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• iPhone Outsells All Verizon Android Phones Combined
  01.25.12

• ScanSnap 1100 Fits the Bill for Personal Scanning
  01.25.12

• Get Some Grubs With Gears of War: The Board Game
  01.25.12

• Millions Upon Millions Sold: Apple's Blowout Quarter Puts Android Partners to Shame
  There's no slowing the Apple sales train. The company released its first-quarter earnings results to shareholders on Tuesday, blowing away analyst expectations and beating sales records across multiple categories.
  01.24.12

• Why Rakuten's Kobo Is Amazon's Only Global Competition
  It's quite possible that soon Kobo will be the only company standing between Amazon, Apple and world domination of e-publishing. So if you haven't been paying attention, this is just the time to tune in.
  01.24.12

• Hands-On: Evi App Brings Siri-Like Smarts to iOS and Android
  If you're looking for a straightforward, legal way enjoy Siri-like functionality on Android hardware -- or any Apple gear other than the fanciest of iPhones -- you'll have to enlist a Siri copycat app. The latest of the bunch, released Monday, is called Evi, which we've been testing for the last 24 hours.
  01.24.12

• One Big Database Could Save the Music Business with Billions of Tiny Rivulets
  01.24.12

• Thingamagoop, a DIY Electronic Instrument
  01.24.12

• In-Depth Review - Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters
  01.24.12

• Tweaking Its Identity Stance, Google+ Now Allows Nicknames
  In the initial Google+ sign-up process, questionable profile names were flagged by Google's algorithmic recognition system, and users were prompted to try again. The same system will still recognize alternate names, but will begin to allow specific exceptions like nicknames, maiden names and names with alternative spelling.
  01.24.12

• An Evening With Dr. Demento
  The legendary DJ of geeky music takes a college crowd on a trip down memory lane.
  01.24.12

• The Fifty-Dollar Follow Focus
  01.24.12

• Why a Cheap iPad Won't Threaten the Kindle Fire
  When it launched last November, Amazon's Kindle Fire was touted as the first tablet to seriously challenge Apple's iPad. Since then, the iPad and Kindle Fire have seemingly been embroiled in a zero-sum war of tablet market dominance. But perhaps that's not exactly what's going on.
  01.23.12

• Expertsourcing (Or, How to Test a Product Without Losing It in a Bar)
  The race is all about finding and fixing bugs faster, cheaper and everywhere, in every condition, before an end-user even gets a chance to see them. If that means rounding up an ad hoc flash mob of experts to swarm countries from Turkey to Indonesia with smartphones in hand, so be it.
  01.23.12

• Livin' at the Corner of Dad & Technology: The Influence of Music
  01.23.12

• 4 Quick Card Games
  01.23.12

• Past Reviews: How'd Stuff Hold Up?
  01.23.12

• Learn About Half Notes With GarageBand Music Theory
  01.23.12

• Q&A;: Android Design Chief Details Google's Mobile Future
  Mike Isaac sat down with Android UX design chief Matias Duarte at CES for an exclusive pre-launch interview, and picked his brain about Android, design in general, and competing operating systems like Windows Phone and webOS ¿ the platform he architected for Palm years ago.
  01.23.12

• iPad a Solid Education Tool, Study Reports
  More and more schools are jumping on the digital bandwagon and adopting iPads for daily use in the classroom. Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt performed a pilot study to see how effective iPad learning is. Using an iPad textbook for Algebra 1 courses, it found that 20 percent more students scored 'Proficient' or 'Advanced' in standardized tests than their paper textbook using counterparts.
  01.20.12

• Magic Feet Charges Keyboards, Mice Wirelessly
  01.20.12

• The Adventures of Peter Pan Flies Onto the iPad
  01.20.12

• Opinion: Why Apple's iBooks Initiatives Won't Revolutionize Education
  There will be a lot of commentary that will make parents and educators think that Apple has done it again. But be wary of reports that say Apple has "revolutionized the education industry." They haven't.
  01.20.12

• What the Latest iTunes Update Failed to Fix
  Today Apple unveiled a suite of new features aimed at bringing education into the iPad era, accompanied by an update to iTunes 10.5.3. But what iTunes didn't receive were much-needed improvements in three key areas.
  01.19.12

• Why Education Publishing Is Big Business
  On the heels of Apple¿s big education and iBooks event, it¿s worth taking a quick snapshot of the education publishing industry as it stands today.
  01.19.12

• Engage: Apple's New Tools for Interactive Books on iPad
  At Thursday's event, Apple's Phil Schiller said that 1.5 million iPads were in use in education settings, leveraging more than 20,000 education applications. Today, Apple's giving away brand-new tools that ensures the company will be able to sell many, many more.
  01.19.12

• HiNation HighLite, A Water-Resistant Solar Charger With Built-In Light
  01.19.12