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High School Entrepreneur Helps Students Crib And Compare Notes With MySchoolHelp

Ben Lang got the entrepreneurial bug at only 14 years old when he sold his grandfather's camera on Ebay. His latest venture is a social-learning solution for high-school kids looking to crib and compare class notes with their peers. READ»

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Google Reportedly Taking Aim at Skype With Voice Calling in Gmail

Google is reportedly testing a Web-based voice calling service, embedded inside Gmail.READ»

Threadsy Smooshes Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and More Into a Surprisingly Clean Stream

Using several different social networks can get confusing. Threadsy aggregates a bunch of them in a Web app, and mostly manages to make it compelling. It's basically a one-stop shop for online communication.READ»

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Microsoft Apes Google, Adds Worldwide Telescope Space App to Bing Maps

Sheesh, is this going to be Microsoft's enduring attitude? See something that's popular, copy it, try to make it a little better? I mean, there's Zune, Xbox, Bing, Bing Maps...the list goes on, but the newest addition is WorldWide Telescope.READ»

NYC Big Apps Winners Listed

The winners of the NYCBigApps competition are out: Top prizes go to Taxihack, Big Apple Ed, and Wayfinder NYC. And horror of horrors--none of these three is an app specifically for the world's sexiest fruit-flavored smartphone! ...READ»

Google Voice Returns to the iPhone, by Hook or by Crook

This is a case of fabulous PR timing: Google's just released Google Voice for the iPhone...and this time it works. It's all thanks to some nifty HTML5 coding, and Google's clearly hoping to steal some of Apple's iTablet ...READ»

TeuxDeux: The Web's Most Beautiful To-Do List

All web apps should have an interface this clean.READ»

Developers, Start Your Engines: NYC's Grand Experiment in Mobile Apps

The city is offering $20,000 to whomever designs a web or mobile app that best uses any of 170 public data sets--from health inspections to traffic updates.READ»

Why Is Apple Stifling Google Voice for iPhone? [Updated]

Google's amazing Voice may be changing the whole telephony game, and it's happily rocking on BlackBerrys and Android phones. But you won't see a Voice app on the iPhone, since Apple's officially killed it. Speaking to TechCrunch, a ...READ»