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Most of us are lazy in one way or another and one startup business is aiming to take advantage of that laziness, Shyp. Shyp is a service dedicated to packing up your items and shipping them for you for a nominal fee.

Yes, you read that right, MICROSOFT is extending their trade-in program and is offering cash for your gently used iPhone 4S and 5. Microsoft is looking to take your gently used iPhone 4s and 5 off your hands in their expanded trade in program. The Microsoft program is offering a minimum of $200 for these units but there is a catch - the funds you receive will come in the form of a Microsoft store credit rather than cash.

We're headed headlong in to the holiday season and the Wish app is about to become your best friend with their new gift giving option! The Wish app allows users to add items they want on to their wishlist so when the time comes for gift giving you aren't left with no ideas for that "hard to buy for" person on your list.

Nirvanix cloud storage services has officially announced the closing of their doors and pulled their website. Nirvanix cloud storage service is officially closing it's doors and they have placed a customer address on what was previously their website.

We talked about Steam earlier this week but today we're talking about them again as they unveil their awesome new joystick-less controller. The new Steam controller has no joysticks, rather it utilizes trackpads instead. The new controller also features much more accessible buttons than other controller options currently on the market.

HTC is selling its remaining stock in Beats Electronics but while to some this may be a sign of poor business for Beats, it's actually a sign of limited cash flow for HTC.

According to a recent Nielson Books study, electronics are beating out books in terms of what keeps our current generation busy, and this makes us sad. According to the Nielson Books study, children ages 0 - 17 years (we're not so sure about the 0) have an 8% increase in the amount of time they dedicate to electronic activities as opposed to reading.

Admit it, you knew it was coming, and now one Chinese tech website (DoNews.com) has revealed images of a possible gold iPad Mini. It should come as no surprise that Apple is anxious to pump out more gold colored gadgets with the incredible success of the gold iPhone 5C.

JumpCam is a new mobile app that allows for group collaboration to create a single video from multiple clips from multiple users. JumpCam launched today on iOS allows for as many as thirty friends to contribute ten second clips to a single video without having up upload those videos to a sharing service so the user can download them and stitch them together using a video editing software.

Have you been looking for a cheap way to create 3D printed materials? Well now SUNY Purchase College has released an affordable 3D printer called the Deltaprintr.