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by Kevi J. Delaney, Wall Street Journal
For children raised on the web browser, a new computer proved to be less of a hit than one parent expected.
by David Carr, New York Times
According to Mr. Shirky, consumers expect exactly what they want, when and how they want it. Music sellers, networks and movie studios are adjusting to a new paradigm where the customer is not only always right, but expects to be able to exercise that judgment with a flick of a finger.
by Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica
by Verne Kopytoff, San Francisco Chronicle
by John Brandon, PC Advisor
How to fix UMPCs, e-books, web 2.0 and more.
by John Borland, MIT Technology Review
by Brian Stelter, New York Times
It is not news that young politically minded viewers are turning to alternative sources like YouTube, Facebooko and late-night comedy shows like "The Daily Show." But that is only the beginning of how they process information.
by Brad Wardell, Opinionated Techie
Blaming piracy is easy. But it hides other underlying causes.
by Charles Cooper, CNET News.com
by Michael Agger, Slate
Is a new site the future of television?
by Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica
by Paul Thomasch, Reuters
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by Bruce Schneier
If more people had a security mindset, services that compromise privacy wouldn't have such a sizable market share — and Facebook would be totally different.
by Linda Rosencrance, Computerworld
Microsoft will most likely increase its initial $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, according to a Citigroup Investment Research analyst.
by Steve Cooper, Entrepreneur.com
The new technology of smartphones offers huge potential for entrepreneurs.
by Charles Cooper, CNET News.com
On the eve of this country's presidential election, here's a question I'd like to pose to the remaining three candidates: what would you do if other governments begin snubbing U.S. companies because of nationalistic reaons? In particular, one big software vendor comes to mind.
by Anne Broache, CNET News.com
by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch
The long term answer is that someone needs to create a new technology that allows us to enjoy our life but not miss important messages. If I knew what that solution was, I'd quit this blog and go do it.
by Gizmodo
Are you buying a crippled license to intellectual property when you download, or are you buying an honest-to-God book?
by David Sarno, Los Angeles Times
by Steve Lohr, New York Times
by Ian Urbina, New York Times
by David Pogue, New York Times
The lesson is one that the electronics industry seems to miss over and over again: that creeping feature-itis often impairs your product instead of improving it.
by The Economist
Social networking will become a ubiquitous feature of online life. That does not mean it is a business.
by The Economist
History suggests that open standards will once again trump "walled gardens" on the internet.
by Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com
by Steven Frank
My current hypothesis is that there are at least three positions of prominence in each segment — three ways to be number one, if you will: The First One, The Free One, and The Good One.
by Ingrid Lunden, Financial Times
by Ephraim Schwartz, InfoWorld
by Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com
by Mark Pilgrim, Dive Into Mark
by Sarah Perez, ReadWriteWeb
Succeses like those of the Harry Potter books show that even now, kids will read print media if it's good enough and captures their interest. And in the meantime, whether they read online or off, isn't it just good enough that they are, in fact, reading?
by Joel Spolsky, Joel On Software
DOCTYPE is a myth.
by Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC News
The creator of the web has said consumers need to be protected against systems which can track their activity on the internet.
by Harlan Coben, New York Times
Today's overprotective parents fight their kids' battles on the playground, berate coaches about playing time and fill otu college application s— yet when it comes to chatting with pedophiles or watching beheadings or gambling their entire life savings, then...then their children deserve independence?
by Elinor Mills, CNET News.com
by Steve Lohr, New York Times
by Steve Rubel, Micro Persuasion
by Don Reisinger, CNET News.com
Linux will never be a mass-market product, so why push it?
by Kate Greene, MIT Technology Review
Software being developed at Intel makes it easy for people with no programming experience to combine data from different web pages.
by Dawn Kawamoto, CNET News.com
With the Google-DoubleClick merger wrapped up Tuesday, Yahoo may face even greater pressure to find itself a buyout partner, according to Wall Street analysts and investors.
by Larry Dignan, ZDNet.com
by Om Malik, GigaOM
by Larry Hardesty, MIT Technology Review
Recent FCC hearings pitted network operators and content distributors against each other.But if the two can find a way to collaborate, the internet will work better for everybody.
by Mikael Ricknas, IDG News Service
As mobile broadband tkaes off, Wi-Fi hotspots will become as irrelevant as telephone booths, Ericsson chief marketing officer Johan Bergendahl said Monday.
by Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times
by Brian Stelter, New York Times
by Bill Thompson, BBC News
by Louise Story, New York Times
by Terry Heaton
While Newsweek uses the term "revival" to describe what they hope to see happening, I think "nostalgia" is a more accurate term.
by Tony Dokoupil, Newsweek
The individual user has been king on the internet, but the pendulum seems to be swinging back toward edited information vetted by professionals.
by The Economist
Programmers are using a variety of software tools to help them produce better code and keep bugs at bay.
by The Economist
The popular online encyclopedia, written by volunteer contributors, has unlimited space. So does it matter if it includes trivia?
by John Brandon, Computerworld
by Anita Hamilton, Time
by James Fallows, The Atlantic
China's Great Firewall is crude, slapdash, and surprisingly easy to breach. Here's why it's so effective anyway.
by Adam Liptak, New York Times
by Jonah Lehrer, Seed
Can a thinking, remembering, decision-making, biologically accurate brain be built from a supercomputer?
by Nate Anderson, Ars Technica
Book lovers have a message for e-book makers: you can have my paperback when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
by Ina Fried, CNET News.com
Aiming to demonstrate that its commitment to interoperability goes beyond fancy statements, Microsoft said Monday that it is shifting its plans for the next version of Internet Explorer to make the program more friendly to web standards.
by Claudine Ryan, ABC Science
by Bob Tedeschi, New York Times
by Caroline McCarthy, CNET News.com
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