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Meet the 2.0 car service: Uber is a start-up that lets you book a stylish ride from a smartphone app. Imagine your flight arrives four hours later than expected.

Square promises to put an end to the headaches of traditional purchases: having to fumble with your wallet, exchange and swipe the credit card, wait for a paper receipt. But someone still needs to convince merchants.

INQ just revealed that its so-called Facebookphone is getting a location-based services layer supplied through Foursquare , with the check-in game deeply embedded in the OS. This move adds all sorts of additional powers to the phone without requiring running an app, and it's a real coup for Foursquare.

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Still panicked after the Fukushima disaster? China's not: They're sending nuclear technology to everyone--even Pakistan.

Apple and Google testified yesterday before a committee examining smartphone user privacy, particularly regarding location tracking. The first conclusion: Senators don't understand the tech, nor do most people.

1. Microsoft is poised to announce , maybe later this morning, that the rumored acquisition of Skype is actually true. New hints suggest the price may have pushed as high as $8.5 billion, and Microsoft is obviously imagining how Skype will plug into its enterprise offerings

Apple is rumored to be adding a host of new features to its iPhone and iPad OS to make it a better rival to Android, just as new stats confirm Android is "winning" the smartphone war. What comes next? Apple is rumored to be adding a host of new features to its iPhone and iPad OS to make it a better rival to Android.

The longtime VP tells us how a simple call for a pizza delivery influences the company's thinking on local products and searching. Yesterday Google introduced a new feature for its Google Places pages: Business Photos , which essentially brings Street View into the interiors of businesses.

Google exec Marissa Mayer talked at a conference Wednesday about how the company has changed--and hasn't--under recently installed CEO Larry Page. Longtime Google executive Marissa Mayer was asked at a conference on Wednesday what had changed, now that Larry Page has moved into the CEO spot.

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?

I'm not a born networker. I go to a lot of events and conferences, but I'm not great at walking up to strangers, unless I have a specific goal in mind. Even when I do go home with a fistful of business cards, there's a good chance they'll wind up crammed in the back of a drawer

And other stories about how the news of Al Qaeda’s leader’s passing ping-ponged around the web and social media, from BNO News to George W. Bush. It was one of the most tweeted--but not the single most tweeted--events, Twitter tells us.

"Finally" is the headline on Apple's homepage today announcing the arrival of the white iPhone. It's Apple poking fun at itself for a long, drawn-out techno failure, and indicates how it's spun the affair into incredibly positive PR

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