Google Brings High-Speed Broadband Network to Kansas.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) – After seeing Facebook pleas and flash mobs, and even cities temporarily renaming themselves “Google,” the search engine giant said Wednesday it has chosen Kansas City, Kan., as the first place that will get its new ultra-fast broadband network. Google announced that the city would be the inaugural site for its … Read more
A Girl’s Nude Photo, and Altered Lives
NY TIMES By JAN HOFFMAN LACEY, Wash. — One day last winter Margarite posed naked before her bathroom mirror, held up her cellphone and took a picture. Then she sent the full-length frontal photo to Isaiah, her new boyfriend. Both were in eighth grade. They broke up soon after. A few weeks later, Isaiah forwarded … Read more
Is It a New Tech Bubble? Let’s See if It Pops
NY TIMES By EVELYN M. RUSLI and VERNE G. KOPYTOFF Banks pouring money into technology funds, wealthy clients and institutions clamoring to get pieces of start-ups, expectations of stock market debuts building — as Wall Street’s machinery kicks into second gear, some investors with memories of the Internet bust a decade earlier are wondering whether … Read more
Ethical Quandary for Social Sites
NY TIMES By JENNIFER PRESTON Two days after using Flickr to display photos of police officers from Egypt’s feared state security force, Hossam el-Hamalawy watched in disbelief as they vanished, one by one, from the popular social networking site, which he had been using since 2008. “I thought I was being hacked,” said Mr. el-Hamalawy, … Read more
How Sports May Focus the Brain
NY TIMES By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Thomas Barwick/Getty Images Who can cross a busy road better, a varsity wrestler or a psychology major? That question, which seems to beg for a punch line, actually provided the motivation for an unusual and rather beguiling new experiment in which student athletes were pitted against regular collegians in a … Read more
Spoiled by the All-in-One Gadget
NY TIMES By SAM GROBART Last Updated: 2:26 PM EDT AT&T’s announcement last Sunday that it plans to acquire T-Mobile was quickly analyzed to be bad news for consumers. If the merger is approved, rates are likely to go up, not just for T-Mobile customers, but for everyone, as there will then be only three … Read more
As Phones Become Wallets, Many Have Hands Out
NY Times By TARA SIEGEL BERNARD and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER The cellphone has been more than a cellphone for years, but soon it could take on an entirely new role — standing in for all of the credit and debit cards crammed into wallets. Instead of swiping a plastic card at the checkout counter, consumers … Read more
Firefox 4 Out-Downloads IE9 on First Day of Release
Barry Levine, newsfactor.com Barry Levine, newsfactor.com Wed Mar 23, 1:52 pm ET The numbers from the latest round of the browser wars are coming in. The Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox 4 has had nearly 5.5 million downloads in the 24 hours since its release on Tuesday. When it was released a few weeks ago, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 had about … Read more
GetJar Survey Shows Android Trumping The iPhone
Armando Rodriguez Armando Rodriguez Wed Mar 23, 2:00 pm ET App distribution giant GetJar has released results of a global survey on the insights and preferences of mobile phone users. The survey showed that 40 percent of respondents said that they would switch to Android the next time they bought a new phone. This is compared to the 16 … Read more
