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Zite is one of many personalized news readers to hit the smaller screens of smartphones recently.  But unlike most news readers that update with all news stories from sites you select, Zite learns from what you choose to read to provide a more finely individualized news magazine.

Incorporating your Twitter feed , Google Reader , or even Read it Later – or letting you choose from featured topics  Zite hopes to let you find the content you may be missing from other mobile news readers and magazines like Flipboard.  But the best feature is how the app learns from the user, using the kind of stories you read, how long you read them, and the stories you don’t click on,  to continually give you a more meaningful magazine experience.

The Zite app for iPhone follows a March release of the iPad version, and can link up with that version through an account on Zite.  According to Zite CEO Mark Johnson, the iPhone app “had more than a thousand downloads in the first hour,” showing that Zite is very much up for the competition of smartphone news readers.

Sky watchers on the US west coast all the way over to east Asia are in for a rare treat in the early morning hours this Saturday, December 10th. A total lunar eclipse will grace the sky and is anticipated to be one of the brightest, deepest red moons in years.

According to NASA, “The action begins around 4:45 am Pacific Standard Time when the red shadow of Earth first falls across the lunar disk.  By 6:05 am Pacific Time, the Moon will be fully engulfed in red light. This event—the last total lunar eclipse until 2014—is visible from the Pacific side of North America, across the entire Pacific Ocean to Asia and Eastern Europe.”

Here’s a video explaining the science behind what we’ll see. Below, we ha

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Motorola Droid Bionic owners will love to hear this. Finally, the bug fix update for the handset is slowly reaching the users.

The Verizon’s first dual-core 4G LTE smartphone has been facing many problems in the 3G/4G data connectivity, audio, Mobile Hotspot and more, from the launch back in September. The fix update developed by Motorola will be released to a group of some thousands of Droid Bionic handsets for testing today.

It has been reported that the Droid Bionic users registered in the Motorola Feedback Network has started getting the update notification on their phones. T

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The bad news is, apparently some of us absolutely cannot sit through a play or opera or ballet performance without tweeting The good news is, in some theaters, those tweeters will have their own section As more theatergoers live-tweet performances, so-called “tweet seats” are becoming “a national trend,” the director of a Shakespeare festival tells USA Today To wit, art-minded tweeters will find a place at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Raleighs Carolina Ballet, and Ohios Dayton Opera In at least one theater, the seats are in the back row so that other audience members are not disturbed

One audience member who tweeted about a CSO performance says she appreciated being able to “communicate openly about my reactions to the music, musicians, and conductor—without speaking a word” Of course, not everyone is hopping on the bandwagon—particularly, not big venues like New York Citys Carnegie Hall or Washingtons Kennedy Center And not all audience members are on board, either Says one who sat near tweeters during a CSO performance last month, “They didnt even look up to applaud at the end of each selection The fact that they were watching their hand-held devices, they missed out on what was happening on the stage”

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