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Update: The Mystery of the Flying Laptop
Posted: April 6th, 2012, 12:59pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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In airports, laptop computers get special attention from the T.S.A. Similar devices don’t. The reasons are a mystery.
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For Multitaskers, Multiple Monitors Improve Office Efficiency
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 1:27am EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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In a new tactic for countering the data assault, offices are giving workers a second computer screen and sometimes a third.
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For Multitaskers, Multiple Monitors Improve Office Efficiency
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 1:27am EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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In a new tactic for countering the data assault, offices are giving workers a second computer screen and sometimes a third.
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Teenagers Sharing Passwords as Show of Affection
Posted: January 18th, 2012, 12:27pm EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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Young people are expressing their affection by swapping passwords to e-mail, Facebook and other accounts.
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As Doctors Use More Devices, Potential for Distraction Grows
Posted: December 15th, 2011, 10:50am EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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Some hospitals have begun limiting the use of computers, smartphones and other devices in critical settings.
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Federal Panel Urges Cellphone Ban for Drivers
Posted: December 13th, 2011, 10:40pm EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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The National Transportation Board said that states should ban all driver use of cellphones and other portable electronic devices, except in emergencies.
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Federal Panel Urges Cellphone Ban for Drivers
Posted: December 13th, 2011, 10:40pm EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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The National Transportation Board said that states should ban all driver use of cellphones and other portable electronic devices, except in emergencies.
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Full Tilt Poker Site Misused Players’ Money, U.S. Says
Posted: September 21st, 2011, 2:10am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Federal prosecutors who blocked three poker sites in April said Full Tilt Poker had been improperly paying out money from customer accounts to the company’s owners.
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Grading the Digital School: Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value
Posted: September 4th, 2011, 1:01pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Schools are embracing digital learning, but evidence is scarce that the expensive technology is improving educational outcomes.
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Grading the Digital School: Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value
Posted: September 4th, 2011, 12:20pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Schools are embracing digital learning, but evidence is scarce that the expensive technology is improving educational outcomes.
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Starved Budgets Inspire New Look at Web Gambling
Posted: August 14th, 2011, 2:23pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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States are looking to Internet gambling as part of the antidote to their budget woes, but could run into trouble with the Justice Department.
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Starved Budgets Inspire New Look at Web Gambling
Posted: August 14th, 2011, 2:23pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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States are looking to Internet gambling as part of the antidote to their budget woes, but could run into trouble with the Justice Department.
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In Online Games, a Path to Young Consumers
Posted: April 21st, 2011, 1:05pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Food marketers are pitching their products to children via Web sites that critics say blur the line between activities and advertising.
NYT > Health
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In Online Games, a Path to Young Consumers
Posted: April 21st, 2011, 1:05pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Food marketers are pitching their products to children via Web sites that critics say blur the line between activities and advertising.
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In Online Games, a Path to Young Consumers
Posted: April 21st, 2011, 1:05pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Food marketers are pitching their products to children via Web sites that critics say blur the line between activities and advertising.
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Bits: Do Nothing (Impossible?)
Posted: February 3rd, 2011, 11:57pm EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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Can you resist the lure of your computer? Would it help to turn off the instant messaging ping?
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Egypt Cuts Off Most Internet and Cell Service
Posted: January 28th, 2011, 10:10pm EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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Egypt has cut off nearly all Internet traffic into and out of the country and disrupted cellphone service as it struggles to contain protests.
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A Short-Circuit to Distracted Driving
Posted: January 21st, 2011, 12:26am EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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Cell carriers are exploring technology aimed at reducing distractions by temporarily interrupting service.
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Gadgetwise: The Flowering of the Mobile Phone
Posted: December 30th, 2010, 6:02am EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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A look at new and strange ways ways in which the voracious and multifaceted mobile phone is cannibalizing various other technologies.
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Service Members Face New Threat: Identity Theft
Posted: December 6th, 2010, 6:10pm EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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The Social Security numbers of military personnel are used for everything from health forms to gym memberships.
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Service Members Face New Threat: Identity Theft
Posted: December 6th, 2010, 6:10pm EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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The Social Security numbers of military personnel are used for everything from health forms to gym memberships.
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Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
Posted: November 22nd, 2010, 12:07pm EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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The constant stream of stimuli offered by new technology poses a profound new challenge to focusing and learning.
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Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
Posted: November 21st, 2010, 5:33pm EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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The constant stream of stimuli offered by new technology poses a profound new challenge to focusing and learning.
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Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
Posted: November 21st, 2010, 5:33pm EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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The constant stream of stimuli offered by new technology poses a profound new challenge to focusing and learning.
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Your Brain on Computers: Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 12:50am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Time without digital input can allow people to learn better or come up with new ideas.
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Your Brain on Computers: Studying the Brain Off the Grid, Professors Find Clarity
Posted: August 16th, 2010, 2:40am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Five scientists spent a week in the wilderness to understand how heavy use of technology changes how we think and behave.
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Your Brain on Computers: Studying the Brain Off the Grid, Professors Find Clarity
Posted: August 16th, 2010, 2:40am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Five scientists spent a week in the wilderness to understand how heavy use of technology changes how we think and behave.
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Your Brain on Computers: Studying the Brain Off the Grid, Professors Find Clarity
Posted: August 16th, 2010, 2:40am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Five neuroscientists spent a week hiking to understand how heavy use of technology changes how we think and behave.
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My Phone Is Shouting at Me
Posted: August 9th, 2010, 5:47pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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The Droid announces itself, prompting self-reflection
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Virtual Tiger Woods Takes a Tumble
Posted: July 19th, 2010, 3:35pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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First-month sales of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 were down 32 percent from the previous version of the game a year ago.
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Your Brain on Computers: Attached to Technology and Paying a Price
Posted: June 7th, 2010, 2:52am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Scientists say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information from e-mail and other interruptions.
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AT&T to Charge More to Heavy Users of Data
Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 1:00am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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AT&T will offer unlimited data plans to new smartphone customers, who will pay based on what they use.
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Activision Is Shaken by Departures
Posted: April 14th, 2010, 10:15pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been a huge boon to its publisher, Activision Blizzard. But the future of that franchise is looking less clear.
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Driven to Distraction: Digital Billboards, Diversions Drivers Can’t Escape
Posted: March 2nd, 2010, 12:11am EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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The effect of high-tech billboards on highway safety is being debated in state legislatures.
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Driven to Distraction: Digital Billboards, Diversions Drivers Can’t Escape
Posted: March 2nd, 2010, 12:11am EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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The effect of high-tech billboards on highway safety is being debated in state legislatures.
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Bills to Curb Distracted Driving Gain Momentum
Posted: January 2nd, 2010, 2:56am EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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A consensus is emerging among lawmakers for an outright ban on cellphone texting behind the wheel.
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Driven to Distraction: Promoting the Car Phone, Despite Risks
Posted: December 7th, 2009, 3:15pm EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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Industry pioneers have long been aware of the risks of multitasking behind the wheel, but still marketed cellphones to drivers.
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A Victim’s Daughter Takes the Cellphone Industry to Court
Posted: December 7th, 2009, 3:22am EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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A woman whose mother was killed when her car was hit by a driver talking on his cellphone is suing the providers of the phone and wireless service.
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Texting While Driving Banned for Federal Workers
Posted: October 1st, 2009, 3:29pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Federal employees will no longer be allowed to send text messages in government vehicles, or their own cars if they are using cellphones paid for by the government.
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Driven to Distraction: At 60 M.P.H., Office Work Is High Risk
Posted: October 1st, 2009, 2:21pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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For those who have turned their vehicles into wired offices, constant contact and work efficiency outweighs the risk of a wreck.
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Driven to Distraction: Truckers Insist on Keeping Computers in the Cab
Posted: September 28th, 2009, 4:34am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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The industry says computers that connect drivers to dispatchers can be used safely and should be exempt from legislation.
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Driven to Distraction: Driver Texting Now an Issue in the Back Seat
Posted: September 9th, 2009, 12:16pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Differences of opinion about distractions behind the wheel are creating disputes among family members and friends.
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Safety Group to Call for Ban on Texting While Driving
Posted: August 31st, 2009, 1:07am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Studies show that drivers who send text messages at highway speeds can travel more than the length of a football field without looking at the road.
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Driven to Distraction: Utah Gets Tough With Texting Drivers
Posted: August 29th, 2009, 2:35am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Under a new state law, texting motorists who cause traffic fatalities could be imprisoned for as long as 15 years and fined $10,000.
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Ban on Texting While Driving Sought
Posted: July 29th, 2009, 7:34pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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States would have two years to outlaw the sending of text and e-mail messages by motorists or start losing their federal highway funds.
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Driven to Distraction: U.S. Withheld Data on Risks of Distracted Driving
Posted: July 21st, 2009, 2:36am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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In 2003, researchers at a federal agency proposed a long-term study of 10,000 drivers to assess the safety risk posed by cellphone use behind the wheel.
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Drivers Dismiss Risks of Multitasking on the Road
Posted: July 18th, 2009, 1:28pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Extensive research shows the dangers of distracted driving. But drivers increasingly talk and text, and state legislators have done almost nothing about it.
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Last Man Standing
Posted: July 17th, 2009, 10:03pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Best Buy is focusing on fast-growing products like mobile phones and low-cost laptops and moving away from CDs and DVDs.
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Lights, Camera, Lots of Action. Forget the Script.
Posted: July 7th, 2009, 9:32pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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With pornographic movies being sold online in chunks, moviemakers are now even less interested in story lines.
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Providing Cellphones for the Poor
Posted: June 15th, 2009, 12:23am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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A federal program providing subsidized phone service now offers cellphones, showing how much society values them.
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Providing Cellphones for the Poor
Posted: June 15th, 2009, 12:23am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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A federal program providing subsidized phone service now offers cellphones, showing how much society values them.
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Web’s Poker Winners Face Delays in Collecting
Posted: June 10th, 2009, 12:48am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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About 27,000 players using offshore poker sites will not receive $33 million in winnings until problems with companies that process payments are solved.
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Motorola’s Loss Widens as Phone Sales Drop
Posted: April 30th, 2009, 12:17pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Motorola reported a widening loss on revenues that fell 28 percent in its first quarter.
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Verizon Said to Be in Talks for the iPhone
Posted: April 28th, 2009, 1:28am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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A version of the iPhone that would work on Verizon’s network could be available as soon as next year.
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Intel Says PC Sales Have Reached a Bottom and Forecasts Moderate Growth
Posted: April 15th, 2009, 11:33am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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The chipmaker said that first-quarter net income fell 55 percent to $647 million, or 11 cents a share, on revenue of $7.1 billion.
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Tech Recruiting Clashes With Immigration Rules
Posted: April 12th, 2009, 12:26am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Technology executives say restrictive visa and immigration limits have imperiled their ability to hire more of the world’s best engineers.
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Tech Recruiting Clashes With Immigration Rules
Posted: April 12th, 2009, 12:26am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Technology executives say restrictive visa and immigration limits have imperiled their ability to hire more of the world’s best engineers.
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3G Phones Exposing Networks’ Last-Gen Technology
Posted: March 14th, 2009, 1:42am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Industry analysts say the problems at mobile carriers are becoming more glaring as the growing popularity of so-called smartphones puts pressure on their networks.
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What Convergence? TV’s Hesitant March to the Net
Posted: February 16th, 2009, 1:45am EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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While there is movement by chip makers to spur a new generation of TVs with full browser capability, TV manufacturers simply do not seem to want it.
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Inauguration Crowd Will Test Cellphone Networks
Posted: January 19th, 2009, 2:15pm EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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The cellphone industry has a plea for the throngs descending on the nation’s capital for the presidential inauguration: go easy on the mobile communications.
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Palm Unveils iPhone Competitor, the Pre
Posted: January 9th, 2009, 2:08am EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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Palm says the device breaks new ground in the fiercely competitive smartphone market.
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2 Executives Leaving in Dell Restructuring
Posted: January 1st, 2009, 12:37am EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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The president of global operations and the chief marketing officer are leaving as the company reorganizes around customer categories rather than by region.
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Electronic Arts Forecasts Weaker Profit in 2009
Posted: December 10th, 2008, 1:07am EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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The video game publisher said it expected revenue and earnings to miss its outlook because of weaker-than-expected holiday sales.
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TV Sales Becoming Litmus Test for U.S. Economy
Posted: November 28th, 2008, 11:43pm EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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The television market offers a glimpse of the broader tensions between cautious consumers and desperate retailers.
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A Sea of Unwanted Imports
Posted: November 19th, 2008, 3:12am EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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Unwelcome by dealers and buyers, thousands of cars are being warehoused on crowded port property, creating a vivid picture of a paralyzed auto business.
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H.P. Expects Revenue and Profits Will Top Forecasts
Posted: November 19th, 2008, 1:09am EST by By MATT RICHTEL
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Hewlett-Packard’s comparatively optimistic forecast bucked the trend of gloomy predictions from other major tech companies.
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Spending on Gadgets Is Projected to Grow at a Slower Rate
Posted: October 20th, 2008, 2:10am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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The Consumer Electronics Association found a drop in the percentage of consumers expressing an intention to buy video games, cameras, music players and laptops.
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Industry Rethinks Moneymaking Software Practice
Posted: August 28th, 2008, 1:00am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Before they ship PCs to retailers like Best Buy, computer makers get paid hundreds of millions of dollars to load them up with lots of free software. For $30, Best Buy will get rid of it for you.
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Electronic Arts Withdraws Offer for Take-Two
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 11:46am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Electronic Arts said that it has withdrawn its $2 billion tender offer to purchase its smaller rival, ending its five-month long hostile takeover bid. Take-Two is asking Electronic Arts to reconsider.
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In Settlement, Nokia Will Pay Royalties to Qualcomm
Posted: July 23rd, 2008, 11:44pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Under the terms of the agreement, Nokia can use all of Qualcomm’s patents in its mobile phones and network equipment, and in return it agreed not to use its patents against Qualcomm.
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Bits: One Video Game Union Is Celebrated, While Another Struggles to Get to the Altar
Posted: July 8th, 2008, 8:28pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Activision shareholders approved the company’s merger with Vivendi’s Blizzard Entertainment, as Electronic Arts started federal antitrust review of its hostile offer for Take Two Interactive.
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Bits: A Cringing Quarter for Venture Capitalists
Posted: July 1st, 2008, 2:28am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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In the second quarter, 50 merger and acquisition deals of venture-backed companies were completed. That’s down from 70 in the first quarter.
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Bits: A Cringing Quarter for Venture Capitalists
Posted: July 1st, 2008, 2:28am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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In the second quarter, 50 merger and acquisition deals of venture-backed companies were completed. That’s down from 70 in the first quarter.
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Venture Investors Wrap Up an Unusually Bleak Quarter
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:43am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Not a single company backed by venture capitalists has gone public this quarter, a result of the weaknesses in the financial markets.
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What’s Obscene? Google Could Have an Answer
Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 10:23pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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The defense in an obscenity trial in Florida plans to use Google search data to demonstrate that that sexually explicit material does not violate community standards.
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What’s Obscene? Google Could Have an Answer
Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 10:23pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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The defense in an obscenity trial in Florida plans to use Google search data to demonstrate that that sexually explicit material does not violate community standards.
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H.P. to Reorganize Its Printing Division
Posted: June 18th, 2008, 10:03pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Hewlett-Packard said it would reorganize its printing division, the company’s crown jewel, to try to accelerate the growth of its corporate and consumer printing services businesses.
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Sales Double for Game Maker
Posted: June 6th, 2008, 2:31pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Take-Two Interactive Software, publisher of the Grand Theft Auto video game franchise, recorded sales of $540 million for its second quarter.
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Hewlett-Packard Is Facing Skepticism on E.D.S. Deal
Posted: May 14th, 2008, 1:14am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Hewlett-Packard proposes to spend $14 billion to acquire Electronic Data Systems, an underperforming technology services provider.
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Technology Group Plans Wireless Network
Posted: May 7th, 2008, 9:39pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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A consortium plans to build the first of a new generation of nationwide wireless data networks in a $14.5 billion deal.
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Technology Group Plans Wireless Network
Posted: May 7th, 2008, 9:39pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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A consortium plans to build the first of a new generation of nationwide wireless data networks in a $14.5 billion deal.
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The Road to a Jumbo Mortgage Was Supposed to Get Easier
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 1:41am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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The effort to make it easier to get loans over $417,000 has yielded frustration, with many saying the loans are not available or the rates are far higher than they expected. -
Frustrated Game Maker Extends Offer for a Rival
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 7:06pm EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Take-Two’s Managers Get a Raise
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 11:00am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop
Posted: April 6th, 2008, 8:57am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Some professional bloggers complain of the stressful demands of a constant flow of news and comment.
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In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop
Posted: April 6th, 2008, 8:57am EDT by By MATT RICHTEL
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Some professional bloggers complain of the stressful demands of a constant flow of news and comment.