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Imagine you were offered a dream job that required you to relocate to your favorite city. Which city would it be? And why?

If you're like most Americans, you might select New York, San Diego, or San Francisco, according to a soon-to-be released survey of 2,500 employees and entrepreneurs across the nation by the Human Capital Institute, a Washington-based think tank and professional association largely made up of human resources professionals.

A few short months ago, many of us were under the impression that this year's LA Auto Show would be a great showcasing of a new direction for the worldwide auto industry. Everyone knew about the MINI E and expected to see more hybrids and fuel cell concepts than ever before. How naive we were.

Shopping online is one of the great luxuries of modern life and it has its environmental benefits. It keeps us from using our cars and, in the case of online-only stores, removes the need for energy-demanding, brick-and-mortar stores. But when you factor in the fuel-using, emission-producing trucks that deliver the products, it becomes clear that online shopping has its environmental cost.

So...now we finally know what the 2010 Prius looks like, and it comes with a few other choice bits of information. While Toyota wasn't planning to release the final design of the car until the Detroit Auto Show, the pictures leaked last week and were Today confirmed to be pictures of the final design.

For the most part, the callers were calm, patiently asking for the fastest path out of New Orleans or some other Gulf Coast city as Hurricane Gustav twisted its way to the northwest.

They started calling General Motors Corp.'s OnStar service by the thousands early Saturday, and by Sunday their numbers had grown to more than 3,000 an hour.

As more than 2 million people tried to outrun the deadly storm, OnStar beefed up its staff to around 500 and put emergency plans in place at three call centers in Pontiac, Mich.; Oshawa, Canada; and Charlotte, N.C.

Police arrested Manhattan resident Anton Dunn, 42, late Thursday after it was alleged he posted three videos on YouTube claiming to have poisoned millions of jars of Gerber baby food.

Unlocking a cell phone is something of a Houdini-esque exercise. Sure, it's possible to tweak a handset so it works on a network other than the one for which it was designed. But it requires following a series of steps that the average consumer may find complicated -- and which could render the device useless.

Steve Ballmer has been chief executive at Microsoft for eight years, but he is finally getting to move into the corner office vacated by Bill Gates, the college friend who brought him to the company nearly three decades ago.

The pressure of leading the world's largest software maker will only escalate in the wake of a bungled attempt to acquire Yahoo, a move that led Yahoo to forge closer ties with Google instead.

Adding fuel to the fire has been a lukewarm reception by customers for the flagship Microsoft product, Windows Vista.

It’s not often that a blogger has the opportunity to meet with GM engineers and test drive a one-of-a-kind prototype, but that’s exactly the opportunity I was given the other day. GM first presented a run-down of the interesting tech (which we've written up here) and then handed over the keys so I could see what I thought first hand.