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Walmart is already crowing about Black Friday and we're only a couple of hours into the actual day itself. That's because depressingly, Black Friday has somehow subsumed Thanksgiving Thursday and become the Day That Spans Many Days. Oh well; at least they sold a huge boatload of tablets. Walmart puts its one day sales of those mobile computing devices at 1.4 million, and while it doesn't break down by brand or model, the company also cites the iPad mini as one of a short list of top-selling items.
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Detroit-based watchmaker Shinola is doing something pretty unique: hand-making watches in the United States, right down to the quartz movements contained within. The startup's founding team includes some who worked for Swiss movement maker Ronda previously, and they built the company by flying in high-tech watchmaking equipment from Europe, as well as experts to train their Detroit-based workforce in the fine art of assembling timepieces.
Lenovo manufactures a lot of notebooks, but the supremely thin ThinkPad X1 Carbon and Lenovo’s notebook/tablet hybrid, the IdeaPad Yoga 11S have achieved near-icon status. The IdeaPad Flex 14 takes design cues from both, resulting in a relatively slim, modestly priced 14-inch laptop.
The Flex 14’s display pivots 300 degrees so that you can operate it in tent mode or lay it keyboard-down on your desk to present it to someone sitting across from you. Unlike the Yoga, however, the Flex 14’s lid doesn’t flip all the way back to operate as a tablet. The Flex 14 echoes the X1 Carbon’s tapered form factor, but where that Ultrabook measures just 0.7 inches high at its thinnest edge, the Flex 14 is 0.85 inches. But then, the Flex 14 costs nearly $500 less.
ROBERT CARDINThe Flex 14’s Notebook Worldbench score of 278 is about what we expected for a notebook with these specs, but it’s slightly below what the comparably equipped Dell XPS 12 achieved (both machines use Intel’s Intel Core i5-4200U, but the Dell we tested had only 4GB of DDR3/1600 to the Lenovo’s 8). The Flex 14 delivered exceptionally good battery life of 7 hours and 38 minutes. And since it has a removable battery, you can carry a spare with you (provided you don't mind the additional weight) and double your productivity time.
Our review unit had a rather small SSD—just 128GB—so you’ll need to be picky about choosing the apps and media library additions you keep on hand. Given the limited space on the SSD, I wish Lenovo had been more careful with its pre-installed software choices. I particularly resented having a trial version of the PDF-creation app Nitro Pro as the only available program for opening the on-board user guide. Yes, the trial is free, but you get annoying nag windows urging you to buy, and after 30 days you’ll need to install Adobe’s free Acrobat Reader just to open the manual.
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Google's decision to share user data across Google services, revealed in an update to its policy back in March 2012, isn't strictly kosher with Dutch privacy law, the Dutch Data Protection Authority said Thursday. Google doesn't "properly inform users which personal data the company collects and combines, and for what purposes," according to a statement by the DPA issued via press release.
Amazon Japan has 
