With the rise of GPS-enabled touchscreen phones like the iPhone, you'd think that the future for stand-alone GPS makers looks bleak. Except that these companies are being surprisingly agile, and are embracing smartphones to make the best GPS navigators ever.
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Feed SubscriptionWhat Apple’s Balance Sheet Will Reveal About The Tech Industry
Apple's due to reveal all in its second-quarter call tonight at 5 p.m. EDT. The statistics will be telling, since they encompass the Verizon iPhone and the iPad 2's early sales
Read More »Trove, WaPo Labs’s Personalized News Site, Plays Hot-Or-Not With Articles
Also: Barack Obama will be a fan of the Washington Post Company product, according to a begging-to-be-viral promotional video. The Washington Post Company gets with the times in a big way today, with Trove, a personalized news aggregation site. Trove personalizes news in a couple of ways--it uses Facebook Connect to cull information about your interests, and it offers pairs of articles for you to choose from, Hot-or-Not style
Read More »Video: Catherine Zeta-Jones gets candid on Bipolar struggle
Catherine Zeta-Jones is speaking out in People Magazine on her treatment at a mental health facility for bipolar II disorder, following husband Michael Douglas' battle with cancer. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports.
Read More »Calcium supplements may increase heart risk
Study shows increased risk of heart attacks for women taking calcium supplements
Read More »Tablet Wars: Intel Joins Game
For years, PCs were often referred to as Wintel machines. The "tel" coming from Intel's role as Windows's preferred chipmaker-in-chief
Read More »Woman explains record 52 plastic surgery operations
Cindy Jackson, 55, tells TODAY’s Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb that her “highly developed sense of aesthetics” encouraged her desire to achieve “classic proportion” through 52 different surgical procedures.
Read More »Paging Dr. 420: Which states let you blaze for better health?
Many states now permit medical use of marijuana, but limits vary widely on who can use and how much they can possess
Read More »Medical marijuana: Which 15 states permit pot?
Which places permit pot for patients? You might be surprised at some that do
Read More »Life-size Barbie’s shocking dimensions (PHOTO): Would she be anorexic?
College student who battled eating disorders creates life-size doll to help other women
Read More »How Did the BP Oil Spill Affect Gulf Coast Wildlife? [Slide Show]
COCODRIE, La.--The tendrils of coastline here were some of the first shores to see oil after BP's Macondo well blowout last year.
Read More »BP’s Gulf Oil Spill: One Year Later
One year after the blowout at the Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico and subsequent burning and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, what has been learned? [More]
Read More »A New Threat to the Amazon: Gold
Gold-hungry Peruvian miners are eroding the country's portion of the Amazon rainforest at an alarming rate, according to a new study. Small-scale gold panners in the Andean nation have responded to soaring gold prices by revving up the pace of gold mining, stripping the region of its forests.
Read More »What LeBron James And The Miami Heat Teach Us About Teamwork
LeBron James He’s the self-proclaimed king of the NBA, a twotime league MVP who is used to getting his way.
Read More »Pressel to donate half of earnings in Japan return
Morgan Pressel is returning to Japan to defend her title, and she will give half of whatever she makes to the American Red Cross toward relief efforts for tsunami and earthquake victims.
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