Reporters’ Roundtable: Checking in with Facebook and Foursquare

The money people in tech love check-in companies. VCs are funneling funds into Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and other apps that let users check-in and then broadcast their locations to friends and businesses. Why? On the Roundtable today we discuss these start-ups, as well as Facebook’s entry into this market, with Claire Cain Miller of the

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Verizon adds pre-owned Motorola Droid X product listing, would be $149.99 if they were in-stock

Section: Communications, Cellular Providers, Smartphones, Mobile

Those looking to make a purchase direct with Verizon and save a few bucks as compared to the regular 9.99 purchase price of the Droid X can now opt to go pre-owned. Yup, Verizon is now offering (still with a two-year agreement), the Droid X for 9.99. Granted, as of

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Samsung finally makes the Galaxy Tab official

Section: Gadgets / Other

It’s never been much of a secret, but now it’s finally official: Samsung has announced the Galaxy Tab, and has confirmed the final specs.  The announcement happened at IFA in Berlin, so we haven’t had a chance to actually touch it yet, but we at least have final specs.

The Galaxy Tab is

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Android black hat app story was bogus!

Android users can relax again, in the knowledge that the Android OS is just as safe today as ever; despite yesterday’s incorrect reports of a malicious app that was on millions of Android users devices!

Yesterday, the blogosphere was full of stories about an Android wallpaper app, which was reportedly collecting sensitive user data and

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Nvidia’s new graphics chips will give you laptops with long battery life and 3D

Nvidia is announced today a new family of laptop graphics chips that will balance good 3D performance and battery life. The new Nvidia GeForce 400M series of graphics chips will be used in a number of new notebook computers coming from major computer makers including Acer, Asus, Dell, Lenovo, Samsung and Toshiba.

Those computer makers will

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