A recent survey indicates that the 9-5 workday and the 5-day workweek are both dead as workers no longer know when to disconnect and walk away. Workweek - United States - Labor - Social Sciences - Arts

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While Apple's iOS is still the dominant player within the U.S. mobile market, it's been on a pretty steady roller coaster ride downward in terms of share. Roller coaster - Apple - Recreation - Theme Parks - Attractions

Duke Nukem Forever gets a new lease in life, and even makes an appearance on the PAX show floor. Duke Nukem - Duke Nukem Forever - 3D Realms - Gearbox - George Broussard

Analysis: Apple's Ping is a new iTunes-based social network. Unfortunately, it's already beset with a very old problem: rampant comment spam. Apple - iTunes - Social network - Spam - E-mail

UPDATE: Armin Van Buuren is one of the world's best-known trance music DJs. He also apparently has had his credit card details stolen. Armin van Buuren - Disc jockey - Trance music - Music - dj

UPDATE: Texas joins the European Union and others with gripes against Google's practices; a coming of age or web bully? Google - Searching - Search Engines - Companies - Web search engine

UPDATE: The enterprise disk storage market is continuing to bounce back from the depths of the recession, IDC says. International Data Corporation - Hardware - Storage - Information technology - Hewlett-Packard

Google agrees to pay $8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over privacy problems with Google Buzz. Google - Google Buzz - Class action - Searching - Search Engines

Spam is already clogging Ping's boards, and many bloggers aren't thrilled with Ping's implementation. Apple - Spam - iTunes - E-mail - Social network

New IBM research shows a way to move live cloud deployments across different storage networks. IBM - Hardware - Mainframe - Operating Systems - Historical

Apple scores a first: More people browsed the Net last month with its mobile operating system than used Linux to do so. Linux - Android - Mobile operating system - Operating system - Apple

The latest batch of iPods unveiled by Apple earlier this week are about to begin shipping, and this latest generation brings some pretty big changes across... Apple - IPod - IpodTouch - Steve Jobs - IpodNano

An iPod event is always followed by some cases, and here are some of the highlights of the first batch. IPod - IpodTouch - IpodNano - Shopping - Digital Portable Players

Twitter and other online services have made shortening URLs a regular chore; such URLs are handy not only on social networks, but anytime you need to share links... Twitter - Social network - Uniform Resource Locator - Online Com...

TV makers lock down these deals to convey the idea that 3D content actually exists, and Hollywood studios like the deals because they provide a guaranteed return on the 3D investment. Television - Avatar - Blu-ray Disc - Panasoni...

A consumer rights group has created a cartoon showing Google CEO Schmidt as an child-baiting ice cream truck driver and put it on a billboard in Times Square. Who's being evil here? Google - Times Square - Consumer Watchdog - Ice...

After the Apple TV device, Apple could put its internally developed A4 chip in low-power devices or networked media center devices. Apple - appletv - Apple A4 - Companies - Macintosh

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When Steve Jobs introduced iTunes 10 last week, the aspect he seemed most excited about was Ping, which he described as a, "social network for music" that... Steve Jobs - Social network - Apple - ITunes Store - Facebook

It took a completely different developer to get the game on track, but it looks like Borderlands developer Gearbox is going to make Duke Nukem Forever a reality at last. Duke Nukem Forever - Gearbox - Duke Nukem - 3D Realms - Bor...

Now that I’ve been using the GM release for the past 24 hours, I can safely say- iOS 4.1 on iPhone (including the 3G) is the most solid, responsive iOS release to date. With some cool new features to boot. iPhone - iPhone 3G -...

The consumer advocacy group's anti-Google commercial seems to alarmist rather than raising privacy awareness. Google - Consumer Watchdog - Searching - Search Engines - Eric E. Schmidt

Considering the Magic Mouse's ( Macworld rated 3.5 out of 5 mice ) futuristic, gesture-controlled appeal, replacing its dead AA batteries with new ones might... AppleMagicMouse - AA battery - Mouse - Rodent - MagicMouse

A clever spammer found a glitch in Facebook's photo upload service that allowed him to spam thousands of users. Facebook - Spam - E-mail - Social network - Apple

Since Facebook has yet to release a native iPad app--or give any real indication that one is in the works--third parties have capitalized on the opportunity to... Facebook - IPad - Online Communities - Social Networking - Since F...

Hewlett-Packard swooped in with the better bid to overtake Dell and win 3Par, so now we can all sit back and wait for the next acquisition battle to roll around... Hewlett-Packard - Dell - Apple - HP - Hardware

A Massachusetts high school is using specialized software for reporting bullying incidents after a student's suicide. Bullying - High school - Suicide - Massachusetts - Violence and Abuse

Twitter now has more than 145 million registered users and many of them still use Twitter's underwhelming Website as a primary access point. Twitter - Social network - Online Communities - IPhone - Trending and Popularity

Toshiba is the latest to recall laptops that pose a fire hazard or risk of injury--highlighting the growing concern of excessive heat generated from cramming more processing power into smaller portable computers. Toshiba - Laptop...

A Nigerian advance-fee scammer, Okpako Diamreyan, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison by a federal judge. Advance-fee fraud - Fraud - Humor - Nigeria - Business

A widely used program for Web spidering can be hijacked for malicious purposes. Operating system - Linux distribution - Linux - Distributions - Directories

Apple has just announced their annual changes to the company's media devices: this year, the iPod Touch, Nano and Apple TV have all been revamped. Nate Ralph takes a look. Apple - iPod Touch - iPod - AppleTV - ipodnano

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A new study suggests adolescents exposed to driving and racing games may be more inclined to drive recklessly when they get their driving license. Grand Theft Auto - Racing video game - Video game - Games - Driver's license

Built-in Firefox Sync and improved responsiveness get Mozilla's Fennec mobile browser off to a good start. Fennec - Mozilla Foundation - Firefox - Android - Nokia N900

Apple claims that the upcoming iOS 4.1 update will resolve the issue with the iPhone 4 proximity sensor, but developers who have tested out the latest release of iOS challenge that claim. IPhone - Apple - IOS - iPhone 4 - Smartph...

Facebook is apparently blocking Ping integration until the companies can work out coding and capacity issues. Apple - Facebook - iTunes - Steve Jobs - Social network

Sorry, the contract-free, data-only iPhone is still a fantasy -- although the revamped iPod can do a lot. IPhone - IpodTouch - iPod - Apple - Apple iPod

Consumer Watchdog attacks Google, CEO Schmidt with Times Square ad (on Google's YouTube). Google - YouTube - Searching - Search Engines - Time Square

Music sleuths have some new tools waiting in the App Store. On Friday, Shazam Entertainment released a major 3.0 upgrade to the free and paid versions of its... Shazam - App Store - Shazam Entertainment - Cisco IOS - IPhone

As a certified—and possibly certifiable—movie trailer aficionado, I’ve been a devoted visitor of Apple’s trailers page for years. But if you want to go a step... Apple - Film trailer - Trailers - Business...

UPDATE: Samsung has finally revealed the Galaxy Tab, which will start shipping in October. Samsung Group - Android - Galaxy Tab - Verizon - Samsung Galaxy Tab

Accenture, Cisco and Sun continue to fight against charges that they engaged in a widespread kickback scheme involving government contracts. Cisco Systems - Cisco - Accenture - Government - Data Communications

Toshiba Satellite laptops were voluntarily recalled for posing a burn hazard to customers. Laptop - Toshiba - Toshiba Satellite - U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission - Satellite

Last November, I wrote about how my Magic Mouse would repeatedly lose its connection to my Mac Pro. After some effort, I gave up trying to resolve it—and went... magicmouse - Magic - Performing Arts - Arts - Apple

Ping.fm benefit claims from Apple's Ping splash are questionable after further analysis. Apple - Facebook - Social network - iTunes - Steve Jobs

Germany will soon launch a service to help consumers remove malicious software from their computers in an attempt to stem the spread of spam-sending botnets. Malware - Botnet - E-mail - Spam - 2002

The Samsung Galaxy Tab looks like a formidable challenger capable of taking on the Apple iPad, but Samsung still has some hurdles to cross for the Android tablet to succeed. Apple - IPad - Samsung i7500 - Android - Galaxy Tab

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Analysis: Apple has dominated digital music sales for close to a decade. Can the company that popularized paid digital music maintain its position? Apple - Digital audio - Macintosh - Steve Job - Articles

On Friday, ViewSonic launched its second tablet at IFA. The ViewPad 100 runs Windows 7 Home Premium and Android version 1.6. Android - Window 7 - tablet - ViewSonic - Operating system

Twitter's mobile use is up more than 60 percent since the release of several official mobile applications. Twitter - iPhone - Online Communities - Social Networking - Evan Williams

As you’re aware, Apple just released iTunes 10. With that release has come some changes—both expected and not so. Apple - iTunes - Automator - Macintosh - Articles