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Scientists have found an unanticipated side effect to the nonstop cell phone checking: When people keep their brains busy with digital input, they are forfeiting downtime that could allow them to better learn and remember information, or come up with new ideas.

If you've read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (or either of its sequels), you're probably aware of the fact that its characters have a striking and awesome penchant for gadgets. The thing is, those gadgets are from... 2002. While reading through the books, we took the opportunity to jot down all that name dropped gear, and what we've got here is both a list of that gear and a walk down memory ...

That's because RIM appears to be in a very similar position to where Palm was just a few years ago: A high-flying smartphone incumbent, suddenly looking very vulnerable, very quickly, as new competition shoots past it.

Novo Nordisk announced today the availability of NovoDoseâ¢â the first-ever mobile insulin dosing guide for physicians to look up dosing guidelines and blood glucose goals for their patients with diabetes, a disease that affects nearly 24 million Americans.

NovoDose™ Free to Doctors through iTunes

What's the reality in the smartphone space?

Call 911 if you see a child unattended in a vehicle.

Editor's note: SCORE, a nonprofit group that partners with the U.S. Small Business Administration, has a Palm Desert office whose volunteers will answer questions every Sunday in The Desert Sun's Business Plus section.Volunteers have varied business backgrounds, but will provide free expert advice to small businesses that need help.

Editor's Note: This is a continuation of a two-part piece on mobile computing security measures. See here for Bert's first article, Mobile Computing in Secure Environments, Part 1: What's Reasonable and Possible. Where my wife works, no devices with either a WiFi or Bluetooth capability are allowed in, even when carried by employees. To me [...] Mobile Computing in Secure Environments, Part 2 ...

Levity Novelty LLC has launched Alive Albums for the iPad, now available at the Apple App Store for US$1.99. The Alive Albums application lets iPad users effortlessly enjoy Facebook photos -- their own, their friends’, and the pages they Like there. They can discover friends’ photos and likes so easily it’s addictive, or in a few taps, create a unique animated playlist they can enjoy for hours.

Levity Novelty LLC has launched Alive Albums for the iPad, now available at the Apple App Store for US$1.99. The Alive Albums application lets iPad users effortlessly enjoy Facebook photos -- their own, their friends’, and the pages they Like there. They can discover friends’ photos and likes so easily it’s addictive, or in a few taps, create a unique animated playlist they can enjoy for hours.

Levity Novelty LLC has launched Alive Albums for the iPad, now available at the Apple App Store for US$1.99. The Alive Albums application lets iPad users effortlessly enjoy Facebook photos -- their own, their friends’, and the pages they Like there. They can discover friends’ photos and likes so easily it’s addictive, or in a few taps, create a unique animated playlist they can enjoy for hours.

I clearly remember back when I first joined META Group in 2000 and was given a company laptop – and IBM ThinkPad as it happens. The tech person in our office told me, “Treat this as your own computer,” by which he meant that I was free to put whatever personal applications I wanted on [...] Mobile Computing, Security, and the Separation of Personal and Company Applications is a post from ...

Just days after HP CEO Mark Hurd resigned amid a sex scandal, Tech Crunch says it has confirmed that Peter Skillman, Palm’s VP of Design, has decided to take his skills elsewhere. No word yet where.

HP late this past evening was found to have lost another key executive in the weeks following its acquisition of Palm. Design VP Peter Skillman, best known as the designer of the Palm Pre, has left the newly combined company for an unknown destination. The executive was a rare veteran at the company and had been at Palm for 11 years, dating from Palm's PDA-only days.... PalmPre - Hewlett-Packard ...

Recently I began to buy eBooks for the Kindle application on my iPad . While I still love paper books, the digital wiles of eBooks are looking increasingly attractive to me. Below are five eBook features that may tempt you to buy electronic books too. I should note that I wasn't a hold-out on eBooks for moral reasons. I simply couldn't access them until recently. Amazon's Kindle, Sony's Reader ...

There was a lot of talk about this unit from Pandigital (maker of Digital Photo Frames and film scanners) around June when they were removed off the shelves of Kohl’s for poor/slow performance. They came back with newer firmware and much quicker response in July at Bed Bath & Beyond Stores along with Walgreens and [...] Filed in categories: Reviews , eBook Readers and Gear Tagged: Pandigital ...

Dump your business cards and go digital.

The Android tablet would aim for the same audience as Apple's iPad and could land in stores this fall, according to the Financial Times.

General Dynamics Itronix announced a wearable, eight-ounce tactical computer/GPS device based on Android and intended for military applications.