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Waytag turns addresses and GPS coordinates into tags for easy sharing

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As we check in on Foursquare, Facebook, and Path, share our exact location with our Twitter followers, and generally let the entire world know where we are every minute of the day, there are times you want to share your exact location with a select few. Waytag is a South...

Engadget's Gear of CES 2013
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You can't cover the latest tech without having some tried-and-true gear of your own, and we've done CES enough times to have our formula down pat. For sustenance: every brand of chips imaginable, beef jerky, Oreos and black tea for our Brits. For gear: (at least) one laptop and...

PayPal secures POS makers VeriFone, Equinox for in-store push
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PayPal’s drive to become a major player for in-store payments is getting a huge push thanks to new partnerships with VeriFone, the top point-of-sale terminal maker and Equinox Payments, the No. 3 terminal maker. The deals complement a similar agreement PayPal secured with Ingenico in January and gives PayPal access...

The Essential SXSW Tech Tool Kit
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Hey, over here! Yeah, you — the person who’s pretending to respond to work emails while trolling the Internet today for anything related to “Apple” and “iPad.” There’s something else happening this week: SXSW Interactive, where techies gather to share ideas and drink and flick their barbecue-sauced fingers over their...
Gadgetwise Blog: Your Tech Questions, Answered: Part 1
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Sam Grobart, writer of the new tech-help column Tool Kit, answers readers' questions posted online....

Java users beware: Exploit circulating for just-patched critical flaw
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If you haven't installed last week's patch from Oracle that plugs dozens of critical holes in its Java software framework, now would be a good time. As in immediately. As in, really, right now. In the past few days, attack code targeting one of the many remote-code-execution vulnerabilities fixed...

Warply scores $500,000 in seed funding to bolster its mobile marketing tool-kit
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Rare investment news from Greece, as Athens-based Warply has announced that it’s raised a $500,000 round of early-stage funding from a group of unnamed angel investors. Warply is a fledgling company that offers a cloud-based toolbox that enables brands, agencies and publishers to directly send interactive, contextually-relevant mobile marketing campaigns...

Tool Kit: Facebook and Twitter Needn't Flood Your In-box
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There are plenty of ways to sift the information you receive from friends on Facebook and Twitter, like cutting back on updates from some friends without those friends finding out....
Gadgetwise Blog: Touch, Speak, Tap: Taking 5 Connected Cars for a Spin
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Buyers now expect their cars to have the capabilities of their smartphones, so automakers have complied. To gauge the systems, Sam Grobart, Tool Kit columnist, spent time with five cars from automakers in the forefront of telematics....

Now You Can Make An App For Google Glass In Just 15 Minutes (GOOG)
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Google is gradually increasing the number of official Glass apps with the recent launch of Evernote, Facebook, Twitter, CNN, Elle, and Evernote. But now almost anyone can make a basic app in just 15 minutes. Typically, it could take days of coding to build a Glass app, depending on how...
Gadgetwise Blog: Your Tech Questions, Answered
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Tool Kit, a new personal technology column that will run on Thursdays, will solve problems with the help of technology, or help to solve the problems that technology can cause. What's been bugging you? Sam Grobart, the writer of Tool Kit, will answer your questions online....
Gadgetwise Blog: How to Buy Electronics
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The four-step method for buying electronics --which Web sites to visit and how to use them best. Sam Grobart explains in his latest Tool Kit column....
Gadgetwise Blog: How to Fix a Computer Remotely
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In this week's Tool Kit, Sam Grobart explains how to establish a remote connection to a computer to fix it or just to transfer files....
Fake Bill Keller column fools journalists and mocks Times' WikiLeaks coverage
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Ruse including fake tweets and a counterfeit Times website dismissed as 'childish prank' by former editor Bill KellerBill Keller, the New York Times columnist who edited the paper through the WikiLeaks saga, is not a man usually fond of hyperbole. So when he came to post on Sunday morning a...
Gadgetwise Blog: Driving Miss Siri
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Sam Grobart, New York Times Tool Kit columnist, explains what Apple's cooperation with automakers means for in-car electronics systems....
Gadgetwise Blog: Your Tech Questions Answered, Part 3
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Sam Grobart, writer of the new tech-help column Tool Kit, answers readers' questions posted online....
Gadgetwise Blog: Your Tech Questions, Answered: Part 4
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Sam Grobart, writer of the new tech-help column Tool Kit, answers readers' questions posted online....
Gadgetwise Blog: Your Tech Questions Answered, Part 5
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Sam Grobart, writer of the new tech-help column Tool Kit, answers readers' questions that have been posted online....

A Struggling Artist's Fall-Back Career: Curing Blindness
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Whether working in bronze, paint, or living cells, bioengineer Stephen Redenti takes the search for truth, beauty--and vision--seriously.Stephen Redenti is an assistant professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at the City University of New York whose lab does cutting-edge work in stem-cell engineering with the aim of helping blind...

Aviary Brings Photo-Editing Tools to Windows 8 Developers
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Aviary, the Web-based photo-editing software company, debuted its software development kit for Windows 8 developers on Monday, making available the company’s photo-editing suite of tools available to those creating apps for the latest version of Microsoft’s operating system. It’s pretty significant for Microsoft (and definitely a big deal for Aviary),...
Gadgetwise Blog: Tool Kit: How to Buy a Laptop
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Put aside all those spec sheets about processor speeds and optical drive RPMs. Sam Grobart explains how to buy a laptop in this day and age....
New Stuff I've Learned Since My Facebook Privacy Tool Kit
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More tools to help you decide for yourself how much you want to share on Facebook....

First Look at Informatica's Cloud Data Integration Apps Store
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There are two competing approaches to the emerging field of cloud-oriented data management. One is tied to the field of “big data,” and is based on the theory that unique data from disparate sources can be unified through a single repository or warehouse - this is the IBM ideal that...

Tool Kit: A Sound System as Resonant a Concert Hall - Tool Kit
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A digital-to-analog converter can help your music sound much more as if it were live....

Checking In and Checking Out South By Southwest
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As a South-by newbie, I had very little idea what to expect upon arriving in Austin. One thing I sure wasn’t expecting was the cold and gloomy weather. But once you walk from wherever you manage to find a room over to the Austin convention center, things heat up considerably....
Gadgetwise Blog: Your Tech Questions Answered, Part 2
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Sam Grobart, writer of the new tech-help column Tool Kit, answers readers' questions posted online....
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