Information Technology
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A Death Valley drive with the click of a mouseJul 28, 2012 1:34 pm - FRESNO, Calif. — Imagine being the only driver on a two-lane asphalt highway as the stark desolation of Death Valley National park passes on each side and the crystal bl...
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Did the government really invent the Internet?Jul 28, 2012 8:07 am - Earlier this month, President Obama argued that wealthy business people owe some of their success to the government’s investment in education and basic infrastructure. H...
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Analysis: Twitter, ads clashJul 28, 2012 8:03 am - I think the question of whether Twitter is a “media” company or a “technology” company is ill-conceived. The better dividing line is that there are some companies whose ...
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Mac’s Mountain Lion well worth $20 upgradeJul 28, 2012 7:54 am - NEW YORK — I didn’t need to spend a lot of time with the new Mac operating system to see that phones and tablet computers have won out over personal computers at Apple. ...
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Yahoo CEO Mayer’s pay package worth more than $59MJul 28, 2012 7:52 am - NEW YORK — Yahoo is giving its new chief executive Marissa Mayer a compensation package worth more than $59 million over the next several years. Yahoo Inc. said in a reg...
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New York Times scraps newspaper app for BlackBerry phonesJul 28, 2012 7:39 am - The New York Times dropped its downloadable application for BlackBerry users, dealing a setback to Research In Motion Ltd. as it races to introduce a new version of the ...
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Cell companies get millions for giving cops dataJul 28, 2012 7:26 am - The nation’s wireless carriers spend a surprising amount of time and energy sharing their customers’ private data with police and the FBI. Those companies fielded upwar...
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YouTube wants commenters to use real namesJul 28, 2012 7:11 am - In an attempt to clean up its notorious comments section, YouTube is encouraging users to give up the tool that most enables online abuse — their anonymity. Commenting o...
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Skype quiet on whether if can eavesdrop on your conversationsJul 28, 2012 7:10 am - New surveillance laws being proposed in countries from the United States to Australia would force makers of online chat software to build in backdoors for wiretapping. F...
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Move over Prius, it’s Tesla timeJul 28, 2012 5:05 am - NEW YORK — Gliding up Manhattan’s West Side Highway in a Tesla Model S, I change lanes and see the traffic before me part as though for Moses. I stab the gas pedal — er,...