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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Business Day Personal Tech

Minh Uong/The New York Times

If a gadget breaks, gets lost or is stolen, it makes sense to replace it. But deciding whether to abandon an older device that still works for a newer, shinier one is tougher.

App Smart

Sifting Through the App Morass, With a Little Help

With more than a million apps on the market, app guides are useful tools.

Bits

When the Web’s Chaos Takes an Ugly Turn

A forum on Reddit, a community and social news site, has set off a debate about privacy and free speech after it encouraged people to post covert photographs of women.

Novelties

No Need to Crowd In. We Can All Talk to Mom.

Owners of high-definition televisions can use new wide-angle webcams to put their video calls on the screen.

Tool Kit

Making Room in Your Piece of the Cloud

Apple’s new iOS 6 software makes it easy to back up to iCloud, the data backup service. That can become costly unless a user is selective in what is saved.

App Smart

Useful New Tools, and Some Diversions, for Apple’s New Phone

Here are the best games and apps, including one for stargazing, on the list that Apple is promoting for the iPhone 5.

App Smart

Map Apps to Bypass the Rivalry of Google and Apple

There are some better options than Google and Apple for mapping and navigation.

State of the Art

An Easy Way to Back Up, but It Costs

Are your noncorporate drives increasingly stuffed with data and not backed up? Drobo offers two systems intended to save all your files when drive death occurs.

Tool Kit
Inside the Nest Learning Thermostat

Nest, the company founded by the former Apple designer Tony Fadell, released a new version of its self-learning thermostat on Tuesday.

Browse all the mobile app coverage that has appeared in The New York Times by category, and see what Times writers have on their phones and tablets.

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