Faster Forward Archive: The business we have chosen
Google Announces "Chrome" Operating System
Google calls the new Web-centric, laptop operating system it announced last night "Chrome OS," but the company could just as well have titled this software "Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's Revenge." Jackson, you may recall, presided over much of United States. v. Microsoft, the antitrust case in which Microsoft was found...
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July 8, 2009; 11:29 AM ET |
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Music-Industry Chatter Has Echoes For the News Business
SAN FRANCISCO -- I spent Monday talking shop with various tech types about the state of the music industry, but I gained a little insight about the newspaper business along the way. The occasion was a daylong conference on the intersection of technology and music, the SanFran MusicTech Summit, which...
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May 20, 2009; 4:15 PM ET |
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Is Mother's Day a Gadget-Procurement Event?
Being a tech columnist means never having to forget that Mother's Day is coming up -- publicists for tech companies won't let me. The first "mother's day tech gadgets" e-mail arrived back on March 10, and since then each week has brought a few more. The items being pitched are...
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May 7, 2009; 12:54 PM ET |
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Webby Awards Announced; Columnist's Ignorance Revealed
The 13th annual Webby Awards were announced this morning, spotlighting (what some observers consider) the best things to happen to the Web over the past year. These awards -- chosen by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, an organization of 663 online creative types around the world --...
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May 5, 2009; 12:21 PM ET |
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Google Gets Into the Public-Profile Business
Earlier this week, Google upgraded a little-known feature on its site -- the ability to set up a profile page with your name, photo, contact info, relevant links and any other tidbits you care to share (i.e., the same info every other social network wants you to provide). Instead of...
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April 23, 2009; 6:03 PM ET |
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Facebook Users Voting On New Terms of Service
Facebook is waiting to see the results of its experiment in user democracy: Six days ago, it invited its users to vote for or against two documents governing how the popular social-networking site operates, and the balloting ends at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time tomorrow. I pretty much told Facebook to...
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April 22, 2009; 7:00 PM ET |
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