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Eye-Fi Eyes a Fight Over Wireless SD Cards

Lauren Goode in Commerce on January 25 at 8:13 am PT

Would new standards for wireless SD cards offer more options to camera consumers, or just confuse them? Eye-Fi’s CEO says the latter is the case.

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Raspberry Pi, a Credit-Card-Sized Computer, Set to Launch

Lauren Goode in News on December 28, 2011 at 8:33 am PT

The Raspberry Pi, a credit-card sized computer that plugs directly into your TV via an HDMI input, is launching next month, following five years of research and development. Developed in the U.K. by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, the $35 version of the device runs Linux, has a 700MHZ ARM 11 processor and 256MB of RAM, and features the first-person multiplayer video game Quake 3 Arena; the $25 version has similar specs, but with 128MB of RAM. Videogame veteran David Braben, the brains behind the Pi, has been quoted as saying he originally created the Pi for educational use.

Yahoo Okays Initial Term Sheet to Sell Stakes Back to Asian Partners — While Also Hoping to Keep PE Firms in Fray

Kara Swisher in News on December 23, 2011 at 11:23 am PT

It’s on.

Google Confirms That Groupon COO Will Be Google's Margo Georgiadis

Kara Swisher in News on April 21, 2011 at 11:14 am PT

Margo Georgiadis, VP of Global Sales Operations at Google, will be COO of Groupon, Google confirmed. She is currently located in Chicago, where the social buying site is headquartered. Besides COO, BoomTown will officially bestow the title of “Chief Cat Wrangler” on her in recognition of the massive organizational job ahead of her at the notoriously chaotic start-up.

Wishing You a Jazzy Christmas

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 24, 2010 at 1:51 pm PT

A musical holiday greeting, suitable for tracking Santa’s progress.

Virtual Monday? How Holiday Shopping Has Included Intangibles.

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 3, 2010 at 11:06 am PT

Cyber Monday reached a record-breaking level this year with more than $1 billion dollars spent online, making it the heaviest U.S. online shopping day ever. And that includes the intangibles in our lives that you can’t touch or feel, and can’t ship in a box, like e-books and music and virtual goods.

Digital Cameras Improve Zooms, HD Function

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on November 9, 2010 at 2:26 pm PT

Katie compares digital cameras for potential buyers as they begin their search for gifts during the holiday season.

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Starbucks' Pay-By-App Test Grinds Away

Voices in News on October 25, 2010 at 11:13 am PT

Starbucks said today it was expanding its mobile-payment testing grounds to include 300 company-owned stores in the NYC-Long Island area. The system uses an app version of the Starbucks Card. The app displays a barcode that is read by the scanner at check-out. Testing of the app (available for the iPhone, the iPod touch and certain BlackBerrys) began late last year in Starbucks locations inside Target stores and a few outlets in Seattle and Northern California.

iPad 3G SIM-locked to Softbank in Japan

John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 10, 2010 at 4:59 am PT

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs first uncrated the iPad in January, he said the 3G version of the device would ship unlocked outside the United States so it could be used with any carrier willing to manufacture a GSM micro-SIM card for it. Today, this no longer appears to be the case–at least in Japan.

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