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Government creates app for safety recalls

The federal government wants to make it easier for you to learn about safety recalls.

Bored cat? There's an app for that!

If you're have trouble keeping your pet cat indoors, the interactive iPad Cat App might be for you.

At 5: Google's privacy settings change to collect more info

It's no secret, the web sites you visit keep tabs on you, track where you go, what you're looking at all in the name of advertising dollars. And Google is now taking things a step further, storing the information they gather about you from all of their platforms on a single system.

UALR offers app to access coursework

Beginning this semester, UALR is launching Blackboard Mobile Learn, a free app that allows students access to their courses directly from their smartphones.

Smartphone owners use their apps for different reasons

If you have a smartphone, you likely have a few apps on there. Felicia Taylor has some surprising details about how many of us have apps and how we're using them

Today's Web Report: Timeline coming to Facebook, like it or not

In the next few weeks, all Facebook users will have to start using its new Timeline feature.

Data Privacy Day promoting safe online practices

Arkansas officially declared January 29 as Data Privacy Day in the Natural State.

NFL's Ochocinco, U.S. House speaker trade tweets

Chad Ochocinco, meet the speaker of the U.S. House. On Twitter, of course.

Apple becoming hottest company in U.S.

iPhones, iPads, Mac computers; Apple is one of the hottest companies out there, and its sales set records last quarter.

Organizing your life digitally

Obama to 'hang out' in live video chat room

Google announced Monday that Obama will participate in a 45-minute live video chat room known as a "Hangout," part of the online search giant's social networking site Google Plus.

Textbooks may soon be on your iPad

It seems you can get almost everything on the latest tablet devices such as music, movies, books and games. But now, Apple is exploring a new frontier by taking textbooks digital.

Local web expert breaks down SOPA

Web expert Bryan Jones is with the local ad agency, Cranford Johnson Robinson and Woods. Jones is also a prolific web user and is well known in the Arkansas Twitter and Facebook communities. In this THVideo, he breaks SOPA down for us.

Online companies take a stand against SOPA with blackout

"Imagine a world without free knowledge". Those are the words on the home page of Wikipedia, which has taken down its website as part of a coordinated political protest supported by websites including Google, Minecraft and Boing Boing.

Wikipedia goes dark in anti-piracy bill protest

Wikipedia was one of several websites to shut down at midnight in protest of anti-piracy bills that critics say could amount to censorship.