That score in the big orange box may not be telling you exactly what you think it is.

Klout is measuring influence, but not in the way that seems most obvious. And to understand the company, you have to understand exactly what business it's in.

Source:
http://technologyshowdown.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-heck-is-my-klout-score-higher-than.html

Verizon customers craving a thin LTE smartphone with all-day battery life get their wish later this week.

The carrier is launching Motorolas Droid Razr Maxx on Jan. 26 for $299 with contract.

Source:
http://gigaom.com/mobile/even-at-299-droid-razr-maxx-may-be-a-verizon-hit/

Nintendo will launch its Wii U video game console -- the successor to the wildly successful but aging Nintendo Wii -- in the U.S. and other key markets in time for the holiday shopping season later...

Source:
http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/26/nintendo-confirms-wii-u-to-launch-by-year-end/

Samsung has done incredibly well with their Galaxy range of smartphones, with the Samsung Galaxy S II being one of the most popular Android handsets available.

We recently heard that the next generation Samsung Galaxy S smartphone would be unveiled at MWC 2012 next month, the Samsung Galaxy S III and also heard that the ...

Source:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/geeky-gadgets/~3/qDh8M2hubb0/

When it comes to significant events that are shared across the country (and sometimes the world), Twitter is getting increasingly good at making sense of the real-time data collected from tweets.

Take for example last nights State of the Union address, which racked up 766,681 tweets during the full 95-minute event.

Source:
http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/25/twitter-data-state-of-the-union/

When it comes to significant events that are shared across the country (and sometimes the world), Twitter is getting increasingly good at making sense of the real-time data collected from tweets.

Take for example last nights State of the Union address, which racked up 766,681 tweets during the full 95-minute event.

Source:
http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/25/twitter-data-state-of-the-union/

This landscape may not look like that much - it's a solid B+ in middle school art, I'd say - but this might just be proof that its creator, a computer program named the Painting Fool, is a creative being.

The program is the brainchild of Dr.

Source:
http://io9.com/5879423/a-computer-program-painted-this-artwork-from-its-own-imagination