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I am writing this from vacation on the North Fork of Long Island, the sound of waves crashing to my front, wineries spread out to my back, my BlackBerry in "off" position at my side. Connectedness and technology are some of the last things on my mind.

Sports teams finally find something to agree on. .title {text-transform:uppercase;font-family:arial;font-size:11px;} .caption {color:#666;font-size:11px;margin-bottom:15px;} .caption img {padding-bottom:2px;} Photo by Annie Marie Musselman Sports in America will always be an indulgent birthright. You don't go to the ball game to worry about whether the world will melt

Instead of simply blocking HIV from replicating, a new drug in trial stages causes it to mutate. If it works, it could eventually fully eliminate HIV in people who have the disease, freeing them from a lifetime of drugs. HIV is big business

These 10 brands attempted, some more successfully than others, to bounce back from potentially game-ending disasters. Here's what you can learn from them. During an ice storm at New York's JFK airport, JetBlue made the regrettable decision to keep passengers aboard a plane on the runway while food supplies dwindled and outrage grew

Quitting college at 18 to move to Silicon Valley and pursue your startup is the stuff of Hollywood dreams. Now add a billionaire benefactor--PayPal founder and Facebook investor Peter Thiel--bankrolling you and under pressure to prove that entrepreneurship can rival Harvard as a path to success. The inaugural class of Thiel Fellows is blogging about their experiences for Fast Company

Nielsen Gets Even Better At Measuring Stuff .

One rabbi, who gets his insurance through a corporation he formed, is willing to marry for a good deal. Some company owners will go to great lengths to save money, and then there's Rabbi Craig Ezring.

Today, MTV launched the WatchWith iPhone app, a service designed to drive network engagement through social sharing, photos and video, rewards, blog posts, and more. It's part of an aggressive push by the network to capture the " second screen experience ," an industry term used to describe the smartphones and tablets people turn to alongside TV. Distractions from our precious television shows used to be few and far between: the occasional power outage, a knock at the front door or a ring of the downstair's telephone, a parent demanding the plug pulled lest our brains turn to mush

The droughts in Somalia are creating the latest refugee crisis. At the same time, Western countries are clamping down on asylum claims.

The world's largest social gaming company is under fire for allegedly infringing on patents found in nearly every one of its games. As the world's largest social gaming company preps for its $1 billion IPO, Zynga will reportedly have to deal with a new lawsuit

Brooklyn Industries founder Lexy Funk shares how she went from making bags out of old billboard material to running retail stores around the country.

Your GPS could soon know how high you are. Rice University scientists have written some smart software that better interprets the signals coming from space that tell a GPS device its altitude, with an accuracy of around a centimer. You may never have noticed it, but even when your car's unit is reporting your position to within a few meters, its guess as to your altitude is very poor--much worse than one centimeter.

We put cars under rigorous tests to determine if and how they will break.

This has been an explosive summer--markets in turmoil, cities in flames, politics in meltdown. So it's a relief to enjoy and learn from an explosion of a different sort--the explosion of creativity taking place this August in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the renowned Edinburgh Fringe Festival .

Last month we told you the best options for front office software. This month we asked the experts to weigh in on back office software to improve your business operations. Never have there been more software choices for the small business.