PayPal Canada launches "Mall Traffic Reports" on Twitter

This holiday season, PayPal Canada is introducing "mall traffic reports" on Twitter through @PayPalCA. The reports are an easy way for shoppers to share information about wait times, store lineups and congested parking lots by posting tweets or real time pictures, alerting others to the busiest shopping destinations using the hashtag #ESCTheMall.

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Adobe Lightroom 3.3 update now available

Adobe released an update to its popular Lightroom 3 photo management application. Lightroom 3.3  can be downloaded directly from Adobe's update page and offers additional camera support for several new camera models including the Canon PowerShot 95, Nikon D7000 and Olympus E-5.

Adobe Lightroom 3.3 retails for US$299 and requires Mac OS X 10.5.6 or later to install and run.

Nokia's N8 Camera School offers up online tips for better videos and pics

Got a new Nokia N8 Symbian smartphone? Check out some in depth how-tos and tips to learn how to make the most out of that 12 Megapixel camera with the awesome Carl Zeiss optics. Nokia's N8 Camera school is a great online resource that combines user comments and feature-specific tutorials that will teach you to get superb photos and videos.

Google taking its talents to the desktop with Chrome OS, Cr-48 notebook revealed

Now that Google has dominated the web search and advertising markets and expanded into a successful mobile OS strategy with Android OS, it is setting its sights on something bigger, The desktop.

Until now, the Chrome OS project was considered another funky exploration from the Google Labs. It was a big "what if scenario" that married the concept of cloud-computing and a web browser as the only components one would need for personal computing. Now out of the skunkworks and into the mainstream, the Chrome OS is being realized as a competitor to Windows, Mac and Linux.

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