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The industries with the stingiest tech budgets still manage to innovate with technology. Here's how the mining, plastics, and construction industries do it.

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Mitch Wagner

Are You Going To Comic-Con?
Comic-Con is more than just a comic-book convention. It's like Cannes for the geeky arts. It showcases comics, cult and science fiction movies and TV shows, and nerdy crafts. I'm sure there'll be at least a hundred different varieties of light sabers on sale in the dealer room. It even showcases books, for those of us who are still quaint enough to read print books anymore.

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Andrew Conry-Murray

Repetitive Strain Injury -- What Do You Do?
How are you coping with BlackBerry thumb, keyboard-induced carpal tunnel syndrome, and Guitar Hero aches?

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Mitch Wagner

Loopt Trips Over Privacy
The location-based social networking service Loopt is trying to recover from a privacy fumble, as users accuse it of spewing text-message spam and disclosing user cell phone numbers and whereabouts without permission. The controversy is sure to be a forerunner of privacy battles to come, as GPS-enabled cell phones like the iPhone enable businesses to track -- and disclose -- where people are at any given moment.

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Thomas Claburn

Ads Come To Boarding Passes
There are many ways air travel could be improved. Putting ads on passengers' boarding passes isn't one of the ways that comes to mind.

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