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Jenna Wortham, New York Times
Mobile coupons — usually text messages with discount codes sent to a cellphone — are becoming the blue-light specials for the digital age, promoting last-minute clothing sales, two-for-one entrees and cheap tickets to the theater. Tweet
Damon Darlin, New York Times
Evernote, of course, is free. That’s important because the company, which does no advertising, needs to acquire customers as cheaply as possible. “Our product is our marketing,” Mr. Libin says. Tweet
Julie Bort, Network World
Me-too thinking and an inability to partner for great technology are just two of the reasons why Microsoft struggles mightily with innovation. Tweet
Alex Wright, New York Times
An emerging field known as sentiment analysis is taking shape around one of the computer world’s unexplored frontiers: translating the vagaries of human emotion into hard data. Tweet
Robert Lemos, Technology Review
Can cloud computing and social networking improve security software? Tweet
Tim Hornyak, CNET News.com
A tiny robot made of cardboard and $100 of electronics can monitor your Twitter feed and help spread good karma. Tweet
Steve Lohr, New York Times
The internet has changed many things, of course, but one of its more far-reaching effects has been to transform the economics of innovation. Tweet
John Webster, CNET News.com
There is a big disconnect between how long people think they should be storing data and how long they actual can. One group of vendors and academics is trying to change that. Tweet
MG Siegler, TechCrunch
The idea is simple, take tweets and thread them together to form conversations, adding context. This works by using the a tiny thread site to both start new conversation threads, and add your comments to old ones. Tweet
MacGregor Campbell, New Scientist
Roboticists have begun to think about what robots have in common and what aspects of their construction can be standardised, hopefully resulting in a basic operating system everyone can use. This would let roboticists focus their attention on taking the technology forward. Tweet
G. Pascal Zachary, MIT Technology Review
Google is developing a new computing platform equal to the Internet era. Should Microsoft be worried? Tweet
Tamar Lewin, New York Times
Textbooks have not gone the way of the scroll yet, but many educators say that it will not be long before they are replaced by digital versions — or supplanted altogether by lessons assembled from the wealth of free courseware, educational games, videos and projects on the Web. Tweet
Economist
How a Taiwanese firm became one of the world’s fastest-growing chipmakers. Tweet
Galen Gruman, InfoWorld
New MobileIron platform for BlackBerry, iPhone, and others promises to make smartphone management enterprise-class. Tweet
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
The Khronos Group, the same industry consortium that on Monday released the OpenGL 3.2 specification, on Tuesday announced WebGL, a new initiative that its proponents hope will drive a standard for the display of hardware-accelerated 3D graphics on the Web. Tweet
by University Of Michigan News Service
A new computer game prototype combines work and play to help solve a fundamental problem underlying many computer hardware design tasks. Tweet
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