The eBay-owned business said it planned to launch the service in the US before April 2012.

Paypal's president, Scott Thompson, told the Bloomberg news agency that his firm would use its knowledge of its 103 million members' past purchases to tailor offers.

The move poses a challenge to the sector's two biggest players, Groupon and Livingsocial.

Daily deal businesses offer their members the chance to buy goods or services - from spa treatments and sushi to cheap flights and theatre tickets - at a steep discount.

When you try to remove a PC from the HomeGroup on Windows 7, you might receive error.

When you run the troubleshooter, you might receive the following problem:

Problems found: Peer Networking Grouping service isn't running

To solve this error, please do the following:

Delete the file:

idstore.sst

that is located in the following path:

%SystemRoot%\serviceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Roaming\PeerNetworking

When you paste this line in the RUN windows you might receive the Access Denied error.

Explorer is still the main tool most everyone uses to manage files, folders and devices on their system. As a result it's received a significant focus in Windows 8, with Microsoft aiming to improve its most common usage scenarios (such as copy, move and delete) while adding something that not everyone will be happy about: the Ribbon interface.

Microsoft's Ribbon interface, which first debuted with Office 2007, split users: on the one hand it makes it easier find and use functions; but on the other it's bulky, cluttered to look at, and requires users to learn a new tool.

Fortunately, Microsoft has listened. While the Ribbon is standard with Explorer, you can 'hide' it with a keyboard toggle. Undoubtedly once Windows 8 is released, the range of popular third-party tweak tools for Windows will find the right registry value and make a minimised Ribbon the default if you so choose.

The $99 HP TouchPad might be cheap, but it’s not necessarily a great deal. There is a very good reason why Hewlett Packard is practically giving them away, and it’s not because they want to give consumers a great deal. It’s because the TouchPad is a failed piece of hardware that did not have the specs behind it to make webOS shine. That same reason makes it a lackluster proposition when it comes to scoring a deal this holiday season.

It should be made clear that webOS was not the reason the TouchPad failed. Honestly, there was a lot of potential in the software. After seeing the demos run at CES last year, most people came away impressed and hopeful for a webOS-driven future. Sure, it needed some work but people thought that surely HP would be able to leverage the OS and make it something interesting. That sentiment, sadly enough, was dead wrong. It’s a shame really, but there is hope for fans of the operating system: HP has announced today that it’s open-sourcing webOS. This could mean some pretty interesting development from a crowd-sourced effort, but it’s no guarantee.

Intel is reportedly set to discontinue their LGA 1366 and LGA 1156 line of processors in 2012 to make way for new CPUs set to launch next year.

Processors reaching end-of-life status include the Core i7-930, i7-950, i7-960, i7-980 and i7-990X on the LGA 1366 platform. LGA 1156 chips getting the axe include the Pentium G6950 and G6960 as well as the Core i3-540, i5-650, i5-660, i5-670, i5-680, i7-860 and i7-870 parts.

Intel introduced the first Core i7 CPU requiring a Socket 1366 motherboard in November 2008. The power-hungry platform has represented Intel’s high-end desktop solution ever since, even surpassing the leaner Sandy Bridge models in terms of sheer performance. LGA 1366 was replaced by LGA 2011 on November 14, supporting Sandy Bridge E-series processors with four memory channels. LGA 2011 will also be backwards compatible with future Ivy Bridge E models.