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Apple okays Google Latitude for iPhone

Location-sharing app appears in App Store nearly two years after Google said it was 'coming soon'

5 Cool Gifts for Digital Music Lovers

Cloud drives speech recognition forward for Microsoft

Microsoft says that it can rapidly improve the technology by using the cloud to learn about how people use voice recognition

U.S. online holiday shopping tops $21B

So far this season, online spending is up 12% over 2009

China Mobile to improve smartphone OS with new alliance

Samsung to sell luxury Galaxy Tab for about $1,000, reports say

Firm looks to boost Android, Galaxy awareness for users of models at all price points

Modem ‘hand-off’ from 3G to LTE can take two minutes, Verizon says

Telcom says fix under way for LTE connection problem, which also crops up when simply reconnecting to the 4G wireless network

‘Human cloud’ of skilled workers growing in importance

The flexible employment model brings in nearly $1 billion per year of income, an executive says

Oracle asks Apache to reconsider Java committee departure

Oracle is hoping to salvage the relationship after fallout

Despite recession, finance job competition stays strong

CFO hiring plans and an uptick in employed workers searching for new jobs indicates the start of economic recovery