The best tech writing of the week, July 15th

We all know the feeling. You're sleepless in the sad hours of the night or stumbling around early on a hazy weekend morning in need of something to read, and that pile of unread books just isn't cutting it.

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3 Online Tools for Finding the Perfect Job Candidate

Heather R. Huhman is the founder and president of Come Recommended, a content marketing and digital PR consultancy for organizations with products that target job seekers and/or employers. You can connect with Heather and Come Recommended on Twitter and Facebook. With so many qualified job seekers available for so few positions in the U.S.

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The Secret History of Microsoft Hardware

"Microsoft is not a hardware company." How many times have you heard this or read this? I'm guessing more than once. It's a simple lie we keep telling ourselves despite the underlying truth: Microsoft has been designing and selling hardware products for 32 out of its 37 years in business.

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In Age of Twitter, NBC Rewrites Olympic Playbook

In NBC's Rockefeller Center headquarters, workers were hustling Friday to transform the "Saturday Night Live" sound stage into a command center for coverage of the 2012 Olympics Games. Much of this is familiar territory for America's No. 3 network. NBC has broadcast nearly all the summer games to the U.S.

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Newly Updated Bitly For iPhone Is Not Short On Important Features -- AppAdvice

The official iOS client of the popular URL shortener bit.ly has just been updated with several new features. The app, simply called bitly, offers practically the same ease of use as its desktop counterpart. Of course, it lets you shorten links into bit.ly bookmarks or bitmarks.

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