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Google Celebrates Charles Dickens’s 200th Birthday
Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the 200th birthday of writer Charles Dickens. Born on Feb. 7 1812 in Landport, England, Charles John Huf…

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How Digital Tools Help Companies Offer Better Health Care
Health risk assessment (HRA) is continually evolving to meet the ever-changing demands of the health care industry. It began humbly as a simple…

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Galaxy Note Super Bowl Ad Inspires Twitter Backlash
Samsung has been hyping its campaign for its Galaxy Note smartphone/tablet hybrid for the past few weeks, culminating in an ad shown toward the…

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Deleted Facebook Pictures May Still Lurk on the Internet [VIDEO]
Pictures users have deleted from Facebook months or even years ago may still exist, it has been revealed. Facebook says it’s workin…

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Chrysler Super Bowl Commercial Mysteriously Disappears, Returns to YouTube
Someone had a sudden impact on Chrysler’s “Clint Eastwood” Super Bowl spot’s availability on YouTube Sunday night. Chrysler…

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Super Bowl’s Most-Searched Term: Madonna [VIDEO]
The Giants may have won the Super Bowl, but Madonna won the Google search competition. The 53-year-old halftime performer was Google’…

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How Social Media Could Improve Public Safety
When it comes to public safety, forward-thinking government agencies are beginning to look at social media as a support tool for improved situa…

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Woman Gets Jawbone Made by 3D Printer
Need a new jawbone? Now you can print one. An 83-year-old British woman recently underwent the first-ever custom transplant of a lower jaw made by a…

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Fed Up With Facebook Changes? Try Friendio [VIDEO]
A group of former Facebook users based in Orland Park, Ill., fed up with the mandatory changes that came with Facebook’s network-wid…

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Facebook Is Bringing Ads to Mobile Apps [REPORT]
Users of Facebook‘s apps — for Android, iPad and iPhone — may begin seeing ads as soon as early March, as the company looks to…

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Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Interactive Music Video Lets You ‘Look Around’
The Red Hot Chili Peppers just released an interactive version of the music video for the band’s latest single, “Lo…

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Jawbone Working on ‘Big Jambox’ Wireless Speakers
Jawbone is working on a bigger version of its popular portable Jambox speaker, according to the company’s Federal Communications Commiss…

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Google Earth Deletes Rumored Lost City of Atlantis
The lost city of Atlantis — rumored to be discovered in a Google Earth map — is once again lost, thanks to a maps update from the se…

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LeVar Burton to Bring Reading Rainbow Back … in an App
When Reading Rainbow ended its 26-year run in 2009, it left behind decades of preschoolers for whom its theme song will forever surface nostalg…

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Netflix Launches First Original Series, ‘Lillyhammer’ [VIDEO]
Netflix has launched its first original series, Lillyhammer. The series stars Steven Van Zandt as a New York gangster who finds himself…

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Super Bowl Breaks Social TV and Broadcast Records
Super Bowl XLVI was not only a big hit with broadcast viewers, it also excelled in the social TV space. Hollywood news site Deadline reports th…

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How New York City Went Digital in 2011
Since 2010, New York City has strived to become a global digital leader. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and commissioner Katherine Oliver announced NYC…

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Amazon to Open Retail Store [RUMOR]
In what may be a sign that 2012 really is the year of the apocalypse, revered online retailer Amazon is rumored to be opening a brick-and-mortar…

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Twitter’s Ad Scrimmage Lets You Relive Super Bowl Commercials
There’s usually one commercial during the Super Bowl that outshines the others for its creativity and laughter-inducing antics — an…

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Google to Test Mystery Device in Employees’ Homes [VIDEO]
No one is sure what Google has up its sleeve, but it could be something you’ll have at home in years to come. Google applied for a F

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20 Best (or Most Annoying) Animated Super Bowl GIFs
Are you ready for some GIF-ball? That’s right — the Super Bowl XLVI moments you jabbered about before bedtime, and then again at work or…

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Brand or Celeb? Social Media Shows Who Super Bowl Ads Helped Most
Social media analytics provided to Mashable show which endorsers — and endorsees — won biggest on Super Bowl Sunday. Getting a cele…

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Earthquake Strikes Philippines: The Rapid Social Media Response [VIDEO]
Chaos struck the Philippines on Monday after a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck the central island of Negros, causing fears of tidal waves and a tsuna…

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Most Super Bowl Tweets Were Not About the Game [STATS]
According to NBC Sports, Super Bowl XLVI was the most-watched TV show in U.S. history, with 111.3 million viewers. But TV ratings weren’t…

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Honeywell Sues Nest Labs Over Thermostat Tech
When Nest Labs launched a round, self-adjusting thermostat built more like an iPhone than an appliance, we didn’t think we’d seen an…

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20 TV Shows With the Most Social Media Buzz This Week [CHART]
It should come as no surprise which television event topped the charts in terms of social chatter. If you guessed The Voice, you’re fired. That&…

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How to Fix Best Buy
Some people insist that Best Buy is dying a slow death. Meanwhile, its CEO, Brian Dunn, maintains that 80% of consumer electronics sales stil…

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Should Athletes Have Social Media Privacy? One Bill Says Yes
Should universities be allowed to force student athletes to have their Facebook and Twitter accounts monitored by coaches and administrators? N…

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The Top 15 Tweets-Per-Second Records
Twitter records continue to fall left and right as more and more people — 100 million active users at last count — continue to flock onto…

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Press Page Generator Hopes to Solve Startups’ Media Problems
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st

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