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- Google Maps app returns to the iPhone
The new Google Maps iPhone app includes turn-by-turn directions, street-level photography of local neighborhoods and listings for more than 80 million businesses. The Google Maps iPhone app still lacks some of the mapping features available on Android phones, such as directions in malls and other buildings.
- Apple TV set on the way? Maybe, but don't hold your breath.
An Apple TV set is in an 'early stage of testing,' according to a new report. But there are no guarantees the device will ever see the light of day.
- Facebook again streamlines privacy settings. Will it help the average user?
Facebook has instituted a series of new, simplified privacy controls.
- Google Zeitgeist reveals the most searched terms of 2012
Google Zeitgeist 2012 reports that people wanted to know about Whitney Houston, PSY, iPad, and many other terms.
- Pope Benedict XVI, now with one million followers, launches first Tweet
The Pontiff greeted his new digital flock on Wednesday with a blessing.
- Twitter, ditched by Instagram, launches photo filters of its own
The war between Twitter and Instagram heats up.
- Find My iPhone app will now steer you straight to your lost device
Find My iPhone gets driving directions.
- Gmail down, up, and back online again
Gmail and Chrome weathered outages and bugs earlier today. Google says it is looking into the problem.
- Ada Lovelace: What did the first computer program do?
Celebrated on what would be her 197th birthday, Ada Lovelace is widely credited as having written the first computer program. What did Lovelace's program do?
- Google Chromebooks steeply discounted for classrooms (with a catch)
Set a fundraising goal on Donorschoose.org, and if you hit your goal by Dec. 21, Google will sell your local public school teachers Chromebooks for $99 a pop.
- Gmail down: The 10 funniest tweets
Gmail crashed briefly on Monday, but Twitter was going strong with wry humor about the outage.
- Ada Lovelace: 'The Enchantress of Numbers'
Ada Lovelace was the visionary half of the team that helped create the modern computer. Lovelace is honored by Google as the 'first computer programmer.'
- Samsung Galaxy Muse, shaped like a skipping stone, on sale for $50
Samsung has released a small, sleek, smooth MP3 player called the Galaxy Muse. Move music from your Galaxy smartphone to the Galaxy Muse with a tap of your finger.