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• Facebook and LinkedIn Add-Ons Infuse Klout Scoring into Hiring
  Imagine if your Klout score -- the contentious Nielsen 2.0 rating that analyzes your social network influence -- determined whether you got a job? Or, if you're not a marketeer, imagine if hiring managers examined a handful of metrics that projected your work ethic and level of business influence. It's like HR departments would have ...
  15 hours ago

• Skype Announces Facebook-to-Facebook Calling
  Skype Thursday announced that Skype and Facebook can now be linked from Skype's end. With Skype's new 5.4 Beta for Mac and 5.7 Beta for Windows, users can conduct a "Facebook to Facebook" call from within the Skype platform. It's a major component of  July's announcement that Skype would be powering Facebook's new video-chat feature. To ...
  16 hours ago

• Ice Cream Sandwich: Hands-On With Google's New Android OS
  When Google officially unveiled its newest Android operating system almost exactly one month ago, Matias Duarte, senior director of Android User Experience, told a rapt Hong Kong audience, "While people like Android, while people need Android, they didn't love Android." Everyone knew exactly what he was getting at. Android might be the world's most dominant smartphone OS with a 52 percent market share among global users, but compared to iOS, and even the upstart Windows Phone, it's just not very fun.
  18 hours ago

• Samsung Galaxy Nexus: A First Look at Android's Next-Gen Handset
  The Galaxy Nexus is the latest in a line of flagship device launches for Google, a program it began after collaborating with HTC to launch the first Android phone, the HTC Dream, in October 2008. Working closely with a single manufacturer, Google prepares each major iteration of Android for launch with a brand new device. The practice eventually became what we now know as the "Nexus" program, beginning with the HTC Nexus One almost two years ago. And now, finally, the ICS flagship has arrived. I've spent about eight hours running the smartphone through its paces, and here are my first-look impressions.
  18 hours ago

• Unfrozen Caveman CIO at Google Atmosphere: "So 'Cloud' is Gmail, Right?"
  As Google's Atmosphere conference was winding down on Monday afternoon, I sat in the press box and ruminated on the vague discomfort that had been nagging me since lunch. Something was bothering me about the way the CIOs that Google had gathered to give testimonials were talking about "going Google," but I couldn't quite put ...
  11.17.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Nov. 17
  Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
  11.17.11

• Your Phone Is Too Fat
  Motorola has brought the Razr brand back, pasting it onto an Android phone that's beautiful, extremely slim and remarkably powerful. Sort of like a '60s-era Twiggy, only transported to 2011 and juiced out of her gourd on Muscle Milk.
  11.16.11

• Strapped to Android, Google Aims for iTunes With Music Store Debut
  With sights set firmly on its Silicon Valley nemesis Apple, Google launched its music service at an event in Los Angeles on Tuesday. The move into the space signals Google's aim to challenge the mighty iTunes head on.
  11.16.11

• Strapped to Android, Google Aims for iTunes With Music Store Debut
  With sights set firmly on its Silicon Valley nemesis Apple, Google launched its music service at an event in Los Angeles on Tuesday. The move into the space signals Google's aim to challenge the mighty iTunes head on.
  11.16.11

• Strapped to Android, Google Aims for iTunes With Music Store Debut
  With sights set firmly on its Silicon Valley nemesis Apple, Google launched its music service at an event in Los Angeles on Tuesday. The move into the space signals Google's aim to challenge the mighty iTunes head on.
  11.16.11

• Google vs. Microsoft: Not All Clouds Are Created Equal
  Amit Singh defected to Google after 20 years at Oracle because he wanted to join the revolution in the cloud. At Google, he says, "the cloud" means something very different than it means at Oracle -- or Microsoft.
  11.16.11

• Flowd: A Loyalty Program for Music Fans
  A new social network aimed at music lovers makes it simple for bands to reward their fans with rockin' offers.
  11.16.11

• Flowd: A Loyalty Program for Music Fans
  A new social network aimed at music lovers makes it simple for bands to reward their fans with rockin' offers.
  11.16.11

• Cord Cutters, Rejoice! Boxee Dongle Delivers Live HDTV, Sans Subscription
  I abandoned cable TV years ago. I couldn't afford to spend hours in front of the boob tube, absorbing Jersey Shore-isms and Two and a Half Manliness. But there are definitely times when I miss being able to watch TV, live and in HD. Luckily, Boxee, maker of the Boxee set-top box, has come up with a solution that provides access to basic live TV, in HD, without the need for a cable subscription. It's the Boxee LiveTV dongle. LiveTV gives you access to basic channels like ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox in HD, all without a monthly subscription fee. This Boxee Box add-on costs $50, and is currently available for pre-order.
  11.16.11

• A Father-Son Trip to 343, The Maker of Halo
  Father and son Halo fans get to visit 343 Industries (the current Halo developer), and relive a decade of FPS family fun.
  11.16.11

• Google Gets Literal: 'Verbatim' Searches Are Back (You're Welcome)
  You're welcome, Google. Google has rolled out a "verbatim" search mode which looks for exactly what you typed. What ¿ you thought Google always did that? Well, Google used to, with a well-known (but, they say, little used) "+" operator. And then they dropped it. And then Andy Baio cried foul. Tweeting the 140-character version of his displeasure ...
  11.16.11

• Belkin LiveAction iPhone Camera Accessories
  Belkin has popped out two new accessories for iPhone-wielding photographers -- the LiveAction Camera Grip and the LiveAction Camera Remote. The Grip adds a physical shutter-release to your iPhone, plugging into the 30-pin dock connector and working in tandem with a free companion app. It has two buttons, one for stills and one for video, and ...
  11.16.11

• Genius: Holga Lens Filter iPhone Case
  If you have any interest in lo-fi Instagramography, then you're going to love this iPhone case. It comes from Holga, the company normally seen making plastic-lensed, light-leaking film cameras, and it makes your wonderful 8MP iPhone 4S's camera work just like the crappy junk of yesteryear. Instead of mimicking analog glitches with software, the Holga iPhone ...
  11.16.11

• Google and Facebook Fly Into Server World's Bermuda Triangle
  Google goes there. So does Facebook. And probably Amazon and eBay and many other top Internet companies. It's the server market's Bermuda Triangle -- a place where hundreds of thousands of computers are trading hands in a market dominated by a handful of Taiwanese companies that you've probably never heard of.
  11.16.11

• Google and Facebook Fly Into Server World's Bermuda Triangle
  Google goes there. So does Facebook. And probably Amazon and eBay and many other top Internet companies. It's the server market's Bermuda Triangle -- a place where hundreds of thousands of computers are trading hands in a market dominated by a handful of Taiwanese companies that you've probably never heard of.
  11.16.11

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Nov. 16
  Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
  11.16.11

• Steve Jobs Wanted iPhone on Its Own Network, Carrier-Free
  When Steve Jobs first dreamed up the iPhone with his team at Apple, he didn't want it to run on AT&T;'s network. He wanted to create his own network.
  11.15.11

• Steve Jobs Wanted iPhone on Its Own Network, Carrier-Free
  When Steve Jobs first dreamed up the iPhone with his team at Apple, he didn't want it to run on AT&T;'s network. He wanted to create his own network.
  11.15.11

• Steve Jobs Wanted iPhone on Its Own Network, Carrier-Free
  When Steve Jobs first dreamed up the iPhone with his team at Apple, he didn't want it to run on AT&T;'s network. He wanted to create his own network.
  11.15.11

• Apple Board Names Levinson Chair, Adds Disney's Iger
  Steve Jobs stepped down at CEO of Apple a few weeks before his death but remained chairman of the board to his last breath. Today, Apple edged further into the post-Jobs era by naming a new chairman: Art Levinson, who has been a co-lead director since 2005. "Art has made enormous contributions to Apple since he ...
  11.15.11

• Android Crushed the Smartphone Competition Last Quarter
  The smartphone OS space looks a whole lot different than it did a year ago. Android has seriously stepped up to become the top dog, Symbian is a force no more, and iOS ... well, not everything changes.
  11.15.11

• How Cloud Turned the Game Console into a Thin Client & Changed the Console Wars
  The cloud has redefined more than just TV and movies -- it has also completely altered the landscape on which the game console wars play out. Now that the "convergence box" has finally arrived on the scene some 10 years after Microsoft and Sony thought it would, it turns out that it's a thin client.
  11.15.11