Published: Jan 08, 2012
HOW do you create public-service software? Run a contest. In recent years, city governments have increasingly used that model to spur software developers to build apps they do not have the budget or brainpower to create themselves. Public agencies put data online and offer cash prizes. Developers write code. The resulting apps help guide residents
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Published: Dec 25, 2011
The Ivy League, which is experiencing an athletic revival with several teams ranked nationally, is a doggedly atypical N.C.A.A. Division I sports conference. For starters, the eight members are virtual heretics in the landscape of American big-time college sports for fielding about 280 teams in 35 sports without athletic scholarships. The league
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Published: Dec 04, 2011
FOR the second year in a row, the Monday after Thanksgiving -- so-called Cyber Monday, when online retailers offer discounts to lure holiday shoppers -- was the biggest sales day of the year, totaling some $1.25 billion and overwhelming the sales figures racked up by brick-and-mortar stores three days before, on Black Friday, the former perennial
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Published: Dec 04, 2011
FOR the second year in a row, the Monday after Thanksgiving -- so-called Cyber Monday, when online retailers offer discounts to lure holiday shoppers -- was the biggest online sales day of the year, totaling some $1.25 billion and overwhelming the sales figures racked up by brick-and-mortar stores three days before, on Black Friday, the former
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Published: Nov 06, 2011
International COLOMBIAN REBELS A DANGER DESPITE LEADER'S DEATH The killing of the top commander of Colombia's largest guerrilla group dealt what might be the most severe blow yet to the four-decade-old insurgency, but security experts said that the rebels still had the ability to regroup and carry on the fight. Elite Colombian forces had been
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Published: Sep 13, 2011
Washington IN November, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could redefine the scope of privacy in an age of increasingly ubiquitous surveillance technologies like GPS devices and face-recognition software. The case, United States v. Jones, concerns a GPS device that the police, without a valid warrant, placed on the car of a
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Published: Sep 13, 2011
Washington IN November, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could redefine the scope of privacy in an age of increasingly ubiquitous surveillance technologies like GPS devices and face-recognition software. The case, United States v. Jones, concerns a GPS device that the police, without a valid warrant, placed on the car of a
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Published: Aug 21, 2011
ONE carmaker after another is proposing an answer to a question: how do you show off lavish wheels without looking like, well, a show-off? For many middle-aged buyers, crisis-averting red sports cars are out. Instead, the runaway trend is the ''four-door coupe,'' a description that seemed to be less of an oxymoron after the success of the 2005
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Published: May 01, 2011
LIKE a lot of other college seniors, Alexandra Leumer got her introduction to the heady and hazardous world of law school scholarships in the form of a letter bearing very good news. The Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco had admitted her, the letter stated, and it had awarded her a merit scholarship of $30,000 a year -- enough
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Published: Feb 24, 2011
It's an old pattern by now. Phase 1: Apple introduces some new gadget. The bloggers and the industry tell us why it'll fail. Phase 2: It goes on sale. The public goes nuts for it. Phase 3: Every company and its brother gets to work on a copycat. It happened with the iMac and the iPhone. Now the iPad is entering Phase 3. Apple sold 15 million iPads
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