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Delicious social bookmarker to be refreshed, Google says sorry for Google+ spam attack, and the whot-selling tablet market.

Suddenly, video chat is basically inescapable, if not always necessary. Very soon, "I don't have a camera" won't fly, and some of us will have to actually stay seated during conference calls. A few days ago, Facebook broke its text-and-photo format wide open and launched instant Skype video calling for Facebook friends .

What will it be like? That depends on whether you jump for the iPhone 5 expected to come out this fall or the iPhone 6 expected to come out in 2012. If it's an iPhone 5: 1

"Hey, I'm a Mac, I'm off to college!", new investment puts Twitter at $8 billion.

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When Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt said recently that a "gang of four" rules today's tech industry, he notably left out Microsoft, arguing that Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook control the landscape. Here's why he's wrong. The parallels between Microsoft and Facebook have always been strong.

Twitter hosts town hall meeting, App store hits 15 billion sold, Facebook fights back, and more. President Obama tweets

Apple's upcoming iPhone 5 will be "thinner and lighter" than the iPhone 4 and also sport an 8-mega pixel camera, according sources who spoke to official Apple leakbucket

“We call it the difference between mechanics and magic,” says Bala Krishnan (right) of the ultra-intuitive TV remote he created with partner Thiru Arunachalam. | Photograph by Toby Burditt How Peel cracked the code of navigating the gazillion-channel universe. AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT, there are thousands of programs ready to stream via satellite dishes and cable wires -- everything from Jersey Shore to Hawaii Five-0

Italian cops nab Anonymous hackers, Japan finds rare earths key to electronics, Google's missing Realtime search. This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day

Author Richard P. Rumelt offers three simple steps to developing a strategy for your business. The book: Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters, by Richard P.

Tech Trends columnist John Brandon gave two DIY app building tools a whirl. Here are the results. Over the past few months, I've been getting loads of PR pitches about software that lets you create your own smartphone applications—no coding or design skills required

With the initial fuss about Google+ dying down, the real potential for the social system to challenge popular net apps is breaking through. Foursquare-challenging check-ins If you run the mobile app version of Google+ you can't help but spot the Check-ins feature --it's right there on the front page.

The reviews for HP's TouchPad are in, and we have a consensus: It mimics the iPad well but is not yet a proper replacement; WebOS is sexy but not yet perfect or fully mature; the TouchPad is a solid but late entry to the tablet market; and where are the apps? This last point is most important. Only a day after reviewers skewered HP for offering just 300 TouchPad apps at launch, Apple hit 100,000 apps on the iPad

There are now 100,000 iPad apps, a new look for Gmail, the mysterious Hamptons ATM millionaire, and more.