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What product is going to be the iPad killer? Consumers and bloggers alike can't stop asking that question. Search for "iPad Killer" on Google and you'll return 778,000 results.

Netflix and Hulu should probably be paying attention. HBO's lone-cowboy strategy might be brilliant. HBO Go , the app from HBO that gives streaming access to 1,400 titles (including the big ones--The Sopranos, True Blood, and so on) hit 1 million downloads in just a week

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Most Grads Live At Home Polish up those baseball trophies and framed prom photos, Mom and Dad, Tommy's moving back after college graduation. A survey by Twentysomething Inc.

New phone and tablet tech means you'll never have to get up from your couch again. (And you'll save energy in other ways, too.) Google has already made its intentions to dive bomb into the energy space clear , but so far, it has left out how this relates to its Android phones

As Microsoft's Bing increasingly focuses on enabling search to "help you complete tasks," rather than simply "find stuff," Skype could become an important part of the user experience. We’ve written before about how Bing is trying to turn search into an app.

Reinvention, innovation, and cultivation make Houston our City of the Year for 2011. IT'S PAST 11 P.M., AND I'M walking with my husband in downtown Houston. We've just seen a play at the Alley Theatre, and the stroll to our car, which I'd left at my office, gives us time to dissect the show and enjoy the city at night

The CrowdOptic app for iPhone overlays statistics in real-time, enhancing performers, players, and songs. Imagine watching a basketball game and seeing all of the vital statistics surround your favorite player without taking your eye off the game. CrowdOptic aims to visually enhance the event experience through a heads-up display on an iPhone .

The push for efficiency defines many organizations, and Greenleaf Book Group is no exception. I push my staff to eliminate silly wastes of time and money as often as I can. We've adopted best practices from many organizations and have become a training ground for operational efficacy.

It's been ten years since Douglas Adams, science fiction author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, died suddenly and Twitter is alive with comments and references to the man and his works. Google has chosen a different theme for today's Doodle , though: The would-be 117th birthday of Martha Graham, the U.S

Global warming is altering--and threatening to erase--much more of the Marshall Islands than the shorelines of this independent Micronesian nation that once served as a Pacific Ocean nuclear weapons test site for the U.S. It is changing the vocabulary and heightening the risk of extinguishing the language and culture of daily life. Locals already have integrated the phrases "climate change" and "seawall" into the nation's two predominant dialects of the Marshallese language, which is unique to this archipelagic country.

Do you ever feel like all the great programmers already have jobs?

GolfChannel: About all Tiger Woods can say about the injuries to his knee and Achilles' tendon is that he is "good enough to play" in The Players Championship.

What's Google's new cloud-based music service got in common with Lady Gaga? Word of a forthcoming ad shot last weekend in NYC and pairing the tech and fame monsters might offer clues. Today at Google 's I/O conference, the company unveiled Google Music Beta, a cloud-based music service that enables users to store songs in a digital locker and stream them to any Android device--phones, tablets, laptops, or desktops

Facebook shut down the Syrian military's official page, and Syrian Facebook users began encountering a primitive certificate-forging scam seemingly carried out by the government. See what happens when cyberwarfare comes to the formerly friendly Facebook. The “Facebook revolution” line has been used endlessly in the Middle East.

If all goes according to plan, New Yorkers will soon be able to abandon their subway cards and cab fare in favor of a cheaper, healthier, and more eco-friendly option: public bicycles.The Big Apple's first widespread public bike-sharing program will encourage commuters to rent bikes for 30-minute intervals in a zone south of midtown Manhattan and some surrounding neighborhoods. Largely geared at those running errands or with short commutes, the bike share proposes allowing renters to pick up bicycles from one location, and drop them off at another, with stations located every few blocks