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Findings: Will You Be E-Mailing This Column? It’s Awesome
A University of Pennsylvania study found that readers of news in print and online had more exalted tastes than might be expected.
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Verizon Wireless Temporarily Blocks Some 4chan Traffic [Voices]
Verizon Wireless said Monday that its recent blocking of parts of 4chan was caused by “potentially disruptive” traffic from the popular site.
“Our network security system found traffic from some of the 4chan web sites that were potentially disruptive of the Verizon Wireless network and could affect our customers’ use of their services,” Jeffrey Nelson, a spokesman for the wireless carrier, said.
Iran’s resistance keeps up cat-and-mouse Web game
TEHRAN (Reuters) - With their paths through the Internet increasingly blocked by government filters, Nooshin and her fellow Iranian opposition-supporters say their information on planned protests now comes in emails.Apple Job Posting Suggests Video Recording Coming to Future iPad Models
A new job posting on Apple’s site suggests that the company is preparing to add still and video camera capabilities to its iPad tablet device in the future. The position is for a quality assurance engineer in the Media Systems division of Apple’s br…
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With Shake-Up, SAP Seeks Better Customer Relations
The chairman of SAP, the German software company, said a decision to raise maintenance fees was wrong and acknowledged that he had been partly responsible for the move.
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Current MacBook Pro Models Deleted From Best Buy’s Inventory System? Updates Imminent?
Yesterday, a poster in our forums claiming to be a Best Buy employee reported that the company’s internal inventory system had been updated to show that all MacBook Pro models had been “deleted”, preventing Best Buy stores from ordering any new units…
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Turning the Tables: Carol Bartz Grills BoomTown in the Yahoo Cafeteria (Over Easy With a Side of Disclosure) [BoomTown]
Today, BoomTown motored down to the Sunnyvale HQ of Yahoo, this time with a tiny bit of trepidation.
Ok, not that much, but some!
Why? Because CEO Carol Bartz had invited me to be the first in a new speaker series for employees at the Internet giant, called “Yahoo from the ‘Outside In,’” due to my intense–some might say obsessive–interest in the company.
The twist: Bartz herself conducted the interview with me in front of about 600 Yahoos gathered in its URL’s Cafe, the main cafeteria at the company.
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Data and Games Flow In, and Dollars Flow Out
The average American is expected to spend nearly $1,000 on services like cable, Internet and online video games.
Foursquare Signs a Deal With Zagat (Jenna Wortham/Bits)
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Foursquare Signs a Deal With Zagat — Foursquare, the location-based mobile application that is capturing the fancy of hip urbanites, is a fun bar game that lets users compete for points and badges when they go out at night. But recently the service has been branching out beyond its bar-hopping origins.
Adobe: Flash for Mac is Getting Better — Really! [Digital Daily]
Apple’s refusal to support Flash on the iPhone, and soon the iPad as well, might not be a death knell for Flash, but it will surely hasten its decline if Adobe’s not careful.
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Available Soon at a Barnes & Noble Near You: The Nook
Want to do more than look at a Nook? Starting Wednesday, Barnes & Noble will finally have its e-book reader available for sale in its bookstores.
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10th Person in Galleon Insider Case Pleads Guilty
A former executive of Intel became the 10th person to plead guilty in the Galleon Group insider trading case after admitting in court on Monday afternoon that he had passed confidential corporate information to Galleon’s founder, Raj Rajaratnam.
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Publishers Win a Bout in E-Book Price Fight
Publishers have managed to take some control — at least temporarily — of how much consumers pay for their content.
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Barnes & Noble’s Nook Finally Limps Into Stores. Too Late? [MediaMemo]
Barnes & Noble’s e-reader entry was supposed to have one big advantage over the Kindle–you could buy one at the retailer’s stores. But it has been a long time coming, and in the meantime, you may have heard about another compelling e-reader heading to market.
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Touchdown! Google’s Top Super Bowl Searches – PC World
![]() Christian Science Monitor | Touchdown! Google's Top Super Bowl Searches PC World Was your smartphone or notebook by your side during the Super Bowl? And were you tweeting your reactions to the TV ads, or trying to pull up Drew Brees' season completion percentage? Google on Monday posted its game-day search stats to show what ... Google Touts Search Engine in Super Bowl Commercial 'Super Bowl' Key Term In Poisoned Google Searches Google, Market Thyself |
Gullible Travels to the Bank [Voices]
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)
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SAP Ushers Out Chief as It Repairs Customer Relations
SAP, the German software maker, said Monday that it would focus on restoring its damaged customer relationships after a surprise management shake-up that cost the chief executive his job.
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Electronic Arts Shrinks Loss, but Shares Fall on Forecast
The publisher released its results, which analysts had expected to disappoint, after the regular market session ended.




