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A portrait of a particular circle of friends symbolizes "the biggest problem in social networking"-- grouping the right friends in the right ways . Photo by All Chrome See more of the best photos of 2011

How can schools--desperate to increase technology in the classroom--decide which tablets they should invest in? All the new tablets are an opportunity and a nail-biter for schools: Do you go with the oh-so-sleek iPad?

You don't need to talk like a robot or an English language professor to control and dictate messages to your phone or computer. Here's how the speech-to-text software makers suggest you should speak. Nobody talks on the phone anymore, but people are talking at their phones.

The Fast Company reader's essential rundown of who's breaking into and shaking up your tech space--updated all day. Google Takes On Skype With Chrome Addition Google wants to add open-source video and telephony technology to the Chrome browser, meaning that anyone could use the code to integrate free (or reduced) calling into a browser interface. So far, Google's previous attempt at VoIP inside Gmail, Google Voice , hasn't dethroned Skype, its closest competitor

Google has shaken up the computing world with its rentable Chromebooks using its own Chrome OS.

Google clearly thinks so! Google announced this week that it will be launching a new sort of netbook called a "Chromebook" on June 15th.