Facebook's Gifts leverages your connections, scopes out Amazon.com

Facebook has jumped into the Holiday spirit by offering users the opportunity to buy gifts for their friends. Facebook has been toying with the Gifts idea for some time but seems to be pushing full steam ahead this holiday season at least in the US. Hoping to take on highly successful e-tailers like Amazon.com, the new feature leverages people's connections on the social network. If it is someone's birthday or anniversary you get the option to send them a gift for real. The options vary from iTunes gift certificates to Starbucks cards to more expensive items. No indication if this will spread to Canada or the rest of the world but if it works out, we might be doing our gift shopping on Facebook next holiday season. Would you consider shopping for gifts via Facebook?

Flickr offers 3 free months on Pro Accounts for the holidays

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

With all the recent falloout resulting from Instagram's ever wavering terms of service, Flickr has experienced a resurgence of sorts. A stunning new iOS app and Yahoo!'s renewal under CEO Marissa Meyer were just the beginning. Now Flickr is offering everyone 3 free months of free Pro Account service, go get it right now. Flickr will give unlimited uploads, the ability to post to 60 groups and many other features. 

First Impressions of Google's ARM Chromebook

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Google's first ARM powered Chromebook, made by Samsung, is an intriguing new take at the personal cloud-connected notebook. Selling for $249 and available only in the US through online resellers like Amazon.com, Google says this is the Chromebook for everyone. Here  are my first impressions.

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Will RIM's first BlackBerry 10 device be called 'Z10'?

There's been another leak corresponding to the identity of the upcoming BlackBerry 10 all-touch smartphone expected to launch on January 30, 2013. An image from UnwiredView shows black and white variants of the device that's been leaked in various photo and video forms with the "New BlackBerry Z10" branding.

Aside from what the device looks like and some of the features of BlackBerry 10, little is known about the specifics of the new BlackBerry 10 hardware so there's still a lot of room for suprises come January 30th.

Source: UnderWired via Engadget