Meetings don’t have to be the bane of the workday existence. Try scheduling them in 22-minute blocks to get more out of them and spend less time hating them.

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Blogger Scott Berkun recommends latching onto Nicole Steinbok’s 22-minute meeting idea as a good metric for sticking to agendas and keeping meetings from becoming a time-sink.

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Sometime later this year, HP will release its Slate tablet PC device. What we know now is that it will run Windows 7 as well as Adobe Flash and Air, according to information revealed by an HP executive. However, it appears that the company is attempting to be quite selective about how and when it doles out further details on ...read more

Viacom’s chief executive, Philippe Dauman, told Bloomberg that Comedy Central’s top TV shows may return to Hulu if it is willing to change its business model.

Viacom and Comedy Central recently pulled ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’ and ‘The Colbert Report’ from the online video site.

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Lady Gaga will find her way to the Rock Band store next week. Four songs will be available, along with one cover track with vocals from South Park’s Cartman.

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We’ll just come right out and say it: Guitar Hero and Rock Band should watch their back, ’cause there’s a better-than-decent chance that Power Gig will be all the rage this holiday season. Seven45 Studios is a heretofore unheard of upstart with roots in First Act, and unlike the vast majority of game developers, these guys actually have a direct ...read more

SV Angel, the angel fund founded by super-angel Ron Conway, is losing one of its general partners to a portfolio company. Brian Pokorny is now the CEO of fast-growing Silicon Valley-based Dailybooth.

Dailybooth, the runner up in the “best social app” and winner of the “time sink” categories at this year’s Crunchies Awards, is “your life in pictures.” Some 6 million ...read more

Can the world handle yet another location-based social network?

Andreessen-Horowitz is betting it can, after investing $500,000 with Baseline Ventures into Burbn. Burbn is a stealth location-sharing project from a well-connected former Googler, Kevin Systrom, who has had stints at several different companies including Odeo, the podcasting startup that begat Twitter.

Several blogs reported the funding last week, but few had details on ...read more

<a It’s standard operating practice for the music industry: Musicians sue label, claiming they got screwed out of royalties.

But from a writer’s perspective, it’s always nice when it’s a well-known act whose catalog includes a hit called “Money”.

Pink Floyd’s suit against EMI is technically about online royalties and the fact that EMI has been selling the group’s work as singles ...read more

As was widely expected, Rogers today announced the immediate availability of the Samsung Galaxy Spica. The carrier’s fourth Android smartphone, the Galaxy Spica offers a 3.2″ AMOLED HVGA capacitive display, 3.2 megapixel camera, GPS, Wi-Fi, 3.6Mbps HSDPA/UMTS, 800MHz processor and up to 7 hours of talk time and 10 days of standby for $79.99 on a standard 3-year deal. Anyone ...read more

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Microsoft has just released updates to the 2004 and 2008 versions of Microsoft Office. According to the company, the updates, which weigh in at 9.7 MB and 221.5 MB respectively, provide “fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code” as well as improvements to stability ...read more