| Google to Resolve FTC Antitrust Case Today, Report Says | | The U.S. Federal Trade Commission's nearly two-year antitrust probe into Google will come to a close Thursday, according to a report. After 20 months, the search giant will end the case with a "voluntary agreement and a consent decree" on its alleged abuse of patents, Bloomberg said.
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| 6 Easy Ways to Make Your Website Tablet-Friendly | | There are nearly 70 million tablet users in the U.S. alone, a figure that has doubled from the year before. This means that nearly 30% of the country's Internet users are browsing on a tablet device. Tablet traffic to e-commerce sites grew by 348% from 2011 to 2012, overtaking smartphone traffic for the first time. With the tablet market as young as it is, its footprint is only going to expand.
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| LinkedIn's Endorsements Have Become Meaningless | | In social media, friction is often presented as the enemy. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, for instance speaks of "frictionless sharing" as a goal. Last year, Facebook worked with media companies like The Washington Post and The Guardian for frictionless sharing apps that automatically share articles a user is reading with her friends. Now, those "reader" apps are gone.
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| YOLO, So Don't Waste Your Time Saying These Banned Words of 2013 | | For one university, ringing in the New Year also means getting rid of a few tired old words and phrases. Lake Superior State University compiled its annual "List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness" for 2013. The list, which was first launched in 1976, accepts nominations for banned words year-round.
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| Viral Nike Ad Speaks to Hockey Fans' Angst as NHL Lockout Drags on | | The NHL lockout is well over 100 days old now, and even with the players' union delivering another counteroffer to the league on Wednesday, hopes for a salvaged season appear dim. More than half of the season has so far been obliterated. The NHL has already stoked fans' ire with an Instagram meme fail pimping its Pinterest page, while negotiations in early December spawned a pair of parody Twitter accounts.
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| French Minister Demands Twitter Censor Hate Speech | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 10:55 PM | Zoe Fox |
| After #SiMonFilsEstGay ("If my son is gay") trended on Twitter for days in France, the country's Minister of Women's Rights said the micro-blog must begin to censor hate speech. Najat Belkacem-Vallaud argued that this sort of speech is illegal according to national law in the French newspaper Le Monde. The homophobic trending topic is not an isolated event, Belkacem-Vallaud points out.
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| The Most Misheard Lyrics of 2012 | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 10:01 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Songwriters agonize over crafting seductive, witty, insightful lyrics for us to sing along to. Yet, we butcher them every time. Okay, who are we kidding? Whoever wrote, "Before you came into my life, I missed you so bad" is in desperate need of some grammar lessons. And the people who wrote, "Let's go crazy crazy crazy till we see the sun" were really just scribbling on a napkin while waiting for their fries, or something.
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| Solar Charger Powers a Smartphone After a Day in the Sun | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 9:33 PM | Charlie White |
| Place this smartphone-sized charger in the sun for a day, and it will be able to charge your smartphone or tablet and give you eight hours of reading light, too. That's the claim of the makers of the Wakawaka Power Compact Solar Charger, a Kickstarter project that's far surpassed its original expectations. It's received more than $232,000 worth of pledges, blasting through its $50,000 goal with 8 days to go.
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| Samsung Brings the Sexy to Windows 8 Touch Laptops | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 9:00 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Samsung launched a varied selection of Windows 8 devices when Microsoft's new operating system debuted in October, but its only touch-screen laptop was the Series 5 Ultrabook. Now it's expanding its selection of touch laptops with the Series 7 Chronos and Series 7 Ultra PCs. The Series 7 Ultra (above) is definitely the looker of the pair. A proper Ultrabook, the laptop has a 13.3-inch touch screen with full HD resolution: 1,920 x 1,080.
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| Comic Artist Uses Robots to Quit Smoking | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 8:44 PM | Christine Erickson |
| Comic artist Bryan Bruner has been smoking for 19 years, and he hates it. This year he's quitting cold turkey, with the help of some robots. In effort to help his smoke-free mission, Healthline has commissioned Bruner to create a 21-page comic. The illustrations tell the 36-year-old's smoker story, featuring a wide cast of robots. The story tells how "Ash Bender," the smoking robot protagonist, became "programmed" to think smoking was cool.
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| 12 Bizarre Subreddits You Shouldn't Live Without | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 6:28 PM | Matt Silverman |
| Reddit is a weird place. Beyond the memes and inside jokes on the front page, there are thousands of niche communities where folks get nitty and gritty about the darndest things. SEE ALSO: A Beginner's Guide to Reddit We've plucked 13 subreddits where you'll find vibrant discussions about horse masks, infomercial actors and birds with arms. 1. r/YouTubeHaiku Sometimes you find poetry in the most unlikely places.
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| YouTube's 20 Most-Shared Ads in December | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 4:32 PM | Bob Al-Greene |
| In the last month of 2012, the most-shared YouTube ads included some favorites from earlier in the year. The most popular was YouTube's own blowout year-end wrap-up/mashup. The hilarious music video, set to the year's defining pop hits, "Gangnam Style" and "Call Me Maybe," brings in viral stars like PSY, Felicia Day and Jenna Marbles.
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| Chris Christie Calls House GOP 'Disgusting' in Epic Press Conference | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 3:42 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie lashed out Wednesday at House Republicans, specifically targeting Speaker of the House John Boehner after he failed to put to a vote an aid relief package for victims of Hurricane Sandy. "There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their speaker John Boehner," said Christie during a press conference.
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| 9 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do Online | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 3:13 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| You can do almost anything online these days -- order your groceries, video chat with a faraway friend, make your own business cards, find the answer to just about any query and countless other tasks.
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| 'Tumblr' Now More Popular Google Search Than 'Blog' | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 1:57 PM | The Daily Dot |
| “Tumblr” has surpassed “blog” as one of the most searched terms on Google. Tumblr overtook blog in December for the first time since the microblog network was started in February 2007, tweeted Laura Olin, Outbound social media director.
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| iPhone 5S to Be Available in Multiple Colors and Sizes? | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 1:20 PM | Charlie White |
| The next iPhone could be a whole lot more colorful. Brian White, an analyst at Topeka Capital Markets, claims that the next iPhone will be available in additional colors and more screen sizes than the iPhone 5. To get an idea of what White's talking about, we offer you the graphic above which shows the latest iPod Touch in its various colors.
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