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Welcome back to InterrupTech.  Catch up on the week’s most important tech stories in a hurry.  We cover HP’s new line of computers including the DreamScreen, a digital book outsells hardcover version, Facebook tops 300 Million users, Microsoft fumbles with the Zune again, and Android is picking up steam. Continue Reading »

Ning has just added apps so social network creators can make their social networks function better.  Here are some examples of the new Ning apps: the Sellit app allows a site creator to build in a store, a Wordpress app that shows Wordpress.com blog posts, and Ustream.tv and Qik for… Continue Reading »

  A Chicago woman has been slapped with a $50,000 lawsuit by her landlord.  Horizon Group Management filed the lawsuit after the woman complained about her apartment on Twitter.  Horizon was angered by her claim that they didn’t care about the mold problem in her apartment.  Although she did not… Continue Reading »

Facebook, the once college only social network (does anyone remember those days?), is getting older and older.  Eventually you will face the familiar “You have a friend request,” but it’s from your mom.  What do you do?  We had a round table discussion at Gadgetell to see what we would… Continue Reading »

There’s this new website out there called hunch.com.  It’s developed by an 11 person team, made up of a crew of MIT computer scientists and the co-founder of flickr, so it isn’t like it’s being put together by some 12 year old and her gaggle of giggling girlfriends. (Or so… Continue Reading »

Evernote, the cross-platform productivity application, now integrates with Twitter.  How does that work?  You’ve got to follow “myEN” on Twitter and then link accounts.  If you add @myEN in the tweet, Evernote will save that tweet.  If you want a note to be private, just direct message @myEN.  Many of… Continue Reading »

Social networking has become such a popular target due to the huge numbers of people using them these days and the viral nature of them.  By that I mean the way people are willing to pass links, videos, and apps around to their friends.  Anyone on Facebook knows that third… Continue Reading »

With all the announcements out of Google the last few days, including offline Gmail access for iPhone and Android, many Windows Mobile users have expressed concern over the future of Google innovation on their platform of choice.  With the release of Google Mobile App for Windows Mobile, you can almost… Continue Reading »

Google launched the redesign of its popular iGoogle portal last week and the complaints began almost immediately.  Users are upset with the new look and furious that the redesigned interface was sprung on them with no prior announcement.  The interface allows users to collect web “gadgets” such as map and… Continue Reading »

Since the advent of television news, newspapers have been struggling.  Sales have been slowing, circulation and staffs shrinking, with more and more small town papers dying out.  Some would call print news a dying business. The Internet boom since the 1990’s threatened to be the death sentence for newspapers, but… Continue Reading »