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Yesterday, Google announced its release of a Realtime API for Google Drive. If you’ve ever collaborated on a document using Google Drive, you know how cool this technology is. You can see the other users typing, their cursor position, their highlights, comments, and more.

Get ready to ditch the cables in your conference room. The business world has suffered long enough at the hands of the video cable for presentations. No more being tethered to a finicky VGA cord, no more panic attacks when you're missing a DVI adapter, it's time to evolve.

Jump back in the time machine to see a time when people still needed to talk with a human being before using their phone to talk to another human being.

Music streaming services have been around for some time. With the arrival of Spotify and Google Play Music in the US, the average user is able to listen to a huge amount of music on the go. There is an overlooked segment of users that these services do not cater to however, those with vast music collections stored on their hard drives. True, Google Play Music allows you to upload your tunes to their servers for streaming purposes, but that is not the best option when you're dealing with 100GB+ of music.

Time Tech recently announced their Best Inventions of 2012 list and included in the list is Google Glass, Google’s augmented reality eyewear project. This almost cliche looking piece of futuristic hardware has the potential to become as ubiquitous as cell phones or laptops. At least that’s the plan.

The Apple TV might be the perfect media center for the average tech connected home. It's tiny, it's powerful, but unfortunately aside from streaming music, it's useless.

Amazon has The Avengers on row after row of servers, in building after building in Northern Virginia, ready to stream to you as fast as you can receive its Marvel-y excitement. The price? $14.99, but the New York Times would like you to consider the batteries, diesel, disk space, and national power grid modifications necessary for that instant video.

Verizon thought it could strike down unofficial Android tethering, but the DIY hotspot movement became more powerful than it could imagine.

Keeping a journal is good; some think keeping a handwritten journal is even better

The takeaway from Google’s internet behavior research paper is that whatever device we have handy is what we’ll use to get something done, unless it’s onerous and unwieldy.

The founders of Diaspora have announced they will shifting control of the project to the Diaspora community. But why is that seen as doom by so many?

The IOC brand police are out in force in London; should Yahoo be taking notes?