Taking a page from the Kindle, Barnes & Noble (BKS) is planning a Nook e-reader app for the iPhone. (MacObserver)
Is HTML5 more efficient than Flash? Sometimes. It depends on the OS and the browser. (ReadWriteWeb)
MySpace’s social app might be more popular than Facebook’s on Android phones. (Phandroid)
Brizzly’s new app brings a more robust Twitter interface [...]

Back in 2008, it seemed like only one thing was certain about the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program: It was a gamble. A really big one. The economy’s problems were unprecedented and the potential remedy untested, which meant that economists could do little more than speculate about how hundreds of billions in bailout money would [...]

This Adobe (ADBE) promotional video is worth watching for a couple of reasons. It reminds you that the iPad is merely one of many devices that are going to be here in the next few months. Apple’s antipathy toward Flash is surely one reason this video is out. It’s a reminder that Adobe has a [...]

Bike jocks everywhere are testing out Google’s (GOOG) new bicycle commuting function on Google Maps, and so far the verdict is … meh. The biggest goose egg so far is New York City, where reporters at the New York Post tested numerous recommended routes and found them “filled with potentially fatal flaws, including routes that [...]

The 661 axed auto dealers General Motors is offering to reinstate aren’t ready to pop the champagne just yet. They’re still waiting to find out about the terms they’ll have to meet to regain their franchises.

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Recently card holders have seen interest rates increase, new and higher fees. and fewer reward programs.

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Despite the growing shortage of family doctors in the United States, medical centers last year offered higher salaries and incentives to specialist nurses than to primary care doctors, according to an annual survey of physicians’ salaries.

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Now that Citigroup and AIG are rolling in the bucks, GMAC is looking like the most egregious zombie bank of them all.

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One of the most common complaints among iPhone owners is the lack of multitasking. As Apple’s (AAPL) commercials point out, you can fire up an app while making a phone call. But running a few separate third-party apps—that is, not ones bundled in the iPhone at purchase—has not been possible.
AppleInsider says an iPhone 4.0 upgrade [...]

Exxon Mobil outlined plans Thursday that rely heavily on oil from tough to reach places, extracting it from the depths of the ocean, the frozen Arctic and the tar sands in Canada’s frozen tundra.

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