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The app store model, pioneered by companies like Handango and popularized by Apple, has become the preferred method for distributing software on everything from desktops to post-PC devices. We're also seeing this model in the cloud, mostly through software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers, such as the Google Apps Marketplace. But what's been missing so far is a platform-as-a-service that allows you to add components through an app store interface.

Most tours of Chinese factories at least give workers a heads-up that they'll be on camera. Not so the exposé that HP inadvertently gave one of its Swedish customers. Reddit user Malplace opened a new laptop to find that a 3-minute webcam vide...

Photo credit: TechSpot Corsair's Vengeance M60 Performance FPS Gaming Mouse is currently being offered for just $39.99 shipped, originally priced at $69.99. This mouse enables you to "change sensitivity with just the touch of a button so you ca...

At first glance, this may look like reflections from a giant mirror, or a CG-rendered image, but in reality, it's actually the Salar de Uyuni. Currently the world's largest salt flatland (4086-square-miles), each year it gets covered in a thin la...

HTC dampened a few spirits when it dropped the Desire HD from its Android 4.0 upgrade list. The company might feel your pain, but it claims to have a good reason for denying the update that it's been doling out elsewhere. There's no way to shoehorn a...

It won't be long until students are back in school, cramming away, and what better way to kick things off than by showing a few quick and easy ways to fail an exam. We highly do not recommend trying any of these answers yourself, that is unless, ...

There's one thing you shouldn't do with old video game cartridges as well as consoles, and that's turning them into extremely heavy costumes, complete with weapons. We're guessing that the guy wearing two N64 consoles has at least a 30-pound load...

Image / story credit: Tom Rose We're not saying that this mysterious horseshoe-shaped flying object is piloted by extraterrestrials, but it's definitely something you don't see everyday. It was spotted in the Busan area of South Korea two-days ...

Investors demand more revenue from Facebook, and Sheryl's got just the APIs to give it to them. Over the last two days, three major ads tech partners have revamped their products with recently released Facebook APIs that allow brands to track and optimize for on-site conversions including app installs, buy home page ads and logout page takeovers, and target ads specifically to mobile. The new capabilities in tools from Buddy Media, Nanigans, and BLiNQ Media (who just updated today) will attract ad dollars from app developers, huge brands, and local businesses. That means more revenue for these Ads API providers and more revenue for Facebook, which it needs  to rescue its share price, down 11.7% today.

If you thought being Batman was expensive, think again. Attempting to replicate the life of Tony Star as Iron Man is even more expensive, and it exceeds the $1.5-billion mark, thanks to the suit, technology, and of course, the cars. Continue read...