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Thursday January 27, 2011

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Opinion

Social Web

For Sale On the Web: You!

January 27, 2011 • In the digital age, writes commentator Dave Pell, it seems all we do is sell ourselves. Look how great my marriage is! Or my awesome workout! But this is leaving us overwhelmed.

Friday January 7, 2011

Commentary

Haunted By Real Life On The Internet

January 7, 2011 • The Internet is the centerpiece of our lives. We live online as much as we do on the ground. Sometimes that life online doesn't fade away, even when the person connected to it does.

Thursday January 6, 2011

Connectivity: When Your Phone Talks To Your TV

The Sony Ericsson Xperia arc. Android-based smart phone, will connect to your TV and remember where you stopped watching a film. Sony Ericsson hide caption

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Connectivity: When Your Phone Talks To Your TV

January 6, 2011 • There are more Internet-connected devices than ever before and some of them are talking to one another.

Connectivity: When Your Phone Talks To Your TV

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Wednesday December 22, 2010

No Facebook? In India, A New Option For Mobile Users

Boys in a Mumbai slum use their cell phones. An Indian service called GupShup is using simple texting functions to form virtual communities. There are vast stretches of India and elsewhere in the developing world with ample basic cellphone service, but that have yet to access social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter. Rafiq Maqbool/AP hide caption

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Gadgets & Apps

No Facebook? In India, A New Option For Mobile Users

December 22, 2010 • Not everyone in the world is on Facebook, it just seems that way. Most Indians only have cheap, basic cellphones. But a company in India has figured out a low-tech means of creating a social network for the country's 500 million mobile phone users.

No Facebook? In India, A New Option For Mobile Users

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