More iPhone nano Rumors Resurface

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:01
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As early as last year rumors of an iPhone nano surfaced, and they were repeated in August of this year. They're baaaaack, this time prompted by a post on iDealsChina which purports to show an iPhone nano case.

iDealsChina says the above shows an XSKN case vs. a iPhone nano version of the XSKN case.
It is the same height as the just release Nano but wider and thicker and with the same iPhone 3G contours. It has 3 sensors, camera, ...


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Gaia Online Cuts 13% Of Staff Despite Claims Of Record Earnings

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 1:05
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Gaia Online, a social network/virtual world hybrid that includes one of the web's most popular forums, has laid off 36 employees, or around 20% 13% of its staff. Of those laid off, 16 were full time and 20 were contractors. From what we've heard the layoffs were unexpected by most affected employees - the site raised $11 million in July, and has been hiring employees as recently as a month ago. Update: Gaia has written a blog post on the layoffs stating that the headcount represents 13%, not 20%, though this may discount contracted ...


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Palm Gets In On The App Store Game, Launches Palm Software Store

Monday, December 15, 2008 23:56
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With Apple and Google's on-device application stores already peddling the wares and RIM's BlackBerry Application Center just around the corner, Palm's making an effort to not get left behind. This evening, Palm launched an official on-device application store for both Windows Mobile and Palm OS powered handsets. With "App Store", "Market", and "Application Center" all spoken for, Palm's going with "Software Store". With that, the store name tap is just about all dried up.


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SEC Gives Social Investing Site kaChing Green Light To Take On Mutual Funds

Monday, December 15, 2008 23:01
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Every social investing site wants to turn the insights of its trading members into financial products that people can actually link to their brokerage accounts. Finding the few brilliant stock pickers in the crowd and then letting everyone else follow their portfolios while taking a cut of the management fees is the business model. KaChing, which is the most popular investing application on Facebook, just took a major step in that direction by becoming a registered investment adviser with the SEC. Sometime in the second half of next year, it will allow its members to link ...


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