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• Why Google Doesn't (and Shouldn't) Care About Tablets Yet
  Why isn't Google racing to get out ahead of the tablet market, pushing the envelope on pricing and capabilities, and generally looking to disrupt the whole show?
  16 hours ago

• Caterina Fake: Killing the Abraham
  I call the founder, founders or founding team of a company "The Abraham." The Abraham influences all that follows, sets the vision and direction for the company, and the Abraham's mores, habits, preferences, flaws and prejudices are often built, consciously or unconsciously, into the fabric of the company.
  16 hours ago

• Google Unwraps Ice Cream Sandwich, the Next-Generation Android OS
  After months of anticipation and leaked software screen shots, Google finally unveiled Android 4.0, also known as "Ice Cream Sandwich," the latest update to the search giant's Android mobile platform.
  10.19.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Wednesday, Oct. 19
  Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
  10.19.11

• Hands-On With Motorola's Droid Razr, World's Thinnest Smartphone
  Tuesday morning, Motorola announced its new flagship Android smartphone, the Droid Razr. Now, after spending quality hands-on time with the phone, we can say it's poised to become a formidable competitor in the Android space -- if not also a challenge to Apple's much-lauded iPhone 4S.
  10.18.11

• Google Docs Polishes Its Presentation Skills
  Google has overhauled the "presentations" portion of Google Docs, rolling over 50 new tools into its online answer to Microsoft Powerpoint. Mountain View calls this the first major rewrite of the service, and it focuses on the flashy side of creating and delivering presentations, adding slide transitions, animations, drawing tools, and data tables. "You're never going ...
  10.18.11

• How Yahoo Spawned Hadoop, the Future of Big Data
  If you listen to the pundits, Yahoo isn't a technology company. And yet it spawned one of the most important software technologies of the last five years: Hadoop, an open source platform designed to crunch epic amounts of data using an army of dirt-cheap servers.
  10.18.11

• How Yahoo Spawned Hadoop, the Future of Big Data
  If you listen to the pundits, Yahoo isn't a technology company. And yet it spawned one of the most important software technologies of the last five years: Hadoop, an open source platform designed to crunch epic amounts of data using an army of dirt-cheap servers.
  10.18.11

• Cookie Monster Makes a PSA about Parental Controls for Game Consoles
  Cookie Monster isn't just googly-eyed, fuzzy, blue, and a lover of his namesake food item. He's also a responsible, upstanding citizen who recorded a public service announcement (PSA) with Microsoft, to make sure people are aware of what would happen if there were a global cookie shortage. Oh, and also how to use use parental controls ...
  10.18.11

• Google Encrypts Search to Thwart Wi-Fi Hackers
  Logged-in Google users will soon be largely immune to Wi-Fi hackers and network administrators spying on their searches as Google will soon make https://google.com the default homepage.
  10.18.11

• Nokia N9 Smartphone Is Heavy on Quirkiness, Light on Substance
  It's all very nice to look at, but it seems the N9 smartphone's lofty design goals may have preempted key features in Nokia's quest for a less busy exterior.
  10.18.11

• Microsoft Continues 'Critical Shift' to the Cloud with Windows Intune 2.0
  Microsoft has released a new version of Windows Intune -- its fledgling online service for managing PCs -- continuing its push into the brave new world of "cloud computing". "Our vision for Windows Intune is big," Eric Main of Microsoft said in a blog post on Monday. "We want to take the best of the ...
  10.18.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Tuesday, Oct. 18
  Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
  10.18.11

• 2011: When Google Went Gaga for Music
  2011 is turning out to be the year Google got serious about music, with a music blog, a cloud hosting service for your tunes, and a rumored new music store.
  10.17.11

• LG DoublePlay Phone Touts Two Screens for Multitasking Fiends
  We 21st century humans are busy creatures. Bombarded by a constant stream of data flowing into our smartphones, we struggle to respond to text messages, tweets and e-mails in a timely fashion. But LG's latest smartphone, exclusive to T-Mobile, may provide a solution.
  10.17.11

• What Apple's Big Weekend Means in the Global Smartphone Market
  The new iPhone 4S went on sale Friday. In three days, Apple sold over four million of them — half as many iPhone 4S copies as the Xbox Kinect sold in two months. But what do these numbers really mean?
  10.17.11

• What Apple's Big Weekend Means in the Global Smartphone Market
  The new iPhone 4S went on sale Friday. In three days, Apple sold over four million of them — half as many iPhone 4S copies as the Xbox Kinect sold in two months. But what do these numbers really mean?
  10.17.11

• Kindle Update Adds Read Position Sync, Cloud Storage
  A somewhat innocuous update for the Kindle looks like it's not even worth a press release, but a closer look reveals it to be a pretty big deal. Kindle Keyboard Software update v3.3 brings Whispersync and cloud storage to personal documents. While some might frame this as an answer to Apple's iCloud, it seems like an ...
  10.17.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Mon., Oct. 17
  Google's daily brainteaser tests your search skills.
  10.17.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Sun., Oct. 16
  A daily brainteaser that will put your search skills to the test!
  10.16.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Sat., Oct. 15
  A daily brainteaser that will put your search skills to the test!
  10.15.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Fri., Oct. 14
  A daily brainteaser that will put your search skills to the test!
  10.14.11

• Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On
  The tributes to Dennis Ritchie won¿t match the river of praise that spilled out over the web after the death of Steve Jobs. But they should. And then some. "When Steve Jobs died last week, there was a huge outcry, and that was very moving and justified. But Dennis had a bigger effect, and the public doesn¿t ...
  10.13.11

• Does Apple's Patent Win Against Samsung Put More Android Devices at Risk?
  There's been gnashing of teeth between Apple and Samsung in courts across the globe for a while now, but Australia's temporary injunction against the sale of a Samsung tablet is a huge win for Apple, and could be very bad for the Android platform.
  10.13.11

• Three Screens And A Cloud: Xbox, Windows Phone, and the Future of the Personal Computer
  There are plenty of smartphone remote applications. But the Windows Phone 7 does two smart things: It doesn¿t just change the channel on the Xbox, but can pull and identify content from it, context-dependent based on what you¿re already watching.
  10.13.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Thur., Oct. 13
  A daily brainteaser that will put your search skills to the test!
  10.13.11

• Kinect-Based Software Lets You Pay Bills With Gestures, Gymnastics
  Lithuanian software outfit Etronika created a new Kinect-based, motion-activated user interface for the company's banking software, letting users manipulate and manage their accounts with a literal wave of their hand.
  10.13.11