On Tuesday, T-Mobile announced a special, one-day sale to celebrate Valentine's Day in which all 4G smartphones will be free with a new two-year contract.

T-Mobile's senior vice president of marketing John Clelland said:

“T-Mobile has a commitment to make the 4G experience affordable and accessible to everyone, so this sweet deal on smartphones and tablets is our Valentine’s gift to consumers."

The wireless carrier is offering the Samsung Galaxy S II, BlackBerry Bold 9900, HTC Amaze 4G, Lumia 710, SpringBoard tablet, and other 4G devices, for free with a new two-year contract. The one-day sale will be on Saturday, February 11.

While L'Oreal announced last week that they'd be shutting down their remaining hair products factory in Solon, Ohio, this week brings better news for the city. Nestle USA announced on Monday that it had decided to move their Hot Pockets and Lean Pockets business teams from Colorado to Solon, which will create new job openings for the Northeast Ohio region.

It is not yet known just how many jobs the relocation will bring to the area, as it is dependent on how many of the 70 or so Nestle employees from Englewood, Colo., will make the decision to move to Ohio.

Some of the positions will be consolidated, and "way more than half" of the team, which includes positions in marketing, finance, and product development, has been invited to transfer to Solon.

Nestle Prepared Foods Co. of Solon also oversees Stouffer's and Lean Cuisine frozen meals, Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough and baking ingredients, Libby's 100-percent Pure Pumpkin, Nestle Carnation milks, and Buitoni refrigerated pastas and sauces.

Cosmetics company L'Oreal has revealed plans to shut down its Solon plant by the end of 2013, which will in turn leave 260 employees without jobs.

The plant has been a major employer in Solon since 1980, when Arthur and Sydell Miller started the company Matrix Essentials. Matrix Essentials made shampoo and conditioner, and eventually grew into becoming one of the world's biggest hair and cosmetics companies. Counted amongst their brands were Systeme Biolage and Matrix.

According to a L'Oreal spokesperson, the Solon plant was only making hair care products and that they plan to consolidate all of their shampoo and conditioner production in North America. Equipment from the Solon plant will be distributed to New Jersey and Kentucky, and workers will be offered the option of jobs in other L'Oreal plants or severance pay.

L'Oreal also has a distribution center in Streetsboro, but has no plans to close it.

Matrix Essentials was sold to Bristol-Myers Squibb in 1994 after Arthur Miller died of cancer. It was then sold to L'Oreal in 2000. At its peak, Matrix Essentials employed 1,400 people in Solon.

Microsoft's Kinect currently functions as an optional peripheral for the Xbox gaming system and uses a camera and microphone to watch and listen to a user for commands. Soon, however, Kinect may be coming to laptops. Microsoft is said to be working on integrating the Kinect motion sensor into laptops.

The Kinect has been successfully hacked to work on a computer, but in order to work on a portable device like a laptop, significant modifications would be needed.

The Kinect was released in early November 2010. Microsoft has not given an estimates as to when consumers might see the Kinect-integrated laptops, but what we do know is that they'll be licensing the technology to manufacturers rather than building their own in-house solution.

On Wednesday, the government unveiled their new colorful map of planting zones which has been updated for a warmer 21st century. The official guide, which is printed on seed packets and in gardening books and pamphlets, now reflects what many gardeners have noticed: the coldest day of the year isn't as cold as it used to be and plants that used to be too vulnerable to survive the cold can now make it further up north.

This is the first time that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has updated the map since 1990, and a lot has changed. Entire states like Ohio, Nebraska and Texas, now find themselves in warmer zones.

The new planting guide was unveiled Wednesday at the National Arboretum. It's said to use better weather information and offers more interactive technology in its online version. Gardeners can now type in their zip code and their zone will appear, showing the exact average coldest temperature for each of the 26 zones.

The USDA attempted updating the map once before in 2003, but this caused a bit of an uproar and they decided not to use the map they'd commissioned which featured the warmer weather. The Arbor Day Foundation later issued its own planting guide which reflected the warmer climate zones, and the new federal map is similar to the Arbor Day Foundation map.

Virgin American, a domestic carrier known for its innovation, has paid tribute to late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs by etching one of his signature phrases on the nose of its Airbus A320 aircraft.

The phrase "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish" was put on the plane, which started flying late last year. It's naming was the result of an internal employee naming competition.

The phrase is a nod toJobs, who used it as a motto when he delivered a commencement address at Stanford University in 2005. He gave that speech shortly after he was first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Jobs said that he saw those words on the back of a final edition of a publication known as The Whole Earth Catalog, and that they stuck with him. He said:

"It was their farewell message as they signed off. 'Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.' And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay hungry. Stay foolish."

Virgin America has become well-known for its uniquely named planes. Some of the names include #nerdbird, Virgin & Tonic, The 1-year-old virgin, and Air Colbert (in honor of Stephen Colbert).

Amazon's Kindle Fire had a successful holiday season with fourth-quarter sales that may have exceeded 4 million units according to analyst estimates. A number of analysts also predicted that the $199 tablet would take a bite out of iPad sales, it seems that wasn't the case at all.

Following Apple's first-quarter earnings report, CEO Tim Cook said that the Kindle Fire had no impact on iPad sales whatsoever. In fact, it was Apple's most profitable quarter ever, and the most profitable quarter ever reported by a technology company.

Cook said that he carefully examined iPad numbers and is convinced that the Kindle Fire didn't affect iPad sales. He said that he looked at the iPad sales numbers in the U.S. every week following the Fire's launch and noticed nothing.

Gisele Bündchen is already the world's richest model, but her wealth is about to hit new heights. As her lingerie line goes global, Gisele is set to become the world's first billionaire model.

The Gisele Bündchen Brazilian Intimates range was launched last May and has already proved popular in Latin America, Portugal, Japan and Israel. Now, further expansion is expected.

With her various product endorsements and business ventures, Gisel earned a total of $45 million USD last year. She's now on track to become the first billionaire supermodel.

Model Bar Refaeli, 26, is said to be following in Gisele's footsteps and is also preparing to launch her own collection of underwear next month.

You have been warned. If you're a Facebook user that hasn't already voluntarily switched over to the new "Timeline" profile layout, you'll be switched over regardless of your preferences now as Facebook begins the mandatory roll-out of the new layout.

The Timeline feature, for those not acquainted with it yet, differs from the default profile pages we've come to know on the social networking site. Instead of just showcasing your most recent posts, your profile can be scrolled back weeks, months and even years at a time. It could still be done with the old layout, but it was a much more time-consuming and cumbersome process. Human resources personnel and background investigators will now be able to scan your Facebook past much more efficiently and quickly.

Timeline can be both a positive and a negative. Looking back through the past can bring about some nostalgia, but it can also drag up some of your less positive moments and posts.

Fortunately, nothing is set in stone and you can go back in time and remove some of your more embarrassing posts. You now have until Tuesday, January 31 to look over your Facebook timeline before it goes "public" for all the world to see. So use that time to find any of those posts you'd not like seen before it's too late.

By the end of 2012, four to six new or remodeled Starbucks stores in Southern California, as well as a few locations in Chicago and Atlanta, will begin offering alcoholic drinks. In addition to the alcoholic beverages, Starbucks also said that it will offer "premium food" like hot flatbreads, savory snacks and small plates for happy hour patrons to order.

Starbucks began to test out its alcoholic menu in 2012 in its hometown of Seattle. Five locations in Seattle and one location in Portland, Oregon, currently offer $5 beers and wines ranging from $7 to $9.

The locations will start serving alcohol after 2pm on weekdays and after noon on weekends. All beer and wine will be kept behind the counter, rather than on display cases or shelves. Customers under the age of 21 will still be allowed inside the coffee shops.