Internet
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The thrilling (and welcome?) demise of GrouponAug 19, 2012 7:00 am - A year ago, Rakesh Agrawal, an analyst and journalist who spent many years working in the local advertising business, wrote a series of devastating articles about Groupo...
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United Airlines “loses” 10-year-old girl, enters social media hellAug 18, 2012 7:07 am - As the Olympics wrapped up Sunday, United Airlines’ public relations team stood ready to capitalize on the good feelings with some nifty promotions on Facebook and Twitt...
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YouTube’s ‘Lauren’ series focuses on military sexual assaultAug 13, 2012 7:48 am - SAN DIEGO — The enormous obstacles and emotional torment that a female soldier confronts in reporting a sexual assault in the military are the focus of the three-part We...
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Free Wi-Fi catches on with NYC’s subway ridersAug 11, 2012 7:47 am - NEW YORK — Emily Langmead was hesitant when she first heard of free Wi-Fi in the subway. Like many New Yorkers, she wondered what the catch was. But now, she says, she u...
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Court mulls free speech implications of clicking ‘Like’Aug 11, 2012 7:41 am - Daniel Ray Carter Jr. logged on to Facebook and did what millions do each day: He “liked” a page by clicking the site’s thumbs up icon. The problem was that the page was...
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On YouTube channels, comedians shift the punchlineAug 11, 2012 7:39 am - NEW YORK — On the debut episode of “Smart Girls at the Party,” Amy Poehler sits in a dark studio and solemnly introduces her first guest as a “singer, actor, dancer, mus...
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China in the middle of a microblog crazeAug 04, 2012 7:37 am - BEIJING — China’s Twitter was raucous Thursday with horn-tooting over Beijing’s gold rush at the London Olympics, a digital reflection of the nation’s exuberant mood — e...
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Review: NBC offers plenty of live Olympics onlineAug 04, 2012 7:32 am - NEW YORK — Soccer and balance beam gymnastics on the desktop. Swimming and badminton on the laptop. Boxing on the iPhone. Gymnasts’ floor exercises on the iPad. Vault ro...
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A new outlook on email and reason to ditch GmailAug 04, 2012 7:26 am - Two years ago, Microsoft attempted to transform Hotmail, its ancient Web mail service, into a program fit for modern times. The company put a great deal of thought into ...
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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...