[Note: Dwight is on vacation through this week. Technology Bytes host Peter Hughes will be handling the linkposts while he's out out.]
- Hospital calculates return on iPad investment at nine days - Forbes writer Dan Munro has an interesting piece telling the story of a hospital that deployed iPads and saw a return on investment in nine days.
- Zynga lays off 18% of mobile and social staff - The company cites stabilizing finances for the mass firing of 520 people
- Western Digital ships 7mm-thick 1TB 2.5-inch drive – Mmmm, skinny…
- D-Link boosts IP surveillance camera line with four new models – Always watching, always watching…
- Feedly promises raft of new features, integration with Reeder and other apps - Now that Feedly has taken in more than 500,000 Google Reader refugees, it’s unveiled a community-driven feature roadmap that’ll guide it for the rest of the year
- Atari dig aims to uncover infamous E.T. game cartridges - Supposedly, a stretch of land near Alamogordo, N.M., is the final resting place for one of the most infamous disasters in gaming history: the Atari E.T. game
- Tesla Motors Announces Fourth Car for Future Electric Vehicle Lineup - a small SUV and a lower-priced sedan could hit the streets as early as 2015
- E Ink Hopes New Display Will Help It Nab Share of Wearable Market Everyone Is Talking About - On Monday the company detailed a new 1.73-inch display aimed specifically at this market
- Acer Announces First 8-inch Windows 8 Tablet Priced at $379 - It’s the first, but it apparently won’t be the last.
- Microsoft could render Windows 8.1 more appealing to IT admins – Kind of odd that they waited until the .1 release to make more “business friendly”
- Google Glass’s first porn app pulled hours after release
- Malware That Drains Your Bank Account Thriving On Facebook - a six-year-old so-called Trojan horse program that drains bank accounts is alive and well on Facebook
- Inside Dell’s Scorched-Earth PC and Server Price-War Plan - price cuts that are intended, in one stroke, to force competitors to respond with profit-sapping price cuts of their own
- This Malicious Charger Can Hack Your iPhone - A group of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology claim they created an iPhone charger than can surreptitiously install malware on the Apple phone