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Facebook: Taking a cue from Twitter in sharing?

The popular online hangout Facebook is revamping its home page and plans other changes so its millions of users can more easily choose the types of information they see. Perhaps taking a cue from Twitter, the rising service for letting people express t...

Review: Kindle e-book reader comes to the iPhone

Amazon.com Inc. has received a lot of attention and respectable sales for its Kindle e-book reader, but it's hardly made a dent in the hardcover armor of the old-fashioned paper book. On Wednesday, the Internet company revealed another prong of its str...

Apple adds power to Mac desktop line

Apple Inc. introduced a refreshed line of Macintosh desktop computers Tuesday that the company touted as more affordable, even though price tags for all but one model top $1,000. The rollout, which many analysts expected to come this year, included a p...

Sony's 'Killzone 2' war game lives up to hype

When Sony announced the PlayStation 3 at the 2005 Electronic Entertainment Expo, its centerpiece was a breathtaking chunk of footage from a game called "Killzone 2." The clip, which showed a squad of troopers descending on a city and battling alien for...

Review: Verizon Hub breathes life into home phone

Some companies are still trying to reinvent the basic home telephone. The latest attempt comes from Verizon Wireless, which recently began offering the Hub. Although the Hub won't go so far as to replace your computer, the Hub can make your home phone ...

8 technology etiquette tips for job-seekers

If there's any small solace when starting a job search in this recession, it's the proliferation of digital technology to help you re-enter the working world. Web sites like Indeed.com and LinkedIn.com have multiplied the number of job openings you can...

Skype to be included on some Nokia smart phones

Skype's software for making free and cheap phone calls over the Internet will be built in to some Nokia Corp. smart phones. In a move announced this week at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, the companies said Skype will be initially i...

New service unblocks blocked Caller ID

A service launched this week unblocks Caller ID information that the caller thinks is blocked, causing concern among those who help abused women. TrapCall.com lets people rig some AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile USA phones so that if a call comes in with blocke...

Product launches muted at wireless show

The softness in the market for new mobile phones showed clearly Monday in a thin array of new product rollouts at the GSMA Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona _ usually a smorgasbord of eye-catching gadgets. With the global recession making c...

Sleeping Lenovo laptops to get BlackBerry e-mail

Even with it is turned off, a new ThinkPad laptop will be able to talk to a BlackBerry phone so their owner will be able to read and send e-mail faster, the companies behind the devices planned to announce Monday. Lenovo Group Ltd., maker of the ThinkP...

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