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I’m not going to tell you who I am until the end of this essay because I want to prove a point to you.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Report: Microsoft bans 1 million Xbox Live players
Players who were caught modifying their consoles to play pirated games have been booted from the popular service, InformationWeek says.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Tech Firms Make Bet With Ad Blitz
Technology companies are launching big advertising campaigns as they wager on a pickup in business spending and jockey to have their products stand apart in an environment where new customers are hard to find and competition is intensifying.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Facts, Errors, and the Kindle
The printed word has always had an Achilles heel: factual mistakes. Can the electronic reader help? Anthony Gottlieb investigates …
Monday, June 29, 2009
And Data for All: Why Obama’s Geeky New CIO Wants to Put All Gov’t Info Online
The Obama administration’s most radical idea may also be its geekiest: Make nearly every hidden government spreadsheet and buried statistic available online, all in one place. For anyone to see.
The Sour Wikipedian
Forget altruism. Misanthropy and egotism are the fuel of online social production. That’s the conclusion suggested by a new study of the character traits of the contributors to Wikipedia.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Thinking Beyond the Online Banner
Considering the magazine-heavy resume of The Daily Beast founder Tina Brown, it stands to reason the Web publisher would take her cues from that world.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Guardrails for the Internet: Preserving Creativity Online
In March, an unfinished copy of 20th Century Fox’s film X-Men Origins: Wolverine was stolen from a film lab and uploaded to the Internet, more than a month before its theatrical release.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Live-Blogging Amazon Earnings
Amazon.com’s first-quarter earnings grew 24 percent to $177 million, compared with the year-ago period, while net sales rose 18 percent to $4.89 billion.
In a statement, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said sales of its Kindle e-book reader “exceeded our most optimistic expectations.”
Friday, April 17, 2009
Who’s Really Going to Pay for Journalism Online?
Is all this talk about getting consumers to pay for the news they read online really a front for something else?
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
One Paper’s Online-Only Move Had Little Effect on Web Traffic, Study Says
Researchers from City University London have published a report showing one European newspaper’s steep drop in revenue as well as unsteady Web traffic after it became an online-only publication.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Social Media Networks Are Music’s Curse and Salvation
In the golden age of the record album, friends would gather around the hi-fi system to share the latest music, most of them not paying a cent.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Behind Sexting Survey, Debate Over How to Poll Teens
It seemed like more troubling evidence that kids these days engage in behavior they wouldn’t want to write home about. Researchers recently found that one in five teenagers have shared nude or seminude photos of themselves by cellphone or online. That statistic has become a fixture in articles about “sexting” and its social and legal implications. But that number may be inflated, because the same teenagers who have engaged in such behavior could be the ones most likely to say they have done so in an online poll.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
There’s Twitter the Company, and Twitter the Medium
Last year, Leo Laporte became a Twitter quitter. The host of one of Silicon Valley’s most popular podcasts was none too excited that of all the names in the world, the burgeoning message service had picked one that hit piercingly close to home. The online broadcasting network that Laporte owns and runs a short walk from his house in Petaluma is called TWiT.tv, after his company’s flagship show, “This Week in Tech.”
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