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AT&T 4G LTE Coming to New York City by Year EndAT&T’s LTE expansion will officially hit New York City later this month. John Stephens, the senior executive vice president and CFO for AT&T, announced that the wireless carrier will cover 70 million users with LTE service by the end of 2011. This follows reports of unofficial LTE ... Groupon’s New Scheduler Lets Customers Book Appointments OnlineGroupon launched a pilot for a new service Wednesday that lets customers independently book appointments with small businesses online, regardless of whether or not those appointments are associated with a Groupon deal. The trial version of “Scheduler” launched with merchants in Sacram... Klout Launches Sashes and ‘Add a Topic’ ButtonKlout just unwrapped sashes, a visual update to its Topics feature, which rolled out in September and lets you gain insights on top influencers and +K recipients for specific content areas. The sash concept is simple. A blue sash goes to Klout users with the most +Ks for any topic, while a gold ... We’re Mapping the Rollout of Facebook Timeline (And We Need Your Help!)At approximately 8 p.m. ET Tuesday, Facebook Timeline began rolling out to the public in New Zealand. Since then, we’ve received reports of users gaining access in Canada, Germany, Holland and India as well. We’d like to track the rollout of Timeline geographically, but we need Mashab... Augmented Mirror of the Future Reflects You and Your WorldThe New York Times‘s R&D Lab has developed a digitally enhanced mirror that allows you to interact with personalized data during your morning routine. Unfortunately, the mirror won’t be making its way into your local Restoration Hardware any time soon. Rather, it’s... Study Shows Lost and Found USB Drives Are Not Secure [VIDEO]Security firm Sophos studied 50 USB keys from Sydney’s major transit authority’s lost-and-found auction. Among its discovers: Two-thirds of the devices were infected and a total of 62 files were infected. And most of the drives appeared to be predominantly used on Windows-bas... 9 Social Media Uprisings That Sought to Change the World in 2011Social media has not only been at the core of major protest stories, but drove some of 2011′s biggest news, from Occupy Wall Street to the Arab Spring. Digital tools such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook have defined this year’s social movements by giving rise to a new generation of a... Sony Literally Fills Rooms With Films to Immerse the Viewer [VIDEO]Sony has launched a series of videos promoting the range of movies now available on the PlayStation Video Store. These extraordinary short films were shot in one take, in real time and with no post-production, and literally bring to life the store’s tagline: Great Films Fill Rooms. In the... Behind the Design of Bit.ly’s Iconic PufferfishThe Leaders in Design series is brought to you by Volvo. For link-shortening service Bit.ly, finding a way to jazz up its simple, cut-and-dry product was a challenge. How can a little web tool make a visual impact in a thoughtful way? Neil Wehrle, VP of User Experience at Betaworks, found a simpl... Bill Gates Going Nuclear With ChinaBill Gates is in discussions with China to jointly develop a new and more efficient type of nuclear reactor. “The idea is to be very low cost, very safe and generate very little waste,” Gates told CBC and other news outlets while giving a talk at China’s Ministry of Science and... |