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TripSketch Launches 9 Green Travel Guides for Asian Users

TripSketch offers a green travel guide for Asian destinations, providing users eco-friendly advice on travel.

In this Tuesday, April 24, 2012 photo, school girls walk past a Nintendo 3DS advertisement poster in Tokyo. Nintendo Co. said Thursday, April 26, it sank into a 43.2 billion yen ($533 million) loss for the fiscal year just ended as weak sales of the Wii home console and the strong yen eroded earnings. Kyoto-based Nintendo, once the star of video games with franchises like Pokemon and Super Mario, has seen its glory fade with the advent of smartphones that are wooing away casual gamers. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Nintendo Reports 1st Annual Loss With Weak Wii Sales

Nintendo, once the star of video games with franchises like Pokemon and Super Mario, has seen its glory fade with smartphones wooing away casual gamers.

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Fooducate Turns Your Smartphone Into a Nutritionist, Now Supports Android Ice Cream Sandwich

Fooducate is an app that turns smartphone cameras into barcode scanners, and explains the secrets behind food ingredients, leading to healthier eating habits.

Apple CEO Tim Cook announces the new iPad in this March 2012 file photo. Cook says hybrid tablets are akin to combining refrigerators and toasters. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Apple CEO Tim Cook Rejects Idea of Laptop-Tablet Hybrid

Apple CEO says the idea of combining the iPad and MacBook Air would “wind up compromising” both, and compares it to combining a refrigerator and toaster.

In this Sept. 28, 2011 file photo, the Kindle Fire is displayed at a news conference, in New York. Apple has successfully fended off competitors who have tried to sell tablets in iPad's size range. But last year, Amazon.com Inc. figured out how to crack Apple's stranglehold on tablets by making a half-size, no-frills tablet. The result was the Kindle Fire, which sells for $199 -basically, the cost of production. Amazon has sold millions of them. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

New iPad Mini Rumors Surface, Saying Samsung is Supplying 7-Inch Screens to Apple

Rumors of a smaller iPad, or iPad mini are circulating again, with sources claiming Apple has ordered Samsung screens that are 7.86 inches diagonal.

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Negotiated Instagram Deal Single-Handedly

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly handled the $1B Instagram acquisition deal single-handedly, only telling the Facebook board after the deal was done.

MoVend WP7 application development contest, in partnership with Nokia. Over $2000 in prizes and signing up is free.

MoVend Launches WP7 Challenge

Movend teams up with Nokia in a contest for developers of WP7 payment applications.

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Zuckerberg Buys Photo App Instagram For $1B

Facebook acquires iOS and Android photo sharing app Instagram for $1 billion, promises to keep everything intact and give the company independence.

Apple's latest iDevice is hot, hot, hot!

iHotPlate is the Latest iDevice From Apple

Apple’s latest iDevice launching April 1st is hot, hot, hot!

Apple has announced double profits in its first fiscal quarter of 2012.

Apple Offers iPad Refunds in Australia Over 4G

US technology firm Apple has offered to refund Australian customers who felt misled about the 4G capabilities of the new iPad. The country’s consumer watchdog has taken Apple to court for false advertising…

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