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What product is going to be the iPad killer? Consumers and bloggers alike can't stop asking that question. Search for "iPad Killer" on Google and you'll return 778,000 results.

We've heard a lot about the notion of a digital wallet, but the tech itself seems slow to arrive. Now one credit giant is changing all that. We've heard a lot about the notion of a digital wallet , but the tech itself seems slow to arrive apart from one or two regional experiments, and the promise of more exciting tech in the future

Netflix and Hulu should probably be paying attention. HBO's lone-cowboy strategy might be brilliant. HBO Go , the app from HBO that gives streaming access to 1,400 titles (including the big ones--The Sopranos, True Blood, and so on) hit 1 million downloads in just a week

What's Google's new cloud-based music service got in common with Lady Gaga? Word of a forthcoming ad shot last weekend in NYC and pairing the tech and fame monsters might offer clues. Today at Google 's I/O conference, the company unveiled Google Music Beta, a cloud-based music service that enables users to store songs in a digital locker and stream them to any Android device--phones, tablets, laptops, or desktops

E-Ink Holdings, which makes the display tech behind Amazon's Kindle e-reader, can now print updatable digital displays onto cloth . Yep...you're already imagining what Google or Facebook could do with the ad space on your T-shirt , aren't you?

1. As well as being early in breaking the news about the death of Osama Bin Laden, Twitter was apparently the place the news was covered in real time -- albeit unwittingly .

The Florentine firm Baldi, which specializes in transforming precious metals and semiprecious stones into ravishing dream objects, has made the fantasy of bathing in a water-filled quarry a reality. For an average price of $925,000, it will extract a massive chunk of rock crystal from the Amazon and hand it ...

This chart, from Trendistic , shows just how wild Twitter is going over the Royal Wedding--and that's just for the word "wedding" -- "Will" and "Kate" are even more dramatic. 1

New add-ons come to the do-stuff-while-chatting app launched by a young Israeli entrepreneur. Innobell , an app from an Israeli tech wunderkind who had to pitch an Army general to score time to work on it , launches four new add-ons today

01 / Groupon > > For integrating web and the real-world shopping experience, changing consumer behavior, democratizing small businesses, and spawning an entire new category. The fastest-growing company in Web history, Groupon's flash deal site marries cents-off coupons to a Friday-after-Thanksgiving shopping frenzy. The company broke into the black just seven months after inception; globally, more than 500 copycat sites have already sprung up.

As the Sony PlayStation hack aftermath continues, it seems the Network won't be back in full for up to a week. Sony, in its advisory note (shown as a wordcloud above), cautions the 77 million victims to watch their bank accounts and check for phishing.

With Slashtag.it, you can search just about any site you'd want to, all from the same homepage or search bar. You might only save a few seconds on every search--but after a while, those seconds add up

Barnes & Noble just revamped its Nook tablet with a specially-tweaked Android makeover and a curated app store.

1. After its extended cloud services failure, Amazon's Web Services system is cranking back to life , bringing some of the web's big-names with it.

Today, Amazon announced a new feature for its Kindle e-reader called Library Lending, which will enable users to borrow e-books from more than 11,000 libraries in the U.S. The feature will launch later this year, and be available for all Kindle generations