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App Happy
Need a Ride?
New apps like Cabulous, Groundlink and Getaround let you easily book and pay for yellow cabs, stretch limousines and even neighbor's cars.

iPad as Sous Chef
Turn your magic slate into the ultimate cook's companion
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App Makes Readers' Thoughts an Open Book
Katherine Boehret looks at Subtext, a free iPad app designed to enable and encourage conversations among readers within digital books themselves.
- Video: A Social Network For Readers of E-Books
The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Turn your iPhone into a music machine that transforms mundane sounds into magical masterpieces.
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Talk Is Cheap on Nokia's New Phone
Walt Mossberg reviews Nokia's Lumia 710, the $50 device that gets the most common smartphone tasks done for a bargain price.
- Video: How Much Phone Can You Get for $50?
The Brightest, Most Efficient Bulbs
Katherine Boehret offers a brief guide to the latest energy-efficient light bulbs.
- Video: Which Light Bulb is Best For You?
A Doctor in Your Pocket
What does the future of medicine hold? Tiny health monitors, tailored therapies—and the end of illness, says David B. Agus.
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Shazam Offers Its Own Player That Streams Music Lyrics
The world is calling out for a better music player, both on the desktop and on your iOS device. Step forward Shazam and the company's first new product since the launch of its eponymous music discovery app.
PowerPoint, Word, Excel for the iPad
Walt Mossberg reviews an app that brings the full, genuine Windows versions of key Office productivity apps to iPad.
- Video | Mossberg's Mailbox
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Tech Charms: Flying Cameras, Musical Purses
Meeting the changing demands of users is a big theme of this year's Consumer Electronics Show, which features 3,100 companies introducing some 20,000 products.
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Consumer Electronics Association: Devices Getting Simpler
For the last half-century, consumer electronics have been getting more complex. Now, they're getting simpler.
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PC Firms Bet on Ultrabooks
Intel's crusade to redefine the personal computer is entering a crucial phase, as a new breed of sleek skinny portables jostle for consumer attention.

What They Know

Senators Offer Privacy Bill
Sens. John Kerry and John McCain proposed legislation that would establish a "privacy bill of rights" to protect people from the increasingly invasive commercial data-collection industry.
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Ad Industry Looks Again at 'Do Not Track'
Big advertisers, ad agencies and ad networks are working with Internet-browser makers on a "do-not-track" system, a shift from the industry's previous skepticism about such a tool.
- digits: Ad Industry Shifts View on 'Do Not Track'
Technology Report
Top 10 Life-Changing Apps
From a handy way to store a range of passwords to an application that will help keep track of ongoing alcohol consumption, The Wall Street Journal Europe presents 10 apps you can't live without.
Even Better Than the Real Thing
"Augmented reality" is the latest buzz technology to grip the digital world. The commercial opportunities for companies that embrace it are vast, even if not immediately obvious.

Columns

The digital solution
By Katherine Boehret
App Makes Readers' Thoughts an Open Book
Personal technology
By Walter S. Mossberg
Family Bonding Around TV Via Skype

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All Things Digital

Reporter's Journal

Confessions of an iPhone Data Hog
Our reporter discovers her iPhone movie-watching and music-streaming has unexpectedly pushed her into the top 5% of AT&T's data users.
- Downside of Being One of Best Customers
- AT&T High-Data Usage Letter
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Family Bonding Around TV Via Skype
Tely Labs' telyHD turns Skype video chats into room-size experiences, involving whole families or groups of friends on each end—seeing each other, chatting and sharing photos in high definition.
- Video | Mossberg's Mailbox
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Live From Vegas, It's Geekfest 2012
The best, worst and most annoying things Off Duty's Gear & Gadgets editor saw at the Consumer Electronics Show—fresh from the Twittersphere.
How Google & Co. Will Rule Your Rep
It's time to worry about what you've spilled to the world, says Holly Finn.
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Digging Deeper Into Roots
Katherine Boehret takes a fresh look at her family tree using a revamped Ancestry.com.