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Brizzly opens up...and translates
The Twitter client has built in Google Translate for quick decoding of international tweets--and also, no more invite codes are required.
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Twitter's geotagging API goes live
The geolocation tool allows developers to incorporate a user's location in tweets. It's an opt-in service.
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What drives China? Soon, cleaner fuel
Still, the world's second largest oil consumer is taking a cautious approach to introducing tougher diesel and gasoline specifications.
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Nokia to lay off up to 330 R&D staffers
The move, which would affect workers at sites in Finland and Denmark, comes as the company shows signs of sputtering in the smartphone stakes.
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Will consumers plug into home energy displays?
Dozens of companies are developing tools to ratchet down home energy use as part of utility smart grid programs, but nobody is sure which approach will stick with consumers.
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The 411 on early-termination fees (FAQ)
Verizon Wireless has doubled its early-termination fees for smartphones, but what does it mean for the rest of the industry?
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Cisco launches iPhone security app
Cisco Systems' new App Store entry, featuring customized alerts and threat information delivered to the handheld device, targets security professionals.
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Adobe's Acrobat.com reorganizes, gets mobile app
The company improves its Acrobat service with a new organizer and a mobile app for the iPhone and BlackBerry that lets users access their files on the go.
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Fortified rice, fuel cells among Tech Award winners
Al Gore receives humanitarian honor at Tech Museum event that provides prizes to projects in the areas of environment, health, biosciences economic development, equality, and education.
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Town to photograph every car that enters and leaves
The California town of Tiburon votes to set up permanent cameras to record the license plate of every car on its roads. Is this one more step toward a surveillance state?
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Al Gore: Our next power grid will be like the Net
The former vice president takes the stage at VentureBeat's GreenBeat conference in San Mateo, Calif. to discuss some of the challenges ahead for moving to the smart grid.
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Germ alert: Attack of the killer necktie!
As the medical community debates whether to remove neckties from hospitals to prevent the spread of superbugs that claim thousands of lives annually, a microbe-thwarting tie is born.
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Judge sets February hearing for new Google Books deal
Schedule is laid out for the second round of the final approval process as preliminary approval is given to the revised deal submitted last Friday.
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HDMI products to get meaningful labels
HDMI Licensing releases guidelines that enforce meaningful labeling to different versions of HDMI cables.
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Offerpal revises terms amid continued scandal
Under fire for running misleading ads on social networks, the offers-and-surveys broker now says publishers can choose how "conservative" they want to be with ads.
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eBay sets Skype loose at $2.75 billion valuation
The auction site has sold off its telephony unit, finally, after plans to take it public and a legal dispute with the company's founders.
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Apple: 'Enterprise' is as enterprise does
Gartner's Nick Jones wants to characterize Apple as a consumer company, but what happens when those consumers start using Apple's tech in the enterprise en masse?
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Google has its own plan for Netbooks
No, the search giant isn't saying it will build a Netbook. But it sure knows what it would like one running Chrome OS to resemble, and that's a little different from the Netbook of today.
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Facebook becomes third most popular video site
Facebook has experienced tremendous growth in the number of users watching video on its site, putting it just behind YouTube and Hulu in October.
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Mozilla not interested in building a Firefox OS
Does the Firefox backer want to turn its open-source browser into the basis for an operating system a la Google's Chrome OS? Not for now at least.
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