Gadgetory

it's Thursday September 29th 2011 I'm molson Tang on cnet com and it's time to get loaded Amazon's new low-priced tablet has lit a fire under the competition prices of the blackberry playbook which the Kindle Fire is supposedly based on have already dropped by two hundred dollars at best buy with the 16 gig model starting at just two hundred ninety nine dollars the Kindle Fire shook up the tablet industry with its 199 dollar price tag but analysts say the low price means amazon is likely losing fifty dollars per device keep in mind though Amazon is counting on making money from media and other services it sells the next discounted tablet just might be something you buy off groupon to stay competitive the company is trying out the e-commerce game offering online deals for things such as electronics or kitchen wares it's not easy to find on the site but some groupon customers were notified of the deals by email a few of the first products include an iphone and ipad speaker dock an HDTV and a hair dryer earlier this week Facebook was in the news because it's cookies contract users even after they sign off well to us congressmen have requested the Federal Trade Commission investigate Facebook's tracking practices saying users should not be tracked without their permission for their part facebook says they have corrected three data collection cookies and did not save or use any of the data that was garnered from logged out users but Facebook reportedly still has the ability to track browsers after logout for safety and performance reasons you know how twitter has advertisements that can show up in your feed called promoted tweets and last week the sites started showing paid political ads well emarketer is projecting that twitter will make 130 9.5 million dollars this year in global ad revenue expect that number to grow as the company plans to launch self-service ad tools the same way Facebook does it's a grim news day for nokia the finnish company has announced it will be cutting 3,500 jobs and that's on top of the 4,000 it already cut in april layoffs the mobile phone maker is hoping to find success in the US by introducing a windows phone later this year instead of its legacy Symbian phones which are more popular outside of the US if that kind of news puts you in the mood for blues then we've got just the guitar for you launching tomorrow is the Gibson limited-edition Firebird X a guitar pack with computing power for example it has Robo head tuners an onboard multiprocessor that generates sounds and effects and it connects the pedals via bluetooth oh and the best part Gibson has opened it up to third party apps yes this guitar will have its own app store you just have to dish out more than five thousand dollars to jam on this collectible those are your headlines for today I'm Wilson tank for cnet.com and you've just been loaded