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Study Finds More Young Kids Can Work a Smartphone Than Tie Their Shoes

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 24, 2011 at 10:05 am PT

A new study also found that 2-to-5-year-olds are also more likely to be able to open a Web browser than swim on their own. Mobilized thinks it is time to make cellphones waterproof so these kids can text for help if they ever fall out of a boat.

Kara Tours the New Facebook HQ (And Gets Ripped): The Uncut Video!

Kara Swisher in News on June 15, 2009 at 5:00 pm PT

Last week, in anticipation of Facebook’s Press Open House tonight for its spanking new HQ in Palo Alto, Calif., BoomTown hightailed it down there for an early look-see at what the social-networking site is doing with all that dough it collected from Microsoft and the Russians. Moving into a new crib, for one thing! I got an extra-special tour of the new 150,000-square-foot building, which brings more than 900 employees together at last, by Facebook’s long-suffering–mostly due to my being annoying, I know!–PR honcho, Brandee Barker. So, much like the tour I did recently with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone of its San Francisco HQ, here is a video of Facebook’s new digs.

Getting a New Windows Computer With XP

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on August 13, 2008 at 5:00 pm PT

Walt Mossberg answers readers’ questions about how to get a new Windows computer with the XP operating system, small portable radios, and the functions of MailBug.