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Young told Bloomberg that Zappos customers were 13 times likelier to share an item they bought with friends on Pinterest than on Twitter, and 8 times likelier than on Facebook. But a post on Twitter generated far more revenue—$33.66 an order—than Facebook, at $2.08 an order, or Pinterest, at 75 cents an order.

More than a year after Google Inc. GOOG +0.91% removed the controversial Grooveshark music-streaming service from its app store for Android smartphones, the app was quietly reinstated Tuesday afternoon, despite ongoing copyright infringement lawsuits against the company.

The device will now be available in "amber brown" (pictured, left), "garnet red," "sapphire black," and titanium gray." To check out all the new colors, see the slideshow below. The phone maker stressed that availability of these colors will vary, depending on your country and carrier or retailer of choice.

In the days since Apple won a patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung and sought to ban a swath of Samsung smartphones, Gazelle.com has witnessed a change on its site. It says the number of Samsung devices being traded in has jumped by 50% over the past three days, leading to a 10% drop in the value of those devices traded in.

"The playground is open," the ad declares from beneath the Google search box. "The new $199 tablet from Google." And under the ad copy, the image of a partial Nexus 7 peeks up with its lone webcam eye out of a gap in a white surface.

HTC "has great skills in innovation and has the confidence to face legal lawsuits with Apple," the Digitimes report says, attributing those comments to Wang.

First reported by Mashable, the all-in-one systems will include a program called "S Launcher." This desktop application provides a crude replica of a Windows XP-era Luna-styled Start menu along with a settings app that provides access to settings that are equally found in Control Panel.

Following moves that began last October, when Google began allowing Google Apps users access to Google+, the company announced today several more features which are aimed at pushing Google-branded social experiences deeper into the business world. Specifically, the company is rolling out support for restricted sharing options, video meetings integrated with other Google products like Gmail, Calendar and Docs, and additional administrative controls within Google+ with today’s public launch of Google+’s enterprise offering.

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It’s pretty straightforward to get your personal analytics report: all you have to do is type “facebook report” into the standard Wolfram|Alpha website.

Apple on Friday filed an amended complaint with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, adding two versions each of the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note to its original claims of patent infringement against a number of Samsung smartphones and tablets.

The video shows how the new 4" Home Screen would look. The extra space would naturally allow for larger app folder sizes. Games and other apps would have to be modified to take advantage of the extra real estate. We imagined, however, that existing apps would be "letterboxed", simply leaving empty black space at the top and bottom of the larger screen. Apple used a similar approach when supporting iPhone apps on the iPad.

It's been a while since Apple last updated its pack-in earbuds; the current model with the in-line remote and mic came out in 2008, and the design of the buds themselves dates back to 2006. That may be about to change with this month's all-but-certain release of a new iPhone, however. Vietnamese site Tinhte, which has a reasonable track record of getting hold of pre-release products, has posted a video of some earphones with a striking new design allegedly bound for the new iPhone 5.

Microtargeting was at once less directly influential, and more fundamentally disruptive, than these analyses suggested. The most colorful commercial variables that appeared prominently in journalistic accounts of microtargeting — whether someone drank gin or drove a Subaru — were never of much value on their own. It was the combination of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of data points that offered value: algorithms could weigh previously imperceptible relationships among variables to predict political attitudes and behavior.

We've been told by multiple sources to expect a Lumia 820 that will include a 4.3-inch display, exchangeable covers, and a microSD card slot to boost storage. While the device will include a dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, and 8-megapixel camera, the 820 will be overshadowed by its larger sibling, the Lumia 920. The second of Nokia's Windows Phone 8 devices will include a 4.5-inch HD display, an 8-megapixel "PureView" camera and the usual unibody design found on the Lumia 800 and Lumia 900.

Apple on Tuesday sent out invites for an upcoming event happening in San Francisco on September 12, 2012. The invitation I received says the event will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts at 10:00 am.

In September 2011, I published the most troubling news so far, which paradoxically also got the least coverage in the press. I looked at all the gaming social networks on IOS - basically OpenFeint and its competitors - and found catastrophic mismanagement by nearly everyone. The vulnerabilities ranged from de-anonymization, to takeover of the user's gaming social network account, to the ability to completely take over the user's Facebook and Twitter accounts using just a UDID.

The AntiSec hacking group claims to have released a set of more than 1 million Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) obtained from breaching the FBI. The group claims to have over 12 million IDs, as well as personal information such as user names, device names, notification tokens, cell phone numbers and addresses.

For the first time since it launched last October, Apple's iPhone 4S was not the top selling smartphone in the U.S., as the newly released Samsung Galaxy S III took the top spot in the month of August.

Angry Birds Space, the most recent Angry Birds title from Rovio, has dropped to No. 47 on the top-grossing list in the U.S. iTunes App Store. To rebound from that weak spot, Rovio is launching its Bad Piggies game Sept. 27 on iOS (Apple iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch) and the Mac.

The FBI is aware of published reports alleging that an FBI laptop was compromised and private data regarding Apple UDIDs was exposed. At this time there is no evidence indicating that an FBI laptop was compromised or that the FBI either sought or obtained this data.

The UPEK Protector Suite, which was acquired by Melbourne, Florida-based Authentec two years ago, is marketed as a secure means for logging into Windows computers using an owner's unique fingerprint, rather than a user-memorized password. In reality, using the software makes users less secure than they otherwise would be. When activated, the software writes Windows account passwords to the registry and encrypts them with a key that is easy for hackers to retrieve. Once the key has been acquired, it takes seconds to decrypt the password.

Out of the 1.3M Android activations, 70k are just tablets, something that Schmidt acknowledged Google was late to embrace.

“We have not announced any tablets, but I think the opportunity is very clear,” Nokia CEO Stephen Elop told ABC News. “People today increasingly are looking for a common digital experience between their smartphone and tablet, with a PC, and with their gaming platform, and so there’s clearly an opportunity across there. This is something that we’re looking at very closely.”

The ultra-thin Droid Razr and the long-lasting Droid Razr Maxx were hit phones for Verizon Wireless, so it makes sense that Motorola Mobility would want to quickly follow up with them. Enter the Droid Razr HD and Droid Razr Maxx HD, which feature better specifications, a bigger, crisper display, and of course, better battery life. The phones, announced today at an event in New York, mark the first products unveiled by Motorola under parent Google, which acquired the company in May.

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