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
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
You’re probably paying something like $60 a month for high-speed Internet. I’m paying $5 a month, and my connection is 1,000 times faster. Your iPad can’t play Flash videos on the Web. Mine can. Your copy of Windows needs constant updating and patching and protection against viruses and spyware. Mine is always clean and always
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Published: Feb 21, 2012
Just as New Yorkers have grown used to blaring televisions in the back of taxis, the Taxi and Limousine Commission is considering another electronic option: embedded tablet computers. The commission is weighing a proposal by Square, a mobile payment company based in San Francisco, to replace Taxi TVs in 50 cabs with similarly shaped iPads or other
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Published: Feb 21, 2012
PRINCETON, N.J. — As a serial snack-food entrepreneur, Warren Wilson is no stranger to the challenges of running a business. In the early days of his first enterprise, selling funnel cakes at fairs, there was the time when, tired of losing money on inclement days, he bought weather insurance — and proceeded to lose even more money than
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Published: Feb 21, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO — Sgt. Brandon Davis vividly recalled the moment before he killed Eric Wayne Berry, but it was not the way it really happened. “I told him to drop his weapon, twice,” the police officer then in Fort Smith, Ark., said. But after repeated viewings of a video of the shooting, captured by a minicamera he was wearing, he
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Published: Feb 20, 2012
PARIS — In the early 1900s, a course of study at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine might have meant traveling to a hut in Italy for several months to study the causes of malaria. Or it might have included sailing to the West Indies to help a team of researchers investigate something called filariasis, a pathogen that seemed
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Published: Feb 19, 2012
In the embryonic, ever evolving era of social media — when milestones come by the day, if not by the second — June 8, 2010, has secured a rightful place in history. That was the day Wael Ghonim, a 29-year-old Google marketing executive, was browsing Facebook in his home in Dubai and found a startling image: a photograph of a
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Published: Feb 19, 2012
WEDGED between a strip joint and a neon-fringed brasserie, the entrance to 723 Seventh Avenue does not demand attention. For a jazz drummer, however, it may as well be the gateway to Narnia. A three-floor elevator ride above the dissonant grind of the theater district, Steve Maxwell Vintage and Custom Drums sits as calm and orderly as a library.
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Published: Feb 19, 2012
THE audience crowding into a recent Manhattan preview of the war-on-terror movie “Act of Valor” might have been described as ecumenical. Police officers. Firefighters. Sanitation workers. Army. Air Force. And the Navy, home of the Sea, Air and Land Teams known as the SEALs, the “silent warriors” who engage in hostage rescue,
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