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The iPhone's no longer the only smartphone with a CNET News app. Our breaking stories and in-depth features are now even easier to read and browse on Android devices from the new, free CNET News app. Read about what it does and why it's worth downloading. Source: CNET Full story

VCs are funneling funds into Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and other apps that let users check-in and then broadcast their locations. We find out why on this week's show, featuring Claire Cain Miller of The New York Times and Adrianne Jeffries of ReadWriteWeb. Source: CNET Full story

Facebook has added more functionality to its search results by including all the articles a user's friends have said they "like." Source: CNET Full story

Attorney General Greg Abbott has asked Google for information regarding the complaints of several companies that Google is penalizing them in search results. Source: CNET Full story

A prototype implantable artificial kidney could, in the next decade, render costly and inefficient dialysis a treatment of the past, according to work out of UCSF. Source: CNET Full story

Though most feel safer and more in touch with mobile phones in hand, many are annoyed by the interruption of calls, says Pew Internet study. Source: CNET Full story

The newest beta of Skype 5.0 lets you video chat with up to 10 people, send an IM to someone who's offline, and better recover from dropped calls. Source: CNET Full story

Facebook gets flak from Greenpeace over its planned giant data center in Oregan, but Facebook says its efficiency will be industry-leading. Source: CNET Full story

Toshiba has gone all in for Android. At the IFA electronics show in Berlin, it displayed its Folio tablet and its AC 100 Netbook. Here's how they looked. Source: CNET Full story

At the huge IFA consumer electronics show, the big names in tech show off their newest wares, including an Android-based tablet from Samsung and a cloud-based music service from Sony. Source: CNET Full story