Facebook's Gifts leverages your connections, scopes out Amazon.com

Facebook has jumped into the Holiday spirit by offering users the opportunity to buy gifts for their friends. Facebook has been toying with the Gifts idea for some time but seems to be pushing full steam ahead this holiday season at least in the US. Hoping to take on highly successful e-tailers like Amazon.com, the new feature leverages people's connections on the social network. If it is someone's birthday or anniversary you get the option to send them a gift for real. The options vary from iTunes gift certificates to Starbucks cards to more expensive items. No indication if this will spread to Canada or the rest of the world but if it works out, we might be doing our gift shopping on Facebook next holiday season. Would you consider shopping for gifts via Facebook?

Flickr offers 3 free months on Pro Accounts for the holidays

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

With all the recent falloout resulting from Instagram's ever wavering terms of service, Flickr has experienced a resurgence of sorts. A stunning new iOS app and Yahoo!'s renewal under CEO Marissa Meyer were just the beginning. Now Flickr is offering everyone 3 free months of free Pro Account service, go get it right now. Flickr will give unlimited uploads, the ability to post to 60 groups and many other features. 

Roam Mobility launches travel-focused Dual-SIM smartphone

Roam Mobility has been offering relief to Canadians who travel frequently to the US but who don't want to get dinged by our notorious cellular roaming fees. Roam Mobility's pre-paid SIM cards, mobile hotspots and smartphones can be loaded up with talk and text  credit beforehand and allow users to make calls and access data for a fraction of the price, as low as $3.00 a day for talk and text plans. Roam Mobility just announced a dual-SIM smartphone coming on December 15.

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3 Million iPads sold over the weekend, biggest weekend debut yet

Some pundits scoffed at the shorter than usual lines in front of the Apple Retail Stores claiming this as a sign that the demand for iPad mini was low. They forgot to  meintion that thte iPad mini sold out of preorders within days and even ran out of stock during the weekend in various stores in the US.

Apple today announced it has sold three million iPads in just three days since the launch of its new iPad mini and fourth generation iPad—double the previous first weekend milestone of 1.5 million Wi-Fi only models sold for the third generation iPad in March.

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