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Will cash and credit survive the Digital Age? According to a new survey conducted by Mobio Identity Systems, 94 percent of North Americans would be happy to complete payments through their phone if they knew the system were secure. Most merchants and small businesses choose to only accept cash or check to avoid paying the extra fee attached to processing a credit card

In 2011, the world will emit more than 35 Billion tons of carbon dioxide. Every day of the year, almost a hundred million tons will be released into the atmosphere.

Google's Android OS has made great strides in seizing marketshare among smartphones, but the fragmentation of devices has finally caught Google's attention--for its Honeycomb tablet OS, hardware specs will be much tighter.

1. Today in Europe Microsoft will file an antitrust complaint against Google with the authorities

We continue our examination of the business book The Innovator's Dilemma with an interview of author Clayton Christensen. Why was the book successful, and what technologies will be disruptive this decade

Last year, Google launched Buzz , a social network "built right into Gmail, so you don't have to peck out an entirely new set of friends from scratch," boasted the search giant. "Buzz brings this network to the surface by automatically setting you up to follow the people you email and chat with the most…[and] building an easy-to-use sharing experience that richly integrates photos, videos and links, and makes it easy to share publicly or privately." Much to Google's dismay, Buzz turned out to be a huge bust, and not only because it was incredibly unpopular among users. The social network was riddled with privacy concerns, so much so that the Federal Trade Commission charged the company with using "deceptive tactics" and violating "its own privacy promises to consumers." Today, Google settled with the FTC.

Google encroaches on social, with its new +1 feature. You click on stuff that your friends like.

BlackBerry maker RIM just revealed it's signed up to license the patent portfolio of Nathan Myhrvold's IP firm Intellectual Ventures. This will give the company access to a lot of innovative thinking and 30,000 patents. Intellectual Ventures was founded in 2000 as a kind of innovation, invention, and IP asset library or archive, but unlike a "dead" patent hoarder, IV actually raises money (more than $5 billion so far from Fortune 500 companies and academic institutions) to action some of its ideas--most recently we saw the firm associated with a novel nuclear reactor design that could have prevented the disaster that's befalling Japan

A new coating for concrete structures could result in seriously tough structures that better resist damage and thus saves money in reconstruction and repair. Better yet, the coating relies on waste ash from burning coal in power stations.

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Almost 50% of psychiatric patients get a change in diagnosis over a 10-year period--meaning they may end up taking a slew of unhelpful drugs until doctors finally decide what mental illness they have. But what if a simple blood test could help discern whether patients have schizophrenia, major depression, or bipolar disorder? Rules-Based Medicine , a company that specializes in research and development for drugs and diagnostics, thinks it can.

At the photo shoot for our April feature , the director of Pom Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold talks about the process of scavenging for cash in exchange for blatant product placement in his film ... about product placement.

As I came through airport security in Connecticut, upon presentation of my California driver's license, the TSA officer asked me, "Aren't you folks worried about how that big Japan quake is going to hit you next?" I was glad to be able to tell him that we're not any more worried than we were before, and that a writer had just made that up.

When my wife and I saw the ad for a small, lemon-yellow cottage, we immediately knew we wanted that house. It was in Toronto's Beaches community. Newly married and without kids, we envisioned going for long walks on the beach and then retreating to our cottage abode

With oddly simultaneous timing, a number of Apple's competitors have made bold statements alleging the iPad is poor in certain ways, not suited for particular uses, or even doomed to fail. You could be forgiven for thinking they're running interference because of fear. We marshall the evidence here.