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Amazon Reveals Kindle Fire Apps: Facebook, Netflix, Pandora and MoreAmazon disclosed Wednesday which companies will immediately offer apps for the Kindle Fire, ahead of the device’s Nov. 15 launch date. Android apps and games from Facebook, Netflix, Pandora, Twitter, Zynga, Rovio, EA, Gameloft, PopCap, Rhapsody and The Weather Channel, among many others, wi... National Emergency Alert System Flops: Were You Alerted? [POLL]No Alert on Cable TV Click here to view this gallery.It seems the first ever test of a national alert system on TV and radio failed this afternoon. We’ve heard reports that the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency alert, scheduled to be issued at 2 p.m.... 10 Tips and Tricks for Better Google+ Brand Pages1. Access Your Brand Page Once you've set up your brand page, you access it through your personal Google+ profile. On your home page below your name and avatar pic is a drop down menu. Open this menu to see your page, click on it to access it.Click here to view t... Cable Companies Battle Digital Divide With $9.95 a Month BroadbandCable companies Cox, Charter and Time Warner Cable have teamed up with Microsoft and Best Buy in an initiative that will offer broadband Internet to low-income families for $9.95 a month and PCs for $250. The program, called Connect To Compete, is part of an outreach by the Federal Communications... Teachers: Embrace Technology or Students Will Leave You BehindRobert Romano is the CEO/Founder of BookheadEd Learning, where his vision has blended the traditional and technological experiences of reading in the company’s flagship product, StudySync®. You can read more about his company at StudySync.com. We ask our students to be good observers, conside... HP Buys More Time to Determine the Future of WebOSHP CEO Meg Whitman has told employees that the company still hasn’t decided what to do with webOS, the mobile operating system it gained from its acquisition of Palm. On Tuesday, Whitman held an all-hands meeting of HP employees to deliver the “news” that the company will be mak... Keep Calm and Carry On: FEMA Testing National Alert System at 2 p.m. ETToday at 2 p.m. ET, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency will do a 30-second test run of the Emergency Alert System (EAS). You’ll hear a message stating, “This is a test,” on U.S. radio (including) satellite stations, and TV and cable stations will display “Emergen... How to Manage a RebrandThis post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. So, you’ve launched a company, but you want to go in a different direction regarding the logo, name and maybe even ... 9 in 10 Teens Have Witnessed Bullying on Social Networks [STUDY]Teenagers can be mean. But a recent survey suggests that they’re no more so on social networks than they are in real life. In a survey of 12- to 17-year-olds released by the Pew Research Center on Wednesday, 12% of teenagers reported being bullied in person sometime in the last year, compar... 16% of Cellphones Have Poop on Them [INFOGRAPHIC]Worried your cellphone may fall into the 16% with poop on it? You should be scared — not just of the germs lurking on your mobile, but on all your favorite tech gizmos. Before you type anything else into your keyboard, consider this: Keyboards, on average, are five times dirtier and have 60 ti... |