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Toyota plans to teach its well-honed assembly line techniques to community organizations like the St.

Facebook may be a fabulous way to get your casual game idea noticed, but there's a bigger, better Web outside Facebook's blue-painted cage--just ask FarmVille. Social2Web wants to help you take your game there. Think of Social2Web by Adknowledge as a kind of virtual scalpel, helping you surgically pluck your carefully crafted game from Facebook and transplant it elsewhere, presumably where it'll make you, not Mark Zuckerberg, more money.

It's Facebook's world.

Google announced last week that it is shutting down personal health record service Google Health. The underlying cause: the people who use Google Health aren't the people making health care decisions. The Internet has been a boon for consumers who want to learn more about their medical symptoms and conditions.

By hooking up just a few cars to a grid that allows engineers to adjust conditions based on real-time traffic conditions, everyone would be blessed with congestion-free rides. It’s safe to say, despite Nevada's recent approval of fully automated vehicles , that we Americans are ambivalent about the prospect of networked cars

The Indian government has put Chinese mobile giant Huawei in charge of inspecting imported smartphone equipment for secret spyware. But who's spying on whom? The Indian government is teaming up with Chinese tech giant Huawei to search imported smartphones and communications devices for signs of malware and spyware.

Waiting for a translator can mean life or death in a hospital. Now doctors have can have a native speaker in their pocket. Doctors working in cities with large immigrant populations often come up against a troubling issue: They can't understand many of the non-native English speakers that come into their hospitals

Pre-pay cell phones globally dominate 70% of the market. As Android explodes and Apple ponders an iPhone Lite, prepare yourself for the true smartphone skirmish. As noted in an analysis by Asymco, the figures for global cell phone use show that 70% of the world relies on pre-pay cell phones and their tariffs and unsubsidized handset prices

AOL is flexing yet another of its gooey tentacles to get a grip on a market: It's partnering with Slacker Radio for streaming Net radio. Pandora

You know how your iPhone is now an essential tool for finding something to eat?

Nokia's market share in all phone sales in Australia for the first quarter of 2011 was 24.6%--great, if it hadn't been 49.5% in the first quarter of 2010. Nokia's market share has halved.

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The Vatican has announced the launch of a cutting-edge website designed for browsing via social media. But how will Papal homilies play on Twitter? The faithful will now be able to keep up with the Catholic Church's news and opinions via Facebook and Twitter .

LivingSocial has acquired popular pan-Arab coupon site GoNabit for an undisclosed sum, which is good news for local startups and quite bad news for Groupon's struggling Middle East operations. LivingSocial announced the acquisition of pan-Arab deals site GoNabit for an undisclosed sum today

Some people are natural-born speakers. They were those eager young souls who volunteered to read aloud in grade school and now welcome any opportunity to present in front of a group