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• Gadget Lab Podcast: The New iPad and a Host of Badass Gadgets
  On this week's Gadget Lab Podcast, the gang shows off Apple's newest iPad and takes a look at some seriously hardcore gadgets as part of our Month of Badass Gadgets.
  03.26.12

• New iPad Versus 5 Tablet Competitors: Which Runs Hottest?
  The new iPad does get warm when playing graphic-intensive games. But, so do other tablets on the market.
  03.26.12

• Disney's Tangled Storybook Deluxe App for iOS
  03.26.12

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Mar. 26
  Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
  03.26.12

• Explore the Wonders of Geology iPad App
  03.25.12

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Mar. 25
  Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
  03.25.12

• Microsoft, West Coast Customs Create the Ultimate 400-hp 'Device'
  Microsoft and West Coast Customs team up to create the ultimate connected car, complete with customizable displays, XBox Kinetic integration and 400 horsepower.
  03.24.12

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Mar. 24
  Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
  03.24.12

• Microsoft Gits With the Cool Kids of Open Source
  Microsoft is gitting with the times. On Friday, the company announced that CodePlex -- the website it spawned for open source software projects -- will support Git, a system that's widely used in the open source world to manage software development projects.
  03.23.12

• Facebook Condemns Companies That Demand User Logins
  Facebook chief privacy officer Erin Egan has condemned employers that ask -- or demand -- usernames and passwords from employees and prospective hires. "If you are a Facebook user, you should never have to share your password, let anyone access your account, or do anything that might jeopardize the security of your account or violate the privacy of your friends."
  03.23.12

• The Translucent Cloud: Balancing Privacy, Convenience
  When a cloud service is offered for free, supported by ads that use my personal info to profile me, this exposure is the price I pay for convenient access to my own data. Is this a reasonable trade-off? There is a better way, writes Jon Udell.
  03.23.12

• The Translucent Cloud: Balancing Privacy, Convenience
  When a cloud service is offered for free, supported by ads that use my personal info to profile me, this exposure is the price I pay for convenient access to my own data. Is this a reasonable trade-off? There is a better way, writes Jon Udell.
  03.23.12

• Signs in Mountain Lion Point To "Retina" Display MacBooks Sooner Than Later
  03.23.12

• Hands-On: TweetDeck Wants to Be Your Pro Twitter Client Again
  TweetDeck has finally updated to a new version that I think I can proudly use and recommend -- at least to other slightly mental Twitter users, who, like myself, can take advantage of what TweetDeck can do to monitor a ton of information on a big screen.
  03.23.12

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Mar. 23
  Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
  03.23.12

• A Larger iPhone Is Near Inevitable -- But How Big Will It Be?
  Now that the new iPad is here, speculation has shifted back to the iPhone -- specifically, whether Apple will be upping the screen size of its Retina display smartphone. Sources agree the next phone will be bigger. The real question becomes, Just how much?
  03.22.12

• What Google Must Do to Keep Android Tablets Alive
  So how can Google and friends make a compelling case for customers to choose Android tablets over the iPad? Here are three avenues that Google might consider to keep Android tablets ¿ or at least some of them ¿ alive and kicking.
  03.22.12

• How Safe Is Your Data Stored in Apple's iCloud?
  Our friend over at Ars Technica answer reader questions, and this one seems like one many iPhone and iPad users will want to know, not to mention future OS X Mountain Lion users: How safe is my data stored in iCloud? Chris Foresman's answer also touches more generally on the issue of storage in the cloud vs. on-premises.
  03.22.12

• Data Mining and Kids Part 2: The Google Echo Chamber
  03.22.12

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Mar. 22
  Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
  03.22.12

• Apple's New Fraud Problem: Cracked Walls and Broken Promises
  Apple¿s announcement of a dividend and stock buyback was a welcomed boon to already well rewarded shareholders. Yet to be addressed, however, is a critical issue that affects even more vital stakeholders ¿ its customers and developers. The rising chorus of complaints about fraud perpetrated through the App Store is a major risk for Apple¿s golden status.
  03.21.12

• Not Easy Being Green: Are Solar Farms 'Pure Marketing'?
  Cloudline asked recently how green the cloud was, and whether green claims were more "greenwashing" than reality. Now Amazon's James Hamilton is questioning Apple and Facebook's seemingly easy-being-green data center solar farms.
  03.21.12

• Will the High-Res iPad Finally See Enterprise Action?
  Pundits seem to think that the third-generation iPad's high-resolution "retina" display will lift the final barrier that's been keeping the iPad from becoming a mainstream business tool. But that remains an open question.
  03.21.12

• iPad 3 Makes Images Sparkle and Reading Easy
  03.21.12

• Let's GeekSource an App!
  03.21.12

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Mar. 21
  Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
  03.21.12

• 3M's Mobile Projector for iOS Devices Is Amazing
  03.20.12