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I was at lunch at Japango with some of my Foundry Group gang yesterday. When I went to my house in Alaska last July, I took a Mac with me but left my PC at home. Ross bet me $100 that before the month was out I'd beg him to fedex my PC to me.

Reid Hoffman, angel investor , co-founder of LinkedIn and Fast Company Most Creative Person , took the stage at SXSW interactive as part of the distinguished speaker series, and immediately brought the ballroom back to the future. “What are we stumbling toward here?” recalling the visions of a shiny future of yester-technology

In January, Mozilla announced plans to add a "Do Not Track" feature to Firefox, a tool that would allow users to opt out from having advertisers and other sites track their web-surfing habits. As Mozilla has readily admitted , the feature is far from perfect: Backwardly, tracking companies would actually have to agree not to monitor a user's browsing patterns, even once he or she opts out

A new "innovation center" opens in Mexico City. It's good business for local startups--and for IBM

Chris Wragge talks to nuclear energy expert Cham Dallas and Dr. Jennifer Ashton about radiation fears spreading to the U.S

Google's tools don't easily translate into synthesized speech or Braille. Now the National Federation of the Blind has issued a federal complaint with the Justice Department, alleging that university use of Google Apps for Education amounts to discrimination.

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Technology has greatly aided our lives and made several previously difficult tasks easy. But technology has also brought some negative changes.

From Video Commenting to iReport Integration, mobile consumers and videophiles are about to have a lot more on-the-go options from CNN.com--and presumably others to come.

Most people who buy a Big Mac aren't concerned about where it came from--or whether the accompanying fries are made using sustainable palm oil. But apparently, McDonald's cares. The company recently announced its Sustainable Land Management Commitment , a pledge to work with suppliers that ensure agricultural raw materials and packaging come from sustainable sources.

Today, it seems, most young entrepreneurs are focused on creating the next great tech product or Web service. After all, who can blame them?

In what would position Netflix as an even bigger threat to the major cable players, the company might soon offer original programming, according to Deadline Hollywood . The streaming TV and movie powerhouse has reportedly outbid networks from HBO to AMC for the rights to the David Fincher and Kevin Spacey series House of Cards. Nellie Andreeva calls it "probably the biggest gamble" in the company's history, and reports that while negotiations are still ongoing, Netflix has offered to commit to two seasons of the drama series in a deal that could be worth more than $100 million.

Conscious that as leader in online advertising its systems sometimes contain ads to illicit services, Google is tightening up its policies . Just as the U.S. authorities tighten up their stance against piracy and counterfeiting online, Google has revealed that it's taking a number of steps to "tune" its systems to "keep out the bad guys" who use its systems to advertise counterfeit goods and services.

Coca-Cola made headlines in 2009 when it introduced the PlantBottle, a beverage bottle made from petroleum-based materials and 30% plant-based materials. The company's ultimate goal has been to make a 100% plant-based bottle--but now PepsiCo has beaten it to the punch.

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