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Big news in the mobile phone industry this week! According to the latest findings of the U.S. Library of Congress, if you’ve bought a mobile phone it’s yours to do with as you please – and that includes jailbreaking and adding applications to your phone not approved by the phone’s maker.

So what is jailbreaking? It’s simply the altering or unlocking of your cell phone’s code so that you can use it with any carrier (more…)

Facebook has announced that they will close their Gift Shop on August 1st. But their exit will not end party for others. The company made it clear in their announcement that third party gift applications such as Birthday Cards and Hallmark Social Calendar etc. will continue to work, and gifts received through their own application will continue to be visible on user profiles. (more…)

Google’s next move won’t help sour sales for Kindle, but it will make e-books more readily available to any customer with Web access. This summer the company plans to launch Google Editions, a platform for selling digital books that will also be available in a Web browser friendly format.

According to a New York Times report, the move will rescue independent bookstores that are being squelched out of the market by giants such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Google went directly to the American Booksellers Association, the trade group for independent bookstores, to hammer out the partnership which should also drive the adoption rate of its Google Checkout online payment system. (more…)