• A safety bracelet for aid workers in developing countries is being developed that would let them trigger a GPS tracker and signal social media if they were kidnapped. That's a great example of useful wearable computing.
  
  
• Facebook is launching a smartphone product. It will run on the Android operating system and comes out next week.
  
  
• A ZDNet column asks whether Chromebooks replace Windows laptops. I think they're more of parallel products -- like a laptop and a smartphone -- rather than real substitutes.
  
  
• T-Mobile is gambing big with a plan to go without contracts.
  
  
• Firefox version 20 has been released. Not revolutionary, but a good addition.

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• America's true state boundaries, according to the "Where's George?" currency-tracking site
• Low natural-gas prices are saving us a fortune now, but higher prices will almost certainly cost us a lot more later.
• Every Google Street View shot should come with a date stamp so we can know the historical context of a picture -- like the collection of pre- and post-tsunami pictures from Japan.
• The Cedar Rapids Gazette is leaving the Associated Press.
• Is Facebook launching a smartphone next week? Maybe.

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• Check your Google Plus profile (you have one if you have registered for any Google service) and set your "circles" to private.
• BlackBerry is throwing everything it's got at the launch of its new phone, the Z10.
• Twitter turned seven years oldthis week.
• Someone should get the Nobel Prize for finding out how to make valuable, thoughtful content on the Internet as viral as the vortex of vanity, navel-gazing, and vapidity that is Buzzfeed.

Further notes on all of the above: Available on my site.

- Brian Gongol / mail@gongol.com / wiseguys@whoradio.com