What will the key changes be in business and design during 2013, and what should you do about it? Here are five predictions from the design firm Fjord.

Google Maps is now available as a free iOS6 app. Which, broadly translated, means that all the miserable iPhone 5 gremlins who've been reminiscing about the good old days when they could see their feet using the iPhone's built-in Google mapping service, as they kvetch about Apple's young, green, but well-meaning, map service, can switcheroo to Google Maps.

If you aren't on Twitter, you might scoff at the idea of sending out messages using 140 characters or less. But you'd be amazed what you can say in so short a space. The pope will find it a refreshing change from those long encyclicals, papal bulls and decrees. He plans to offer simple pearls of wisdom. That's what I get from the inspirational people I follow on Twitter.

Images from Instagram, the photo-sharing app that lets user spruce up their work with a slate of arty and retro filters, no longer show up on Twitter, a popular place to share them. The change, foreshadowed when photos began appearing buggy on Twitter last week, was confirmed Sunday by both Twitter and Instagram. It marks a shift in how the app will be used and signals a new round in the escalating feud between two of the Web's social media titans.

When Cesar Kuriyama started selecting one second of video to represent each day, it changed his life. Now he's building an app he hopes will change yours.

Two seconds. That's when Internet users start ditching online videos if they're not loading properly, according to a new study from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Akamai Technologies.

#7 - When you get an alert on your phone it controls/consumes you and you feel like you must automatically respond (even if it means stopping something extremely important) or all will not be right in the world.

In their relentless quest to exhaust the galaxy of new marketing opportunities, "Angry Birds" has partnered with Lucasfilm for a "Star Wars"-themed version of the blockbuster mobile game. The new game launched Thursday on most major platforms: iOS, Android, Amazon Kindle Fire, Mac, PC, Windows Phone, and Windows 8.

When it comes to cell phone use—whether you’re in class, hanging out with a group of friends, or sitting next to grandma at the Thanksgiving dinner table—here are some outcomes we might strive for, along with some thoughts about how those outcomes might shape our actions.

If any of your passwords are on this list, then shame on you -- and go change them now. SplashData, which makes password management applications, has released its annual "Worst Passwords" list compiled from common passwords that are posted by hackers. The top three -- "password," "123456," and "12345678″ -- have not changed since last year. New ones include "jesus," "ninja," "mustang," "password1," and "welcome."