Never before have so many people all of a sudden thought, “I wonder if Kansas City is a nice place to live?” That’s because Google recently announced the details behind Google Fiber, its incredibly fast new Internet service …
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Wait, Apparently the Government Did Create the Internet After All
Yesterday, I wrote about Gordon Crovitz’s bizarre contention, in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, that it’s an “urban legend” that the U.S. government created the Internet. (He says that Xerox’s PARC lab deserves the credit.) Other folks have been chiming in–including some who know a lot more about this stuff than I do.
Charles …
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Babson Professor: Apple’s Crazy, Bing-like Attempt to Force People Everywhere to Act like American Teenagers Will Fail
Marty Anderson is a senior lecturer at Babson College, the noted business school in Wellesley, Mass. He’s a self-professed Apple fan. But he’s not impressed by Mountain Lion, the OS X upgrade that hit the Mac App Store …
All Olympic Events Will Be Streamed Online – But There’s a Catch
All rounds of all 32 sports in the London 2012 Olympics, medal ceremonies included, will be streamed live at NBCOlympics.com, the website set up by NBC Universal, which has exclusive U.S. rights to broadcast the Games. There’s just one caveat, though.
via London 2012 Olympics: NBC Streaming All Events for Pay TV Subscribers | …
Follow TIME on Stamped
The Internet is filled with people telling you what they like: overflowing Pinterest pages, endless Yelp lists, Facebook profiles packed with “Likes.” Stamped is a little more discerning.
Users get a limited number of stamps, …
Why Everyone’s Holding Their Breath About Facebook Earnings
Facebook stumbled out of the block with its May IPO. Investors will be curious to see whether today’s earnings report can help the company’s stock rebound.
Facebook 2Q Earnings Report: A Guide for Curious Investors | Business …
Zynga Plunges 40% in Tech Bloodbath
As global economic conditions worsen, tech companies have little margin for error.
via Zynga Stock Crashes 40% After Loss, as Tech Bloodbath Worsens | Business | TIME.com.
5 Flaws Apple Still Hasn’t Fixed in OS X Mountain Lion
Apple’s newest OS X cat, Mountain Lion, is finally here, halo-dropped onto the Mac App Store at the last minute by a company that increasingly treats its products as if they were smartphones, teasing form and function but …
30 Days with Google’s Nexus 7 Tablet
I’d be lying if I said my decision to attend Google’s I/O conference last month had nothing to do with the tablet rumors. I’ve been waiting for a good, affordable 7-inch tablet ever since Samsung pioneered the concept with its …
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How Government Did (and Didn’t) Invent the Internet
Last night, I happened across an article by Slate technology scribe Farhad Manjoo. He was responding to an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal by the Journal’s former publisher Gordon Crovitz. And when Manjoo explained …
Blizzard Announces Release Date for Next ‘World of Warcraft’ Expansion
Your wait is almost over, World of Warcraft fans. Today Blizzard announced that its new expansion, Mists of Pandaria, will be released on September 25.
The game will be available in stores and for online download at the price …
Google Adds New 34-Button Scientific Calculator to Search Results
Hard as we might try to avoid it, we occasionally still have to do math. Unless you’re a high school student with a graphing calculator, that usually means firing up a simple calculator program on your computer, which wastes …