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Touchnote Lets You Mail A Postcard To Your Pretend Friends On Facebook Without Knowing Where They Live You know those hundreds of Facebook friends you think you have? I bet you don’t even know where most of them live. I mean, actually live, not where they hang out online. Of course you don’t. They’re not your real friends, duh. But let’s pretend some of them are. And to impress and delight them, y

Blur Group Takes Its B2B Services Exchange Into The Tech Vertical Blur Group, the B2B services exchange which originally launched to disrupt the creative agency type model employed by Madison Avenue, has followed through on its promise to expand into other verticals. Today it’s launching blur Technology to enable businesses to source “expert providers” to help with things like building mobile and

Close your eyes and imagine the sexiest car you can think of. You're picturing a 1995 Pontiac Grand AM, right? Okay, so maybe you're not. But after listening to this slightly ambitious Craigslist ad for the used car you just might change your mind. The car's price tag is "slashed" from $199,000 down to just $700 and the current owner promises driving it will be better than your last four romantic

BestVendor is releasing the result of its 2012 Freelancer Survey tomorrow, revealing the most popular tools and apps for freelancers and entrepreneurs. But the company gave VentureBeat a sneak peek today. The single most popular tool? Überpopular file-sharing, storage, and back-up service DropBox. Evernote, the electronic memory app, comes in at No. 4. The number of times Google shows up on the li

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. As promised, Microsoft has released Windows 8 RTM, the finalized version of the OS meant for PC manufacturers and developers of Windows apps. The Windows 8 operating system will land on physical and virtual shelves on Oct. 26, but to get ready, Mic

Back in the day, before the printing press made books a widely available commodity, students sat through class transcribing each and every word of a published work, as dictated by the teacher. We still take notes today, sure, but note-taking and lectures themselves have come a long way. So as you tie your shoes, zip up your backpack, and head off to your first day of college (or second, third, or

After losing long-time Googler Benjamin Ling to social network Badoo, the search giant is seeing another exec head to the UK site. This time, Jeff Hardy, who was Head of Global Partnerships for Google+ Local, is leaving the company to join Badoo as VP of Partnerships and M&A. At Google, we’re told Hardy was instrumental negotiating content deals and partnerships for Google+ local listings, includi

Google Maps Now Features Schedules For More Than 1 Million Transit Stops Worldwide Google Maps now features public transit schedules for more than 500 cities and one million transit stops worldwide. To make all of this information more accessible to its users on the go, Google today launched an update to Google Maps for Android. The updated Google Maps app now, for example, allows users to choose

Just over a week after NASA successfully landed its Curiosity Rover on Mars, India announced its own plans to launch its first mission to Earth's next-door neighbor. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced the plan, which will involve an unmanned orbiter and cost nearly $64 million, during a speech celebrating India's sixty-fifth year of independence. "This spaceship to Mars will be a huge step fo

People die trying to look cool. Vanity is the sad reason why people don’t wear bike helmets. So two Swedish women set out to invent “the invisible bicycle helmet”, They’ve succeeded, and the end product isn’t a made of clear plexiglass and there’s no lightbending-stealth technology. In fact it’s not really a helmet at all. Hövding is a rapidly-inflating airbag that deploys from a collar around you

Why Is There Anime Porn on Subway's Facebook Page? [NSFW] Visitors to Subway's Facebook Page got treated to some off-brand messaging on Wednesday thanks to what appears to be a lack of vigilance regarding the Page's "Posts by Others" link. As of this writing, visitors who clicked that link got shown some anime porn by a user named Yichao Ravioli. Ravioli posted at least half a dozen ribald anime i

What Will Microsoft And Nokia’s September 5 Press Conference Be About? PROBABLY NOKIA’S NEW WINDOWS PHONE 8 DEVICES. But seriously, Microsoft very publicly revealed the future of its Windows Phone platform a few months back. At the time Nokia though, didn’t have much more to announce than some conciliatory apps for all the people whose Lumias wouldn’t work with Windows Phone 8. Now it looks like N

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