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Nearly half of smart phones are passing personal info to outsiders.

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Google Maps has a distance calculator, a URL shortener, a geography game and a “what’s around here” button.

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Sometimes American help is cheaper than Pakistani.

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One zettabyte equals one trillion gigabytes. In ten years, five zettabytes of data will reside “in the cloud…”

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MyJobChart.com is a free online service that lets you set up a task board to assign chores to your children and select rewards for doing them.

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A couple of cute Valentine’s shows are playing at PBSkids.org/video. Search on the word “Valentine” at the top of the screen and look for the words “full episode.” The shorter ones are just commercials for various shows. You can also see Valentine videos at pbskids.org/go/video/

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Bizzy recommends restaurants and shops, based on your responses to a questionnaire.

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PBS.org has new science and technology sections.

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On “How Smart Are Animals?” we watched a border collie retrieve any toy by name from a group of a thousand.

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Grooveshark.com is free online radio.

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