Best of the Day (7/11)
28% of US smartphone owners use them as primary 'Net connection
Just over a third of American adults own a smartphone of some kind, with many preferring to use it as their primary connection to the Internet.
Get your hands off that contact info, says Facebook
The battle over who controls the information in your social graph — and specifically, who controls the email addresses of your contacts — continues to ramp up.
Post by Bill Gross
I predict that Google+ will go from 0 to 100,000,000 users faster than any other service in history. Okay, that's a bold proclamation - here's why I think it will achieve that.
There's no shortage of punditry around the future and fate of Google+, a massive social networking effort from Google.
A Google Wave Engineer Talks about Plus
As the dust begins to settle on Google’s latest and least-tentative step towards an overarching social infrastructure, it’s becoming overwhelmingly apparent that Google+ is a Good Thing. At its most basic, Google+ is an alternative in a space that is fast becoming a one-party state.
Google+: Too many eggs in the Google basket
Google+ Vs. Twitter: A Personal View
As Google+ goes into its second week of life, how’s the service doing?
Will Google+ Replace Twitter or Facebook for Teachers?
It’s been almost two weeks since the launch of the “field trial” of Google’s new social network, Google Plus . As the hype grows, more and more people are receiving their invitations to the service, and in turn, there are an increasing number of discussions about how Google Plus might work for teaching and learning .
Georgia Tech engineers pull energy out of atmospheric hat, go on electromagnetic scavenger hunt
Ambient Electromagnetic Energy Harnessed for Small Electronic Devices
The answer, as every patent litigator in the US knows, is Google.
Outgunned Google accuses rivals of ganging up - Business Analysis & Features, Business
By Lizette Chapman