Author Archives: Christina DesMarais

About Christina DesMarais:

Christina DesMarais is a contributor for Inc.com and particularly enjoys writing about how technology can support the small business. Follow her tweets at twitter.com/salubriousdish. She lives in Minneapolis.

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Thanksgiving Google Doodle Featured Easter Eggs

Google posted a Thanksgiving-themed Doodle on its home page on Tuesday which ran through Thanksgiving. The interactive art let visitors craft their own unique turkeys and even laid eggs. READ MORE »

Which Should You Buy: Apple iPad or Amazon Kindle Fire?

Black Friday is here and shoppers are out buying gadgets like crazy. Many of them are looking for tablets and some are deciding whether it’s going to be an iPad under the tree or another brand. While the Kindle Fire can’t beat the iPad on many levels, it can when it comes to price. That fact has many people wondering if they can save a couple hundred bucks and get the Fire instead. READ MORE »

Adobe’s Flash for Android 4.0 Will Be the Last

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus was recently released in the U.K. and since then has been hailed by the tech media as being the best Android phone ever. Since it’s the first Android phone to ship with Android 4.0, which is also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, it didn’t take people long to figure out it came without Flash onboard. READ MORE »

Ebay Has an $80 Million Hunch

Ebay has acquired New York based startup Hunch for about $80 million, reports Uncrunched. The Hunch recommendation technology will be used by Ebay to revamp its own e-commerce recommendatio READ MORE »

Samsung Galaxy Nexus Called ‘Best Android Phone’ Yet

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is the first smartphone with the latest Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) operating system, and according to Mashable’s Charlie White, it’s the best Android phone yet. READ MORE »

Microsoft Looks for New Ways to Use Kinect

If you have a Microsoft Kinect and a good idea for a new way to use it, you might be able to turn it into a business. Microsoft has announced a program that will help ten people launch businesses around products for Kinect, the controller that senses motion and voice. READ MORE »

Analyst Says Amazon Is Entering Smartphone Business

Amazon is broadening its business to include not just electronic reading devices and tablet computers like the just-released Kindle Fire, but also handheld smartphones, according to Mark Mahaney, an analyst at Citi. READ MORE »

Survey Says iPhone Unseats BlackBerry for Business

More businesspeople are now using iPhones than BlackBerry smart phones. That’s according to an iPass survey of more than 2,300 enterprise workers for its latest quarterly Mobile Workforce Report. iPass found the iPhone is being used by 45% of the business crowd—that’s up from 31% last year. READ MORE »

Broodr is Like Etsy for Geeks

Right in time for the holiday shopping season I stumbled upon Broodr.com, where you can buy things like an “awesomely retro” 8-Track stereo that has been “upcycled” to play music from an iPod, a brass and rosewood iPhone case, or a Star Wars Yoda door mat that says “Welcome you are.” READ MORE »

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Thanksgiving Google Doodle Featured Easter Eggs

Which Should You Buy: Apple iPad or Amazon Kindle Fire?

Adobe’s Flash for Android 4.0 Will Be the Last

Ebay Has an $80 Million Hunch

Samsung Galaxy Nexus Called ‘Best Android Phone’ Yet

Microsoft Looks for New Ways to Use Kinect

Analyst Says Amazon Is Entering Smartphone Business

Survey Says iPhone Unseats BlackBerry for Business

Broodr is Like Etsy for Geeks

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