Published: Feb 23, 2012
BRUSSELS — Microsoft filed a complaint Wednesday with European Union antitrust authorities accusing Google and Motorola Mobility, a smartphone company the Internet search giant plans to buy, of charging too much for use of its patents, marking a new stage in a long-running feud between Microsoft and Google. “We have taken this step
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Published: Feb 23, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO — It wasn’t so long ago that legions of people began walking the streets, talking to themselves. On closer inspection, many of them turned out to be wearing tiny earpieces that connected wirelessly to their smartphones. What’s next? Perhaps throngs of people in thick-framed sunglasses lurching down the streets,
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Published: Feb 23, 2012
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Wednesday outlined a set of online privacy principles that officials said would help consumers control the use of their personal data gleaned from Internet searches. The framework for a new privacy code moves electronic commerce closer to a one-click, one-touch process by which users can tell Internet
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Published: Feb 23, 2012
IN THE NUBA MOUNTAINS, Sudan We heard the whine of a bomber overhead, and the families I was interviewing suddenly scrambled to their feet. Like starving people everywhere, they had seemed listless, their bodies conserving every ounce of energy to stay alive. “We’ve had nothing to eat but leaves from trees,” one young mother,
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Published: Feb 23, 2012
Not long ago, a ring tone was the only thing that people bothered to buy for their phone, and some users spent big money on their collections of jangly alerts. Now you can download one app for roughly the same price of one of those old ring tones, and turn your favorite songs into sweet-sounding tones. With a little work, or, for Apple users, more
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Published: Feb 23, 2012
WASHINGTON — Patricia O’Brien had five novels to her name when her agent, Esther Newberg, set out last year to shop her sixth one, a work of historical fiction called “The Dressmaker.” A cascade of painful rejections began. Ms. O’Brien’s longtime editor at Simon & Schuster passed on it, saying that her previous
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Published: Feb 22, 2012
I REMEMBER the moment I realized that I might have to cave in and buy a granny cart. It was during my weekly trip to Sahadi’s Middle Eastern market in Brooklyn Heights. I went in for fresh hummus and came out with that, as well as spinach pies, pita, a pound of salted cashews, a jar of Nutella, three kinds of cheese, a container of big, juicy
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Published: Feb 22, 2012
WASHINGTON — President Obama will ask Congress to scrub the corporate tax code of dozens of loopholes and subsidies to reduce the top rate to 28 percent, down from 35 percent, while giving preferences to manufacturers that would set their maximum effective rate at 25 percent, a senior administration official said on Tuesday. Mr. Obama also
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Published: Feb 22, 2012
OTTAWA — Research in Motion , the company that introduced wireless e-mail to the world, on Tuesday finally brought e-mail to its tablet computer, the BlackBerry PlayBook . The e-mail application is one of several additions to the second version of the PlayBook’s operating system, which became available as a no-cost download early
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Published: Feb 21, 2012
Tim Allen joined the Boston office of SapientNitro, part of Sapient, in a new post, creative director for experience design. He had been a creative director at R/GA, New York, part of the Interpublic Group of Companies. Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies, McLean, Va., was renamed AHAA: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing as it expands its
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