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Hosting an event can easily cost companies thousands, even millions of dollars—and the bills rack up fast.

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.

By now we're grudgingly accustomed to those Captcha code boxes popping up online to verify we're humans and not bots.

Imagine Twitter had a dating service, where the only options were to propose dates, respond to dates, or directly message the person. A user could see the person's picture and basic information, and if interested, click a button to indicate that.

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Apple 's filed a bumper crop of patents recently, and some of them hint at pretty neat features in future iDevices.

My company’s vice president of engineering, John Maddalozzo, attended the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) festival here in Austin a few weeks ago to learn all the cool things happening right now in technology. One of the panels he attended was called “Stop Listening to Your Customers” . John noted that the three companies Silverback, Usabilla, and Ethnio were mentioned during the panel.

Last year, Google launched Buzz , a social network "built right into Gmail, so you don't have to peck out an entirely new set of friends from scratch," boasted the search giant. "Buzz brings this network to the surface by automatically setting you up to follow the people you email and chat with the most…[and] building an easy-to-use sharing experience that richly integrates photos, videos and links, and makes it easy to share publicly or privately." Much to Google's dismay, Buzz turned out to be a huge bust, and not only because it was incredibly unpopular among users. The social network was riddled with privacy concerns, so much so that the Federal Trade Commission charged the company with using "deceptive tactics" and violating "its own privacy promises to consumers." Today, Google settled with the FTC.

I get a ton of paper snail mail. For the snail mail that comes to the office? It could be unavoidable since I’m the CEO of my company .

We've seen conflicting data concerning the role of mobile media in our lives.

About to get coffee with someone, but can't remember who this "Jake" guy on your calendar is? A new web-based service mines your calendar, email, and LinkedIn contacts to build a quick cheatsheet before your meeting.

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