Apple Acquires Chomp; App Store Search And Discovery To Be Completely Revamped  —  With the countdown underway to 25 billion total app downloads, there's no disputing the success of Apple's App Store.  We live in a world of hyperbole, but Apple's entry into this space really has changed the entire mobile world.

Apple Readying ‘Products That Will Blow Your Mind’  —  Apple's Tim Cook, addressing shareholders for the first time since he took over as CEO from Steve Jobs in August, said today the company will introduce mind-blowing products this year.  —  “You can be assured we are working as hard …

Apple wants to reinvent keyboards, making them even thinner  —  Apple could make its notebook computers and keyboard accessories even thinner and lighter with a brand new take on the classic input method.  —  Apple's interest in reinventing the keyboard was revealed in a new patent application discovered this week by AppleInsider.

Your Circles, now in Google Voice  —  To help make it even easier for you to organize your contacts, today we're adding Google+ Circles to Google Voice.  Circles give you more control over how you manage your callers; for example, calls from your “Creepers” circle can be sent straight to Voicemail …

Votizen Gets a Celebrity Round of Funding to Connect Social Media and Politics  —  American politics in the age of the Super PAC are all about money.  But meanwhile over on the Internet, connecting and mobilizing networks of people is easier than ever.  —  (See: the SOPA and PIPA online protests …

Throttling unlimited data plans is pointless, study finds  —  AT&T's questionable policy with regard to unlimited smartphone data plan holders recently found its way back into the limelight following a new wave of subscriber complaints.  The nation's No.2 carrier no longer offers …

A closer look at Microsoft's Office 15 Technical Preview  —  Microsoft's next-generation Office suite recently reached the Technical Preview stage, allowing third parties to test Microsoft's pre-beta code.  The software giant released early copies of Office 15 to a number of businesses …

The challenge of wooing Generation C  —  As Nielsen coins a new term to describe young adults ages 18-34, a group it considers bound together by a digitally connected lifestyle, one Gen C'er has some advice for advertisers.  —  The C in “Generation C,” not surprisingly, stands for connected.

Google Music not living up to expectations (exclusive)  —  Google Music was supposed to have an inside track marketing music to the 200 million Android users, but performance so far is not what was expected.  —  Three months after launching, Google Music hasn't lived up to expectations, CNET has learned.

How I Found the Human Being Behind Horse_ebooks, The Internet's Favorite Spambot  —  Horse_ebooks became a bona fide internet celebrity when organizers of ROFLCON, the premier conference on internet pop culture, asked in January: “Anyone know how we might be able to get in touch with @horse_ebooks?”

Google to Replace Motorola Mobility CEO  —  Google Inc. (GOOG), which won U.S. approval for its acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI), is close to naming Dennis Woodside to run the business when the deal closes, three people familiar with the matter said.

Marc Benioff Is Thinking Bigger  —  Salesforce beat Wall Street expectations and its investors benefited generously.  After announcing revenue of $632 million, up 38% from a year ago, shares jumped 10% in after-hours trading.  That puts the already pricey stock in the stratosphere.

Canalys: Android apps cost 2.5X more than iPhone apps  —  The top 100 paid apps total $374.37 on Android Market, $147 on the Apple App Store  —  Here's a puzzler.  —  Although conventional wisdom has it that Apple (AAPL) iPhone users are more inclined to pay for apps than the owners of Google …

Testing the speed of comment systems for blogs  —  For blogs and many other types of sites, getting an interaction going with readers is essential.  But it would seem that many believe that installing a third-party comment system on a website, something like Disqus, IntenseDebate, or LiveFyre, drags down the site's speed considerably.

Intel distributes LibreOffice, can Microsoft be pleased?  —  Intel supports LibreOffice, can Microsoft be pleased?  —  LibreOffice, the OpenOffice fork, is a very popular open-source office suite.  But, while it has great support from Linux distributors, like openSUSE and Ubuntu …

Apple getting ready to ditch the traditional iPhone, iPad, and iPod dock connector  —  An updated “micro dock” would make room for bigger batteries, 4G radios, and other components far more important to the iPhone and iPad in a PC free world.  —  We've heard that Apple is getting ready …

Facebook Redesigns Groups To Be More Timeline-y and Purposeful, Less Spammy  —  Today Facebook rolled out a limited redesign of Groups, featuring a big new Timeline-style cover image, and a prompt for users to prominently label “What should people post in this group?”

Exclusive: Susan Molinari to head Google's D.C. office  —  Former congresswoman Susan Molinari was named head of Google's Washington office on Thursday, increasing the tech giant's government firepower at a time of rising scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators on high-stakes issues that include privacy and antitrust.

Mind the gap!  Spotify now with gapless playback and crossfade  —  Here at Spotify, we're always looking for ways to improve the music you hear.  That's why we're so pleased to announce the release of gapless playback and crossfade - coming soon with your next Spotify upgrade.

BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 review  —  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the world of email.  Yes, email!  Sure, many of you have given up on the stuff in favor of more instant means of communication, but don't worry, because that's here too!  Yes, the BlackBerry PlayBook …