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Zynga May Be in Slumps-Ville, but Social Games Are Spreading Fast on Mobile

Game makers are encountering challenges and opportunities as social gaming moves from Facebook to handheld devices.

Intel Fuels a Rebellion Around Your Data

The world’s largest chip maker wants to see a new kind of economy bloom around personal data.

Smartphone Tracker Gives Doctors Remote Viewing Powers

Here’s the smartphone technology that alerts a doctor when patients are headed for trouble.

Google’s Social Network Gets Smarter

With dozens of new features, Google’s social network is becoming more like a photo service and a news site.

Google Wants to Help Apps Track You

Google will help people who build Android apps follow their users around without draining too much battery life.

Treading Carefully, Google Encourages Developers to Hack Glass

Breaking its own restrictions, Google will show developers how to build any kind of app for Google Glass.

Augmenting Social Reality in the Workplace

A new line of research examines what happens in an office where the positions of the cubicles and walls—even the coffee pot—are all determined by data.

China Comes to Silicon Valley at One Startup Accelerator

A year after launch, a startup program is helping U.S. companies reach China—and vice versa.

With Personal Data, Predictive Apps Stay a Step Ahead

Apps that proactively help people with their lives represent a significant departure from earlier approaches to software.

Logging Life with a Lapel Camera

A startup believes people will want a photographic record of their lives, taken at 30-second intervals.

Stephen Wolfram on Personal Analytics

The creator of the Wolfram Alpha search engine explains why he thinks your life should be measured, analyzed, and improved.

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