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Sociable

You too can buy online popularity - but what’s it really worth?

With all the Internet metrics, it’s like my personality is a stock whose worth I'm constantly monitoring

Etiquette

The couple that tweets together, stays together

How some Web 2.0 couples make I Love Yous work in 140 characters or less

Live Better

How to break free and use data in the cloud

Our guide to your life: This week, four ways to take advantage of cloud-based computing for storing data

A screencapture of tktkt's 360Live app for the iPhone/iPod Touch
Apps We Love

An app to keep Xbox Live living

360 Live, and independently developed mobile app for the iPhone/iPod Touch, lets you connect with your buddies away from the console

In this Jan. 25, 2010 file photo, people use computers at an Internet cafe in Taiyuan, in north China's Shanxi province. Police in central China have shut down a hacker training operation that openly recruited thousands of members online and provided them with cyberattack lessons and malicious software, state media said Monday, Feb. 8, 2010.

Cybersecurity

Chinese police raid hacker hub

Crackdown comes amid concern China is centre for Internet crime, industrial espionage

Mobile

Ready to bank on your smart phone?

Mobile banking has been slow to catch on in Canada, but experts say it won't be long before the service is more popular than online banking

Ottawa refuses to release Globalive decision documents

Public Mobile Inc., which intends to launch cellphone service later this year, is seeking clarity on the rules surrounding foreign ownership of Canadian telecom companies

Careers

A hands-free world for workers on the road

Some employers have gone beyond government curbs on driving and talking, while employees grapple with being disconnected

Telecom

BCE digs in to win Quebec customers

Bell announces fibre-to-the-home service for residential, business customers in hotly contested market

Computer whiz kid becomes Balkan celebrity at age 9

Without support, Marko Calasan doesn’t have much of a future in Macedonia

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Gadgets
Demos with depth

Consumer electronics company hopes success of 3-D in theatres carries over into the home

No cheap plastic glasses here: A Sony representative sports a set of active-shutter specs to view 3-D television.
Controller Freak
White Knight more of a dark cloud

Japan’s renowned Level-5 studio has slipped a little with its latest RPG, a traditional adventure exclusive to the PlayStation 3 that’s just a bit too tedious to recommend to anyone except die-hard fans

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Not your grandfather's braking system

The Prius's brakes use Airbus-style digital controls to stop your car

The 2010 Toyota Prius hybrid
R.M. Vaughan: Q&A
What would happen if Google knew everything?

Ted Remerowski’s new film wonders whether the search-engine powerhouse is living up to its motto

Richard Vaughan
Apps We Love
A Twitter app for nOObs

We also take a look at a search engine for Internet radio and a handy app that lets you compare two Photoshop files

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Dave McGinn's Mr. Miser
Why do phone companies not reward customer loyalty?

I figured I should be able to parlay my years of loyalty into a free iPhone. I was so wrong.

RIM's smart-phone advantage

RIM's gambit early on to route traffic through its own servers was designed to enhance security, but it has also provided a big edge as smart-phone usage – and the bandwidth it requires – explodes

RESEARCH IN MOTION'S POPULAR BLACKBERRY WIRELESS E-MAIL PAGERS
Viral
The iPad: Our shiny new ball and chain

Within a couple of months, there will be no physical position in which we won’t be able piss away time on the Internet

Accessories
Laptop totes for fashion-conscious bagaholics

There has been an explosion of gear sacks sporting funky colours and feminine shapes

Watch video
Inside Jobs: Thermor

A new Your Business series begins with a look at building a better system for hot and cold food monitoring

Thermor.
Life online
Blogger arranges his whole life through Craigslist

Some university graduates do a year in Europe. Jason Paul, 22, is doing 9 months of living through Craiglist.

Jason Paul is devoting nine months of his life to an experiment where he lives through Craigslist.
Science
It's the thought that counts

Toronto tech firm turns mental energy into profitable process of illumination

A computer screen displays Chris Aimone's brain waves (top purple line) (J.P. Moczulski for The Globe and Mail)
Education
Texting, Twitter contributing to students’ poor grammar skills, profs say

Almost one third of students taking Waterloo University’s English language skills exam fail

Focus
Why the computer is doomed

Some time around the end of this decade, it will become impossible to improve computing power at the rate it has advanced for the past three decades

Apple Computer Inc. iMac, Intel Core 2 Duo, iChat
Sports Media
English pubs host first 3-D sports broadcast

Nine bars in Britain wired for live three dimensional EPL soccer match on Sunday with production earning mixed reviews from patrons

The pitch is reflected in a football fan's 3D glasses as he watches a live 3D TV football match between Arsenal and Manchester United, in a pub in London January 31, 2010. Satellite broadcaster BSkyB aired the Premier League clash between Arsenal and Manchester United in 3D, claiming it was the first transmission of a live 3D TV sports event to a public audience, local media reported. REUTERS/Jas Lehal