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Steve Jobs, Human Being: 10 Quirky Details From the Bestselling BiographySo he was a flawed mortal after all. A really flawed mortal, whose boundless obsession turned him into the nearest thing to a Shakespearean figure that our century has seen. This is what we find after finishing Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, the authorized biography which rocketed to the top of ... Redbox Raises DVD Prices: We’ve Seen This Movie BeforeIn a move that no doubt caused a lot of consternation after rival Netflix‘s experience doing the same, Redbox has decided to raise the price of its DVD rentals. The increase, which goes into effect Oct. 31, is only from $1 per day to $1.20. Prices for Blu-ray rentals and game rentals will s... Angry Birds and iPads to Fly into SpaceAfter taking over the world – in the form of an extremely popular multi-platform game, followed by toys and accessories, even baby clothes – Angry Birds will venture where no dissatisfied feathered creature has gone before: into space. An Angry Birds plush toy, as well as two Apple i... Occupy Wall Street Beats Tea Party in Searches on GoogleGoogle has added its perspective — with a search-data-based popularity contest — to the comparisons between Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party. The data rules in favor of Occupy Wall Street. Users searched for the nascent movement more than the Tea Party for the first time in the Un... I Want My Siri TV: Is Apple Aiming to Make the Remote Obsolete?Television is broken. I know it. You know it. Steve Jobs knew it. I have a pretty state-of-the-art 2011 Sony LED TV, complete with Hulu Plus, Netflix and YouTube apps. Yet it still usually takes me about a dozen clicks on a button-rich remote to get to what I want to watch. By the time you actua... HP Will Keep Its PC Division, Meg Whitman DecidesHewlett-Packard will keep making PCs rather than spinning off its consumer computer division, the company announced Thursday. HP surprised the tech world in August, when then-CEO Leo Apotheker announced he was killing the company’s webOS tablet, the TouchPad, and “considering” s... Should the New Facebook Gestures Allow a Dislike Button?Peter VanRysdam is the CMO of web design company 352 Media Group and the author of Marketing in a Web 2.0 World. Connect with him on Twitter @Peter352. Lost in all the announcements about Timeline and frictionless experiences at Facebook’s F8 conference in September was a change to the Open Gr... Google+ Adds Creative Kit Photo Fun and What’s Hot [HANDS-ON]Google has been busy (and a little scary) today. It’s unveiled a host of new Google+ features, including enhanced photo-editing tools, a new What’s Hot area and a viral visualization for posts. Plus, Google is finally making its upstart social network Google+ available to Google Apps users. ... Why Digital Medical Records Could Save Your LifeThe Tech Innovators Series is supported by Lenovo. Lenovo does not just manufacture technology. They make Do machines — super-powered creation engines designed to help the people who do, do more, do better, do in brand new ways. I’m from Los Angeles, went to college in Philadelphia, ... Google+ Comes to Google AppsGoogle has announced a host of new features for Google+, including the ability to use Google+ from a Google Apps account. When Google made Google+ available to all users earlier this fall, people who use Google Apps for work or personal use were left out in the cold. This was frustrating for many... |