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Apple co-founder and chairman Steve Jobs who passed away in October was hailed as a successful technology entrepreneur, having built up one of the most recognized consumer electronics companies globally and creating some of the most coveted devices around the world. ZDNet Asia spoke to industry insiders on noteworthy traits to apply when it comes to running your company, based on lessons gleaned from the tech veteran.

How to connect MailChimp campaigns to Facebook using MailChimp's app.

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A free, open-source app called BrailleTouch is about to make  texting without looking at our phones much easier--for the visually impaired and sighted alike.

Facebook has been making an effort to attract journalists through its subscribe feature. Apparently it has had some considerable degree of success. Those using the tool have reportedly seen an average increase of 320% since it was launched in November. Naysayers suggest this increase is more to do with quantity than quality and Twitter remains a better tool for journalists. Elsewhere, funnily enough, teenagers seem to be saying something fairly similar. Conversation is better on Twitter. The Next Web describes how some journalists are complaining that they are collecting thousands of followers through their Facebook "Subscribe" buttons who appear to have no interest in their work. These new subscribers, they say, leave comments that are irrelevant, "spammy" or even obscene.

Forget Dale Carnegie. He understood how important connections were, but missed out on the authenticity part -- which, say Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha, authors of The Start-Up of You, is the key to building a truly helpful professional network. Here's how to leverage that network into the career you only dreamed of.

Technology Review published by MIT, describes an experiment which shows bots may not simply be a form of irritation. The research project started when a group of freelance web researchers created "sophisticated Twitter bots, dubbed 'socialbots,' that can not only fool people into thinking they are real people, but also serve as virtual social connectors, speeding up the natural rate of human-to-human communication."

List of 50 new apps that can help you shoot better smartphone photos or catalog your bottle-cap collection. You may have dozens of apps on your phone and scores of websites bookmarked on your laptop, but that doesn't mean you have all the latest tech tools at your fingertips. New mobile apps, services, social networks and other digital tools pop up so frequently that keeping up with them is a nearly impossible task. Just when you think you're up to date, something newer and hipper comes along.

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Bran Cohen has turned his attention to developing a more efficient means of video streaming, again using peer-to-peer methods.

An app that allows U.K. asthma sufferers to manage their condition is officially launched today. Developers say that other European countries will be added shortly. A recent survey in the U.K. shows that almost 50% do not have their asthma under control. MyAsthma is aimed giving sufferers a simple objective test to allow them to measure their condition and manage it.

Timeline organizes your life in reverse chronological order based on the content you've shared on your Facebook profile. The layout is designed as a dual-column view with a large main column for viewing content and a smaller one on the right for fast navigation. If you've entered when you graduated high school or college, when you got married, when your first child was born or when you started a new job, all that data will show up in your Timeline. You can also go back and add photos and captions to important past events, or remove particularly embarrassing photos or other content from your new profile page.

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Social networking is generally more common in higher income nations; however, this is largely driven by the fact that wealthier countries have higher rates of internet access. People in lower income nations who have online access use social networking at rates that are as high, or higher, than those found in affluent countries.

Coder Dojo, a successful Irish not-for-profit, is branching out to the U.K. to help schoolchildren learn how to program.

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Learn how to filter out objectionable comments on YouTube, configure Google Alerts, and enable autofill in Chrome.

From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Wall Street protests, this year has been full of political turmoil and unrest--and if there's one recurring trend we've noticed, it's that the most timely, powerful coverage doesn't come from a cable news channel, but from normal people on the ground floor.