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Productivity is a hot topic because so many people (especially entrepreneurs) are productivity-challenged.

According to Twitter's VP of Engineering, the social site has seen more

Distractions at work are nothing new. Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) wrote about strategies for dealing with work distractions way back in the 1300s. In his Life of Solitude , Petrarch offers the following advice for the medieval scholar: "Close the doors of your senses in order to achieve solitude in the presence of other people." Today, you will find many people doing exactly that in coffee shops and other public places.

We love our smart phones. Except when they run out of batteries. And we find ourselves cruelly cut off from the wireless world.

“There are apps that ask what your mood is, or track the transmission of disease," says Nolan, whose new, J.J. Abrams-produced drama premieres tomorrow on CBS.

Yes, the game-changing device still accounts for about 7 percent of quarterly revenues. But Apple's money could be better spent elsewhere. Here's why and where

If you’re a small business owner with customers on the go, or employees that work in the field or remotely, you may want to provide them with a mobile app to connect with your business.

HTC refuses to admit it's new Android "Rhyme" is a chick phone.

Fun apps for your phone aren't the only startups that need financial support. These four companies will now have the opportunity to get funding for their ideas to change the face of energy use. It's a rough world out there for cleantech startups

As Apple, we assume, gears up for a press event to reveal the iPhone 5--and possibly a handful of other innovations--the rumor mill spins up, and leaks from inside Apple reach the press. Here's what's going on: Leaked Parts A number of leaked parts purporting to show the partly disassembled guts of an updated iPhone have surfaced online

John Vechey, a college dropout, turned his passion for video games into a company called PopCap, which was sold this summer for about $750 million. But for Vechey, the process of selling was hardly just fun and games. Fourteen years ago, John Vechey dropped out of college to build a video game—but ended up building a video game empire.

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Facing a bleak economic outlook is one thing.

AT&T is making it drop-dead easy for developers to use the company's internal infrastructure to build mobile apps--including some that could be used by customers of other carriers or networks. Here's why. Amazon Web Services was a game-changer for application developers.

"You've got people saying, 'I'm here,' whatever 'here' means. 'Here' may mean I'm at a restaurant or a ball game," says James D.