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  1 in 3 Online Consumers Will Use a Tablet by 2014

  22nd November 2011 08:06

  In a new study from eMarketer.com, researchers found that by the end of 2011, 33.7 million Americans will use a tablet at least once a month. This is an increase of 158.6% since 2010, when the iPad was first released. The study estimates a 63.8% increase in users to 54.8 million by 2012. By 2014, that number will shoot up to 89.5 million. A total 35.6% of Internet users will use an iPad at least once per month by the…

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  Education-Specific HTML to Be Submitted to Search Engines Soon

  22nd November 2011 07:31

  Students, educators and others interested in finding the best published content, events and experts for learning new things will be heartened to learn that a new metadata markup standard is in the works to make discovery of learning materials easier than ever. Perhaps more importantly, it will make those materials easier for machines to find. Once finding the right content is a solved problem, many new things could become possible. The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI), a project co-led by…

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  Can Vertical Acuity Stop Your Site Losing Visitors?

  22nd November 2011 05:13

  The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…

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  Seminal RPG ‘Chrono Trigger’ Coming to iPhone

  22nd November 2011 04:14

  Game publisher Square Enix announced on its blog today that it plans to release a version of the beloved role-playing game Chrono Trigger for th…

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  How To Store Your Files in The Cloud - And Why You'd Want To

  22nd November 2011 04:12

  So far in our series exploring cloud computing for consumers, we've looked at calendars and music. In the multi-device world we now live in, your computer's hard drive is another area increasingly headed to the cloud. One of the leading Internet companies of this era is essentially that: a hard drive in the cloud. Dropbox, by some measures the world's 5th most valuable startup, makes it easy for you to sync files across devices. There are other, similar services too.…

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  Daily Wrap: Kindle Fire: Service, Not Product and more

  22nd November 2011 03:30

  Jon Mitchell points out that the Kindle Fire is really more of a service offering than a product offering. This and more in today's Daily Wrap. Sometimes it's difficult to catch every story that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed in the ReadWriteWeb Community, including a link to some of the most popular discussions in our offsite communities on…

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  Big Question (Answered): "Has Facebook Gone Too Far with Its "Frictionless Sharing"?"

  22nd November 2011 02:30

  Facebook's frictionless sharing is not as popular as the company might have hoped. While they tout an easy way to share your current activity, others fear a world that documents our every move. Richard sees it more of a redefinition of sharing by Facebook and Marshall thinks it's just plain wrong and a lost opportunity. And though Scott points out that you certainly can "opt-out" of frictionless sharing, he also wonders if you should have to do so. Do you…

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  BlackBerry PlayBook Price Slashed to $199 [VIDEO]

  22nd November 2011 01:59

  RIM has slashed the price of the struggling BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to $199, the company announced on Monday. Although RIM says the de…

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  UC Davis Pepper Spray Now Available, in Stronger Form, on Amazon

  22nd November 2011 01:19

  A stronger version of the pepper spray made infamous by the UC Davis campus police officer who casually sprayed a row of seated, protesting stud…

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  Bill Gates Testifies: Microsoft Beat WordPerfect Fair and Square

  22nd November 2011 00:53

  In a scene that could have been from a ‘90s retro party, Bill Gates testified in a Salt Lake City courtroom today in a lawsuit that accuses Mi…