Technology
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Facebook Announces 'Places'
The huge social network is making it easier for users to share location information, making a bigger push onto Foursquare and Gowalla's turf
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HP Hires Spencer Stuart To Find Hurd's Successor 12:03 AM
Two of the top recruiters at Spencer Stuart will lead the search for a new CEO at the world's biggest computer maker
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Outspark's Free Games Coax Users to Pay $35,000 for Virtual Potions, Rings
The San Francisco-based startup aims to outsell social gaming pioneer Zynga by getting users to pay more for in-game magic potions, rings that boast special powers and even virtual marriage licenses
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Arjun Sethi and Olivier Aries
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CEO Guide To Tech
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Big Tech Problem as Mainframes Outlast Workforce
IBM and CA are hard-pressed to replace the aging corps of Baby Boomers who support their still-indispensable mainframe business
- Boeing Enlists Hollywood to Make Engineering Cool
- Apple's iPad Wins Corporate Converts at Wells Fargo, SAP
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Computers
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FaceTime and the Need for Mobile Video Chat Etiquette
IPhone 4 users are getting used to the idea of convenient on-demand video chat. Here are proposed guidelines for a polite experience
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Consumer Electronics
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FaceTime and the Need for Mobile Video Chat Etiquette
IPhone 4 users are getting used to the idea of convenient on-demand video chat. Here are proposed guidelines for a polite experience
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Digital Entertainment
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One Way to Save the Music Industry
Given the persistence of digital music piracy, a new subscription-creation model borrowed from online gaming could aid ailing record labels
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Internet
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AT&T, Angie's List Take Cues from Groupon
Spurred by the success of daily coupon site Groupon, phone book companies and newspaper publishers are taking aim at the market for coupons sent via e-mail
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Product Reviews
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Toshiba's Energy-Saving E205 Laptop
The notebook sips power and beams video to a TV, but shortcomings keep the E205-S1904 Satellite from achieving star status
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Science
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Boeing Enlists Hollywood to Make Engineering Cool
With U.S. technologists retiring—and security clearances needed for many aerospace jobs—can America's youth be persuaded to take up tech?
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Social Media
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Social Networking and Games Leap in Web Use
Nielsen finds that U.S. Internet users are spending more time on social networks and games—and less on e-mail and traditional Web portals
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Software
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The End of Outsourcing (As We Know It)
As Google and Amazon.com become preeminent sellers of tech services, companies from Accenture to Microsoft and Xerox must adapt to cloud computing
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Tech Maven
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RIM's Vastly Improved BlackBerry Storm
New touchscreen sensors on the Storm 2 make a huge difference in usability. Still, Apple needn't worry
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Telecom
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T-Mobile Looks to Lag in Offering 4G Service
As AT&T; and Verizon prepare fourth-generation LTE networks, the Deutsche Telekom unit says it can rely for now on its HSPA+ 3G technology
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Google Is from Mars; Facebook Is from Venus
A developer who has worked at both companies describes the marked differences in their cultures
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Bloomberg News
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