Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Quality Reporting Doesn’t Come Cheap
The decline of newspapers is a tragedy for democracy. How can it be stopped?
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Google Stretches Its Search Box
In a nod toward usability, Google increased the size of its home page’s search box and typeface Wednesday, making it easier for users to see long queries.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Marines Ban Facebook and MySpace, Pentagon Considers It
The U.S. Marines Corps, citing security concerns, has banned Facebook, MySpace and Twitter on its network, and the Pentagon said it is reviewing social-networking sites as it considers setting broader policies on their use. The Marine ban formalizes an existing block on social-networking sites on its government computers, and it does not affect members’ personal use of the sites.
Monday, July 13, 2009
New Threat To The Valley: Toyota Might Close NUMMI
The carnage in the auto industry may be about to hit Silicon Valley.
Toyota is considering close NUMMI, a Fremont, California vehicle-assembly plant that it has been operating jointly with General Motors.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Personal Democracy Forum: Battle over Broadband
The Obama administration has called for a $7.1 billion upgrade of the nation’s broadband Internet system as part of the Recovery Act, but it will be a tall order for the FCC to create a plan that satisfies both telecom companies and broadband advocacy groups.
Remaking the NYSE’s Data Center
Speed is critical for the growing number of traders who rely on algorithms to detect market shifts. So NYSE Euronext is building two new data centers that the exchange hopes will allow it to process trades faster than its rivals.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Personal Democracy Forum: Seeking the Youth Vote
The historic election of President Barack Obama marked a high point for youth involvement in elections. Now, activists are trying to figure out how to bottle youthful Obamania and transport it to other elections.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Don’t Get All Huffy About the Huffington Post
As Mark Gimein noted last week in The Big Money, the media giants have put the Web’s journalistic “parasites”–blogs, aggregators, Google–on notice that they will no longer allow them to pinch their copy without reimbursement.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Techmeme Founder: WSJ, NYT Are Aggregators
Techmeme is one of the sites that Robert Thomson, managing editor of the The Wall Street Journal, presumably thinks is a “parasite” or “tech tapeworm in the intestines of the Internet.”
The Web site aggregates links to stories. Along with the links is a short description of the news. Thomson and others in the newspaper industry say it’s unfair and unlawful for Web sites to profit from their content without compensating them.
Friday, April 10, 2009
The Stream
“Controlling the stream” is not just one of the major life-challenges facing elderly gentlemen; it is the center of industrial competition on the realtime social network that we once termed “Web 2.0.”
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Amazon Learns It Isn’t Easy Being the Kindle’s Keeper
Amazon still hasn’t said how many of its Kindle e-book readers have sold. But here’s one true sign of the gadget’s growing popularity: People are protesting it on several fronts.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Recommended by One in Ten Doctors: The iPhone
When Apple first started promoting applications for the iPhone, CEO Steve Jobs touted physician reference guides and other medical programs as an important category of software for the device. At least a tenth of the doctors in the U.S. concur with that view.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Seismologist Forced to Remove Quake Warning From the Internet
After an earthquake in the Abruzzo region of Italy killed at least 100 people, a local scientist is demanding an apology from authorities and saying that he was forced to take his warnings off the Internet. A week ago, Gioacchino Giuliani, a seismologist at the nearby Gran Sasso National Laboratory, predicted that a large quake could occur soon after several small tremors. According to Reuters, his warning prompted vans with loudspeakers telling residents to leave their homes.
Friday, March 20, 2009
iPhone Is an Expensive Drug, Says Russian Mobile Chief
U.S. telecom executives are cautious about speaking their minds when it comes to tech heavyweights like Apple and Google, but not Mikhail Shamolin, president of MTS, Russia’s largest cellphone company.
In an interview with Wall Street Journal editorial staff, he said the negotiations to bring the iPhone to Russia last fall were like “the negotiations of a junkie and a narcotics salesman,” because of the pent-up demand for the device.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Chinese Action–the Virtual Kind–in U.S. Stocks
Sohu.com, one of China’s largest Internet companies, hopes U.S. investors like its hack-and-slash videogames enough to give it as much as $120 million.
The Beijing-based company filed this week for an initial public offering of American depositary shares for its online game subsidiary, Changyou.com, on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The company started its road show presentations for investors in Hong Kong Wednesday, and will issue the price of the deal in the coming week, said company executives.
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