Archive for May, 2008

iPhone’s Rivals Just Don’t Stack Up

May 20th, 2008 at 12:02pm Under Technology

It has been nearly a year since Apple launched the elegant and easy-to-use iPhone. Since then, our perceptions on how we can use a mobile phone have changed. However, the essential lesson of the iPhone has yet to be learned: The magic is in the simplicity of using Apple’s software. That became abundantly clear as I wrestled with two new touch-based phones.

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Cartfly: Giving E-Commerce Widgets a Social Spin

May 20th, 2008 at 12:02pm Under Technology

When an e-commerce startup talks about upending the business model on which Amazon and eBay and other e-tail giants have built billion-dollar businesses, it’s clear it doesn’t lack for ambition. Still, the founders of Cartfly believe the new face of the Web will eventually create a new way to sell and buy goods online, one as broadly distributed and spread out as social networking itself.

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The H-1B Visa Dilemma, Part 2: What to Do?

May 20th, 2008 at 12:02pm Under Technology

Part 1 of this two-part series enumerates the ways in which the guest-worker visa program fails to meet the needs of American workers and the high-tech industry. Part 2 digs further into the arguments for and against the H-1B visa program, as well as the trends and motivations underlying them.

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iPhone’s Rivals Just Don’t Stack Up

May 20th, 2008 at 12:02pm Under Software

It has been nearly a year since Apple launched the elegant and easy-to-use iPhone. Since then, our perceptions on how we can use a mobile phone have changed. However, the essential lesson of the iPhone has yet to be learned: The magic is in the simplicity of using Apple’s software. That became abundantly clear as I wrestled with two new touch-based phones.

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Science, Commerce and Wikipedia: Who Draws the Lines?

May 20th, 2008 at 12:02pm Under Software

Of all the Web sites in all the days of Webdom, no single site has ever touched a collective nerve in the same way that Wikipedia has. This month’s column is about two Wikipedia stories that illustrate the dynamics of how the mere association of the site in a particular context can set off a curious chain of events.

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Napster rolls out MP3 store in challenge to iTunes

May 20th, 2008 at 12:02pm Under Internet

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Napster Inc., the digital music service, on Tuesday opened the world’s biggest MP3 download store with more than 6 million songs in a direct challenge to Apple Inc’s iTunes store.

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Iraqi security forces begin crackdown on Sadr City

May 20th, 2008 at 12:02pm Under Top News

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L.A. city attorney presses board on gay marriage ceremonies

May 20th, 2008 at 12:02pm Under Top News

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Overcrowding in California prisons could be reduced without early release of criminals

May 20th, 2008 at 12:02pm Under Top News

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A shadow is cast on a hopeful scene

May 20th, 2008 at 12:02pm Under Top News

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