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How 5 Tech Giants Are Giving Back to EducationMelissa Jun Rowley is a television and online journalist and social entrepreneur. Her writing has been featured on CBS News, Discovery News, LA Weekly, BlogHer, and others, and she has produced and reported for CNN, the Associated Press, E! Entertainment, TV Guide Channel and AMC. Melissa is curr... “South Park” to Take On Occupy Wall Street [VIDEO]The Occupy Wall Street movement is going to get the South Park treatment on Wednesday night. The latest episode of the long-running animated series is entitled “1%,” and it’s on Comedy Central tonight (Wednesday) at 10 p.m./9 p.m. Central Time. The preview clip for the episode sh... Protecting Your Online Reputation: 4 Things You Need to Know [INFOGRAPHIC]You don’t have to be running for president to care about your online reputation. Almost everything you do online is easy to track, especially when you’re using social media sites. This infographic shows you how to manage your “e-reputation,” perhaps saving you some embarra... HP Re-Enters the Tablet Race With Slate 2After nearly exiting the PC business, then changing its mind last week, Hewlett-Packard has proved it’s still interested in capturing a piece of the tablet market with the launch of Windows 7-based Slate 2. The device sports an 8.9-inch capacitive multi-touch screen, an Intel Atom Z670 CPU... CBS Supercharges Sweeps Week With Social MediaCBS is giving its November Sweeps a social media twist. From Nov. 5 – 11, the anchors for CBS Sports and stars from CBS TV shows will take over the Facebook and Twitter accounts for their respective programs. CBS is dubbing the event “Social Sweep Week,” and it’s another e... Google+ Adds More YouTube and Chrome FeaturesGoogle announced further integration of YouTube and Chrome into its Google+ social network. The search giant made the announcement in its official Google blog on Thursday, showing how it has continued its integration of YouTube into Google+. Last summer, Google incorporated the ability to play Y... LinkedIn by the Numbers: 131 Million Members, 1 Million Groups, 400% Mobile GrowthLinkedIn‘s growth metrics are up: The professional social network now has 131 million members and more than a million groups, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner told listeners on an earnings call. Weiner says more than 15 million people joined the business social network in the third quarter of 2011.... Where Is Yahoo Headed? Its Product Chief Has a Clue [INTERVIEW]Yahoo Chief Product Officer Blake Irving says that he’s not interested in the vacant Yahoo CEO job, but is instead focused on a big pipeline of mobile products and beating Nielsen at its own game. In an interview with Mashable, the charismatic Yahoo executive claims he’s not vying to ... Opera Mini 6.5 Now Available for iOS and BlackBerryThe latest version of Opera‘s mobile browser, Opera Mini 6.5, is now available for iOS, S60, J2ME and BlackBerry platforms. The new mobile version of Opera is now also available for Symbian, MeeGo and Maemo, in the form of Opera Mobile 11.5. The updates come three weeks after Opera releas... HTC Rezound to Run on Verizon’s Speedy 4G LTE Network [PICS]HTC rolled out the HTC Rezound smartphone for the Verizon 4G LTE network on Thursday, and besides packing some seriously impressive specs, it doesn’t look too bad, either. Let’s take a look. Running the Android Gingerbread operating system, otherwise known as version 2.3, it’... |