (Time-Limited) Deal Alert: Refurbished Apple iPad 4 With Verizon LTE Available for $500 There is no doubt in our minds that Apple's fourth-generation 9.7-inch iPad is the most spectacular to date and almost certainly the best-ever conceived tablet. The only catch is that it doesn't exactly come cheap. At best, you can find one at $500 with 16 GB of on-board storage and Wi-Fi. If you also want 4G LTE… Continue reading (Time-Limited) Deal Alert: Refurbished Apple iPad 4 With Verizon LTE Available for $500 Related posts: Deal Alert: Micro Center Retail Stores Sell Apple’s iPad 3 Starting at $400 Apple is selling the 3rd generation iPad (refurbished) from $379 Deal Alert: Target Stores Selling Third-Generation Apple iPad for Just $399 • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments •   Deal Alert: Get a $100 iTunes Gift Card for $80 from Best Buy.com So there isn't really too much to say here. Quite simply: you pay $80, you get $100 worth of iTunes media downloads. Easy enough, right? iTunes is an online store powered by Apple and accessed through their iTunes music program. They offer downloadable, highest-quality music, movies, TV shows, games, apps and more. Users can access more » Continue reading Deal Alert: Get a $100 iTunes Gift Card for $80 from Best Buy.com Related posts: Coinstar to offer iTunes gift cards Apple updates iTunes to 10.5, brings iTunes in the Cloud Deal Alert: Best Buy Has Apple’s iPhone 5 Starting at $150, iPhone 4S Goes for $50 and Up • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • IRIScan Mouse Controls Cursor and Scans Documents There are lots of different document scanners out there and there even more different types of mice as well. But what about a mouse that scans? If this idea sounds like it can help streamline your daily computing duties, then look no further than the IRIScan Mouse & Scanner All-in-one from IRIS. This new type of mouse controls your PC cursor and… Continue reading IRIScan Mouse Controls Cursor and Scans Documents Related posts: DocuPen X-series: A pen scanner that scans at 600 dpi 3D Mouse Mycestro lets you Control your Cursor with a Wave of your Hand The Ring Mouse will cost you $70, controls applications wirelessly • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments •   Use mPoints Apps and Get Rewards Who doesn't like "free" money? How about free money just for using an app and doing the things you'd normally do? That's the idea behind mPoints. I discovered them when I downloaded the updated version of the Weather Channel app. I'd never heard of them before, but I'm always willing to try out something that can get me free Amazon credit. What are they and how do you get them? Basically, you get mPoints when you use an app. For example, in the Weather Channel app, you can get points by opening the app launching it through the widget watching videos viewing various map overlays And more. Some of the activities are definitely things you'd do every day… Continue reading Use mPoints Apps and Get Rewards Related posts: The Weather Channel Android App Gets a Major Redesign Amazon launches wish list, grapevine apps in Facebook TiVo will end their Rewards Program on May 28 • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • RadioShack Announces Price Cuts on Sprint Galaxy S III and iPhone 5 Now Make today "#NewPhoneDay" with help from the company who "has got answers" when "you've got questions." Starting on Monday, RadioShack customers can save up to $150 on new 2-year activations on three of the most popular smartphones on Sprint's wireless service. Up until April 4th, save $150 on Sprint's Samsung Galaxy SIII and $50 on more » Continue reading RadioShack Announces Price Cuts on Sprint Galaxy S III and iPhone 5 Now Related posts: Radio Shack announces AT&T iPhone 4/4S sale pricing, kicks off December 11th Radio Shack is offering the iPhone 4S with a $50 instant discount, available December 31st only Deal Alert: Save $25 on iPhone 5 at RadioShack • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • Samsung Announces Exynos 5 Octa to Hit Assembly Lines, Will Be Featured in New Generation Mobile Devices in "a Few Months" On Monday, Samsung announced that their latest collaborative project with ARM microprocessor manufacturer — the eight-core Exynos 5 Octa processing chip for mobile computer devices — will begin to enter production and soon be made available in upcoming mobile products. Announced at CES in January, the technology was specifically designed for handling multitasking efficiently and effectually. Likewise, the newest Exynos processor enhances powerful… Continue reading Samsung Announces Exynos 5 Octa to Hit Assembly Lines, Will Be Featured in New Generation Mobile Devices in “a Few Months” Related posts: Samsung & ARM big.LITTLE Exynos 5 Octa Processor Overview (Video) Samsung President Dr. Woo Announces New Processing Chip, Exonys 5 Octa Another Galaxy S4 Benchmark Emerges, Exynos 5 Octa CPU Back in the Cards • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • Lenovo Unveils Redesigned ThinkPad T431s Ultrabook, Due Out in April for $950 and Up There's plenty of room for growth and evolution in today's ultrabook market and Lenovo is one of the companies that seem to always be pushing the envelope. Last year's Thinkpad T430u and X1 Carbon have been two of the shiniest stars of the class of portable computers, but the new T431s still manages to raise the bar… Continue reading Lenovo Unveils Redesigned ThinkPad T431s Ultrabook, Due Out in April for $950 and Up Related posts: Lenovo ThinkPad Helix Launch Delayed for Spring (March or April) Lenovo unveils the 128GB SSD equipped ThinkPad X301 Lenovo ThinkPad E430 and E530 notebooks now available • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • LG Optimus L9 Gets Jelly Bean Update Earlier this month, we wrote about LG rolling out a Jelly Bean update to their Optimus G. Monday marks the company's next step in offering the latest Android OS to their Optimus smartphone lines; this time the good news is for their Optimus 4X HD, Optimus L7 (P760) and Optimus L9. The OTA update is more » Continue reading LG Optimus L9 Gets Jelly Bean Update Related posts: LG Optimus 4X HD, L9 & L7 to Get Android Jelly Bean Update Soon LG Optimus G Begins Seeing Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2 Update Apple to release the iPad in an additional 24 countries on March 23rd • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments •

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