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Gmail for iPhone, iPad Adds Option to DoodleGmail updated its iOS app on Wednesday, adding standard features such as custom signature support and nested tabs along with one feature — an option to add doodles to emails — that’s right out of left field. When users access the “scribble” feature while composing a... NBC Maps the 2012 Election Campaign Trail With FoursquareNBC and Foursquare are joining forces to map the 2012 U.S. presidential election. The “Campaigns Check-In” feature will be part of NBC’s new NBCpolitics.com, which launched Wednesday. The site serves as a hub for all the network’s political coverage. Visitors are able to s... NASA Plans to Wrangle Comets With New Harpoon [VIDEO]NASA is testing a new harpoon to collect surface samples off asteroids and comets that were once unreachable. “The best way to grab a sample of a rotating comet that is racing through the inner solar system at up to 150,000 miles per hour while spewing chunks of ice, rock and dust... Netflix for iPad Gets a New Look, Latin America SupportNetflix has updated its iOS app with a newly designed user interface. The interface will look familiar to owners of Android tablets, including the Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet, because Netflix rolled out updates to that platform last month. The goal of the new iPad app — and the overall table... SkyDrive for iPhone: A Poor Man’s Dropbox? [HANDS ON]At the end of a huge year for cloud computing, Microsoft just launched a SkyDrive app for iPhone and Windows Phone. SkyDrive, which has been active since 2007, is Microsoft’s cloud service, letting users access documents over a network from anywhere — and now, from a lot more devices... Louis CK Makes $200,000 Profit in Four Days With Online VideoComedian Louis Szekely, better known as Louis C.K., is profiting handsomely from a $5 video of his latest standup routine, which he produced and distributed himself. Instead of partnering with a studio, C.K. hired a team with six cameras to tape two of his performances at the Beacon Theater in Ma... Google Has Voice-Recognition Virtual Assistant to Compete With Siri [REPORT]Google may be working on a voice-recognition assistant for Android under the codename of Majel, according to an unconfirmed report. AndroidandMe.com claims the company plans to expand its existing Google Voice Actions, already available on most Android phones, by adding a natural language proces... Microsoft Founder’s Rocket Plane Hybrid: One Giant Leap For MankindIf you build it, they will come. That may be something of a cliche these days, but it retains an essential nugget of business sense: you need the infrastructure before you can find the big revenue models. Nowhere is that more true than in the fledgling private space industry. Entrepreneurs have p... Google+ Adds Hangout Option for Status UpdatesGoogle on Wednesday introduced a new Google+ feature that lets you start a Hangout video chat from a status update and expanded the use of Hangouts On Air. With the new tweak to Hangouts, Google is looking to offer a feature that Facebook doesn’t have. The idea is that if you write or read ... Google Giving Targets Education, Tech and Anti-SlaveryGoogle‘s charitable branch, Google.org, released a list Wednesday of its 2011 non-profit grant recipients, who received a combined $40 million. The list highlights the search giant’s work promoting STEM and girls’ education, empowering through technology, and fighting slavery and ... |