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Toyota unveiled four robots designed to accomplish ambitious objectives at a Tokyo event Tuesday: Help paralyzed patients walk or balance and help their caretakers gently transport them between locations. The company hopes to commercialize the products sometime after 2013. One … Continue reading →

It turns out Apple wasn’t responsible for the disappearance of the Amazon Cloud Player app aMusic from the App Store. The app was removed at Amazon’s request. When the app, an unofficial iOS client for Amazon’s Cloud Player service, disappeared … Continue reading →

The new-look Gmail that Google accidentally told us about last week is now rolling out to all users. The changes, officially announced in a blog post Tuesday, allow Gmail users much more control over the look of the service. You … Continue reading →

Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox, a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory, Austin’s seed-stage incubator. He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. … Continue reading →

Twitter unveiled a collection of Twitter Stories Monday designed to remind users “of the humanity behind Tweets that make the world smaller.” There are currently just under 20 short vignettes gathered at stories.twitter.com. And these vignettes are indeed short: between … Continue reading →

Acknowledging that having a mobile presence is trickier than it appears, Google launched an initiative called “GoMo” Tuesday that aims to help businesses work out the kinks involved in going mobile. As Jesse Haines, group marketing manager for Google’s mobile … Continue reading →

Nellie Akalp is CEO of CorpNet.com. Since forming more than 100,000 corporations and LLCs across the U.S., she has built a strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs in starting and protecting their business the right way. To … Continue reading →

Using Twitter on Halloween Day, Ryan Seacrest announced that TV personality Kim Kardashian filed papers to divorce NBA player Kris Humphries, who were married for less than three months. Soon after, Kardashian’s sisters shared their thoughts via Twitter (see tweets … Continue reading →

Update: We’ve heard from the developer who tells us the app was pulled at the request of Amazon, not Apple. We’re following up on this story and will update with additional information. An iPhone app that allows users to access … Continue reading →

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Contently Quick Pitch: Contently is … Continue reading →