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LinkedIn, with its database of over a hundred million names, is also an interesting trove of sociological data. Should you give your baby one of the most popular names for CEOs?

Apple's just spoken up publicly on the matter of iPhones storing location data. "Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone.

DIY survey platforms make constructing questionnaires easy, but the results could be biased, contradictory, or deeply misleading. Online surveys often have to compete for attention against the backdrop of Netflix , Gmail alerts, and 25 open browser tabs. The minimal cognitive effort given to answering questions may exacerbate all the problems that lead to biased or outright distorted results.

With the release of Portal 2, game developer Valve has followed-up the critically acclaimed original with more head-bursting puzzles, fanatical computers, and immersive story. We spoke with lead writer Erik Wolpaw, designer/engineer Jeep Barnett, and VP of marketing Doug Lombardi to find out how they created the setting of the game, what drives their innovative storytelling techniques, and more.

As the Sony PlayStation hack aftermath continues, it seems the Network won't be back in full for up to a week. Sony, in its advisory note (shown as a wordcloud above), cautions the 77 million victims to watch their bank accounts and check for phishing.

Photograph by Tanit Sakakini Padmasree Warrior Chief Technology Officer, CISCO San Jose Warrior, 50, traveled to Russia in 2010 on a State Department technology delegation that included eBay CEO John Donahoe and actor Ashton Kutcher. "THE PURPOSE OF the delegation was to explore and begin a dialogue with Russia.

Ethonomic Indicator of the Day: 26% -- the amount of global CO2 emissions that come from the production of traded goods and services.

Six months ago when I started working at Parallels as CEO I knew that I would not be able to accomplish everything I wanted overnight. So I asked myself, "What are the key challenges I want to tackle first?" I worked with my leadership team to define our business priorities and establish clear, measurable goals so we could achieve them to profitably grow our business. I created scorecards for our company with our executives and their teams so everyone understands our goals, what success looks like and how each person is accountable to helping the company achieve its goals.

Not long ago, Holly Myles , the digital media strategist at Eisbrenner Public Relations , attended a work function.

Whenever you surf the Web , websites use small bits of code called "cookies" to track your activity. The goal is to determine your interests and concerns and display ads calculated to appeal specifically to you. The downside is that advertisers know which sites you have visited; some even track your online purchases.

Guy Kawasaki became an inspiration to a generation of young entrepreneurs when he wrote the book The Art of the Start, which has become practically required reading for young Silicon Valley types. Recently released was Kawasaki's latest book, Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions

I don't know how urban myths made it before the Internet. I can't think of anything that has flourished more from it

There are multiple nuclear reactors teetering on fault lines around the country, and most of them are surrounded by pools of water filled with still-very-radioactive spent fuel. The radioactivity from the now-exposed spent fuel at Fukushima is part of the reason why the situation there is so dire.

Apple may be changing its usual iPhone update schedule to the fall, instead of a pre-summer launch in June/July--the news has popped up multiple times, and a source familiar with Apple's plans has also confirmed it with Fast Company. But Apple is a company that thrives on PR excitement...and the big hole in the update schedule before the iPhone 5 arrives could damage sales

A Swedish aerospace technology company beats swords into ploughshares, turning missile tech into what some have called "Google Maps on steroids." Nokia just released a product licensing the tech. Last week, Nokia released an upgraded version of it mapping service, Ovi.