'New York Times' Unveils Metered Online Paywall
All Things Considered - By David Folkenflik - Mar. 18 (News Report) - The Times is unveiling a metered system under which the paper's most loyal readers would pay for access to the website, though most...
View ArticleUnorthodox links to the internet: Signalling dissent
Economist - Mar. 19 (News) - With a tin can, some copper wire and a few dollars’ worth of nuts, bolts and other hardware, a do-it-yourselfer can build a makeshift directional antenna. A mobile phone,...
View ArticleMoney Rushes Into Social Start-Ups
Wall Street Journal - By Geoffrey A. Fowler - Mar. 25 (News) - As Wall Street and other investors clamor for a piece of social-networking giant Facebook Inc., Silicon Valley venture capitalists are...
View ArticleWhere even cellphones aren't safe
Los Angeles Times - Apr. 10 (News Report) - Mohammed Maskati's cellphone was his lifeline to fellow human rights activists in strife-torn Bahrain. So when his line went dead in mid-March, he checked...
View ArticleLawmakers ask Steve Jobs to explain iPhone tracking
CBS News - By Stephanie Condon - Apr. 21 (News) - In the wake of a recent discovery regarding data collection on iPhones, some Democratic lawmakers are questioning whether Apple has failed to protect...
View ArticleDeath of Osama bin Laden: Phone call pointed U.S. to compound --€” and to...
Washington Post - By Bob Woodward - May. 06 (News Report) - It seemed an innocuous, catch-up phone call. Last year Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, the pseudonym for a Pakistani known to U.S. intelligence as the...
View ArticleGoogle's Eric Schmidt: Smartphones 'Remember Everything'
Huffington Post - By Catharine Smith - May. 15 (Interview) - Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt sat down on Sunday with CNN's Fareed Zakaria for a segment on "Fareed Zakaria GPS" to talk...
View ArticlePositive Disruption
New York Times - By Roger Cohen - Jun. 23 (Opinion) - Even in the men’s room at Google’s sprawling New York offices there’s no respite from the cascade of new ideas feeding the behemoth. Rather than...
View ArticleTelcos could be the key to Twitter’s revenue model
GigaOM - By Sam Ramji - Jun. 26 (Interview) - At WWDC this year Apple and Twitter announced a new partnership to bring Twitter to iOS devices. While this is impressive, the total number of new iOS...
View ArticleTech Investors Feel an Aura of Hope, a Touch of Dread
New York Times - By Claire Cain Miller - Jun. 28 (News) - Color, meanwhile, spent $350,000 to buy the Web address color.com, and an additional $75,000 to buy colour.com. It rents a cavernous office in...
View ArticleJudges in US, Canada approve Nortel patents sale
Business Week - By Randall Chase - Jul. 11 (News) - U.S. and Canadian judges on Monday approved a $4.5 billion cash bid from a consortium that includes smartphone makers Apple and Research In Motion...
View ArticleHacking Testimony Is Disputed
Wall Street Journal - By Cassell Bryan Low, Paul Sonne, Steve Stecklow - Jul. 22 (News Report) - Two former executives broke ranks with News Corp. for the first time on Thursday over whether James...
View ArticleWhy Google had to have Motorola Mobility
The Guardian - By Dan Gillmor - Aug. 17 (Opinion) - The acquisition has provoked comment about defensive buying of patents, but Google surely has more ambition than that For several years now, Google...
View ArticleWith iTunes In The Cloud, Apple Under-Promises And Over-Delivers
TechCrunch - By MG Siegler - Aug. 30 (Opinion) - With iTunes In The Cloud, Apple Under-Promises And Over-DeliversNewsTrust Rating: 1.4 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It...
View ArticleJustice Department Sues to Block AT&T's Takeover of T-Mobile
Wall Street Journal - By Thomas Catan, Brent Kendall - Aug. 31 (News Report) - The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday sued to block AT&T Inc.'s proposed $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA,...
View ArticleFour lessons from Flipboard’s reinvention for the iPhone
Poynter Institute - By Jeff Sonderman - Dec. 07 (News Analysis) - The most popular news aggregation app for the iPad launches a new iPhone version Wednesday. Flipboard’s redesign for the smaller screen...
View ArticleHow will technology influence the news in 2012?
The Guardian - By Dan Gillmor - Dec. 29 (Opinion) - Predicting the next year's news is a fool's errand, but looking at technological trends could give us a hint At the beginning of 2011, aging...
View ArticleThe State of the News Media 2012
Pew Research - By Amy Mitchell, Tom Rosenstiel - Mar. 25 (Special Report) - In 2011, the digital revolution entered a new era. The age of mobile, in which people are connected to the web wherever they...
View ArticleMurdoch's Scandal
Frontline - By Lowell Bergman - Mar. 27 (News) - For decades, private investigator Daniel Hanks worked both sides of the law. “I was a small-town lawyer who suddenly ended up taking on one of the...
View ArticleGoogle's Project Glass: You ain't seen nothin' yet
CNET News - By Martin LaMonica - Apr. 06 (News Report) - The augmented-reality Project Glass provides a peek into Google's ambitions with artificial intelligence and how AI software could further shake...
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