Online Collaborations | Image Source : The dictum that two heads are better than one can apply to many things, including blogging. An experience of collaborate with five websites, which makes me uniquely qualified to explain the benefits of online collaboration.

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Online Collaborations Can Help You Beat Out The Competition

Foursquare | Image Source : Socialmediaexaminer.com Smart businesses are taking Foursquare’s geo-location game to the bank.

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Foursquare : Geo-Location Game for Cashing in on Checking in

Nokia and BlackBerry-maker RIM continued to lead the smartphone market in the second quarter, but it was Android-running phones from HTC, Samsung and others that aggressively drove up sales figures, IDC reports. IDC has seconded recent second-quarter smartphone sales estimates that device shipment numbers have been soaring upward, with particular momentum coming from handsets running Google’s Android mobile operating system. The overall smartphone market grew 50 percent year over year, IDC reported Aug

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Android Smartphones Pressured Nokia and BlackBerry-maker RIM

Image Source : 88db.com As a software engineer, this question comes up fairly often “Should you specialize in a technology”. Right now the question is there because the large number of Java developers are wondering whether they should learn Ruby or Groovy. For those asking the Ruby or Groovy question, yes learn one of them

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Should You Specialize in a Technology

Image Source : developies.wordpress.com Many people wonder why Google didn’t manage to build successful social services. Orkut’s success is limited to Brazil and India, iGoogle’s social gadgets aren’t popular, Friend Connect isn’t widely used, Google Buzz has a lot of potential, but not much success.

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Google Operating System: Google and the Value of Social Networking

Health Care Funding | Image Source : hometestingblog.testcountry.com BOSTON — Federal dollars being pumped into grant programs to spur students to enter IT careers in the health care industry should help to create between 45,000 and 50,000 jobs over the next five years, a top federal health official said on Thursday. Dr.

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Health IT funding to create 50,000 jobs

Health Technology | Image Source : zunia.org NEW DELHI – Use of communication technologies like mobile phone, toll-free helpline numbers and internet portals can help in providing better health care services, recent research on the information needs of health care professionals suggests.

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‘Use Communication Technology for Better Health Services’

HP buys Palm | Image : www.ubergizmo.com HP has announced that it will purchase Palm for about $1.2B in cash, which is about a 30% premium on the company’s market value when it was announced. For Palm, it simply means “survival”, but for HP, this could mean having a shot at controlling its own destiny in a very competitive market

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HP buys Palm, Acquires Key Smartphone Technology

nullA series of mysterious music clips uploaded to YouTube over the last week have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times and have bloggers excitedly guessing which artist is behind it. Is it pop princess Christina Aguilera? Scandinavian electronic duo The Knife?

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Who is iamamiwhoami? The making of a Web Mystery

Larry Page and Sergey Brin | Image Source : Mashable.com Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two billionaire co-founders of Google, will each sell 5 million of their Google shares over the next five years, according to an SEC filing.

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Google Founders to Sell 10 Million of Their Google Shares

Auto Lift Iron | Image Source : Telegraph.co.uk An iron that prevents inattentive users from burning their shirts has been developed by retailers. The £57 Auto Lift iron from appliances company Ariete has micro-sensors embedded in the handle so it ‘knows’ when it is not being held or used. When it senses it has been left face down the feet automatically extend to raise the 2.3 KW steam iron an inch and prevent the hot plate from burning through clothes.

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Iron ‘that won’t burn clothes’

Cell phones | Image Source : Collegemedianetwork.com Tech-savvy people ushered in 2010 with the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where companies from around the world showcased new products and ideas about technology. Cell phones were a staple of the show, specifically phones featuring Windows Mobile or Google Android operating systems

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Google Innovates in Distribution, Not Just Technology