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This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. There’s no doubt that organization improves your efficiency and business prospects. If you’re disorganized, you’re bound to lose paperwork, miss appointments, and just waste time; that’s why having a smart calendar program is essential. Consistently adding your appointments and events lessens the burden on you to remember everything you need to accomplish in the day. What program should you use though? While picking the right calendar boils down to personal preference and comfort, Google Calendar (GCal for short) should be strongly considered. Features such as Quick Add make it very easy to update with appointments, while its reminder …

Forget those “sporting” Halls of Fame — the real HOF is right here. Since 2003, the Robot Hall of Fame has been honoring robots and creators at an exhibit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and now we’re seeing the latest handful of noteworthy creatures take their rightful place in history. For those unaware, the Robot HOF is maintained by Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Science Center, and an international jury of researchers, writers, and designers has just selected five new bots to join the cast: Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity , the T-800 Terminator (yes, that Terminator ), the Da Vinci surgical system , iRobot’s Roomba and ‘Huey, Dewey, …

Nokia is planning an app store that could explode your head out of your ears and make your bladder explode in delight. Called the Ovi Store, this amazing app store will have 20,000 apps on launch, enough for all the men, women, and children in Scranton, Pennsylvania to enjoy an app a day for fifteen years. I’m not quite sure why Forbes sees the Ovi Store as the second coming of the Jesusphone but I’ll accept that 20K apps out of the box is pretty good. However, there have been Symbian apps for almost a decade now, which mind of makes the claim of the biggest app store on launch disingenuous. Interestingly, there will also be web video included in the 20K number, which means a bunch …

Two men from Pennsylvania sent 217,000 SMS during March 2009 in an attempt to break the previous record. We’re still waiting to hear from the Guinness book of world record about the certification, but what’s for sure is that one of them has received a bill of $26000 from T-Mobile, even though he had an “unlimited” text plan. T-Mobile is now investigating what happened. Hopefully, T-Mobile’s definition of “unlimited” isn’t the same than some broadband companies… Permalink: Men Send 217,000 SMS To Break Record, Get a $26,000 Bill from Ubergizmo | Cheap | Hot: Apple’s Netbook | Hot (FR): Test du Palm Pre