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Year of Dragon kicks off Monday in Zodiac calendar, officials are bracing for baby boom not only in China and Taiwan but in Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Macau

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.

With TetherGPS, "getting lost in a book" will never mean the same thing again. A new app on the Android Market could turn your Nook Color into a GPS unit. TetherGPS is a newly launched app (it runs $2.99, but there's a free "lite" version) that turns devices you thought were condemned to a nomadic, GPS-less existence into street-smart, location-aware tablets.