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How Sony And Google Can Beat Amazon at the E-Book Game (Hint: Not With Out-of-Print Books)

Sony and Google joined forces today to tackle the Amazon Kindle, the current king of e-books...by releasing half a million out-of-print books for the Sony E-Reader from Google's Book Search library. Will it be an effective ...READ»

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Cisco Buys Flip Video Cam Maker for $590 Million

Cisco Systems, most commonly associated with business technology infrastructure and networking hardware, is using a chunk of its massive cash reserves to buy Pure Digital Technologies--creators of the highly popular Flip range of ...READ»

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BeamBox R-1 Pico Projector: Slick and Bright, But Not Yet Amazing

Pico projectors have been heftily touted by the gadget-making industry as one of the "next big thing" technologies for 2009. But until now most of the devices have been larger than hand-held, dim, ugly-looking beasts, or a ...READ»

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Achilles Heel of Apple iPhone 3.0: Background Application Support

Today, Apple had the opportunity to double-lap the Google Android and BlackBerry platforms. They failed. The iPhone maker has raised the bar for its competitors, to be sure, showing off a host of smart innovations to their ...READ»

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Google's Head Editor: "Government Filtering is Not All Bad"

  Nicole Wong, dubbed  "Google's Gatekeeper" by the New York Times Magazine and "The Decider" by her colleagues, is the person at Google with the ultimate responsibility for deciding whether to ...READ»

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Google's Censorship Czar: "Government Filtering is Not All Bad"

Nicole Wong, dubbed  "Google's Gatekeeper" by the New York Times Magazine and "The Decider" by her colleagues, is the person at Google with the ultimate responsibility for deciding whether to honor ...READ»

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Shortn.me: Smartest URL Clipper Yet

One side benefit of working with Crisp Wireless for the launch of our new mobile site, m.fastcompany.com, is that we also get to introduce you to Shortn.me. It's a new service that lets you shorten a website URL for sharing on ...READ»

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Long-Lasting, Sustainable Sonata Batteries Now Available for HP Laptops

Boston Power made a tantalizing promise last December: the eventual release of a laptop battery for HP computers that has a three-year warranty (the longest of any laptop provider), delivers "like-new performance" for the ...READ»

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Do You Think In 140 Characters?

You know Twitter has hit mainstream when it becomes a topic for Jon Stewart and Social Media Analyst Jeremiah is talking about dreaming in 140 characters in his recent blog post, Ask Jeremiah: Comprehensive FAQ Guide To ...READ»

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Lenovo's "Pocket Yoga" Netbook: Om My!

Sony is very proud of its Vaio P mini computer, teasing its release often, and refusing to classify it as a netbook, notebook or even UMPC--it's a "lifestyle" PC. But the supposed pocket-friendliness of the "P" ...READ»