Jul 16 2011

Sports Business: A Tip Becomes a Twitter Torrent

A torrent of posts on Twitter — about a sportswriter who may or may not have been suspended — displayed the raw influence of social media.

Jul 16 2011

Business Briefing | TECHNOLOGY: Apple Wins a Ruling in a Patent Dispute

Apple won a preliminary ruling from a federal trade panel that a Taiwanese handset maker, the HTC Corporation, had infringed on two of its patents.

Jul 15 2011

Bits: Bits Pics: Showing the Location of Tweets and Flickr Photos

Eric Fischer, a programmer and designer, created a series of beautiful maps that plot the location of people’s Twitter messages and Flickr photos.

Jul 15 2011

Hackers Gained Access to Sensitive Military Files

As the Pentagon announced a new cyberspace strategy, it disclosed a serious digital attack in March.

Jul 15 2011

Google Results Show Growing Strength

The company’s stock price rose in after-hours trading following the results, which were the first under Larry Page as chief executive.

Jul 15 2011

Chicago News Cooperative: An Old Company With New Tricks to Teach

Motorola may seem like a stodgy old brand, but it has a lot of things to teach trendy new companies like Groupon.

Jul 15 2011

Internet Use Affects Memory, Study Finds

Subjects were more likely to remember information that they would not be able to retrieve from a computer.

Jul 14 2011

Bits: Amazon’s Android Tablet Struggles

The Amazon tablet, which is expected to be introduced later this year, has been in the works for more than a year as executives at the company have struggled with a number of challenges.

Jul 14 2011

To Track Militants, U.S. Has System That Never Forgets a Face

The American military and local authorities are recording identifying information of Iraqis and Afghans.

Jul 14 2011

Bits: Photofly Brings 3-D Models to the Masses

Photofly, a service from Autodesk that builds 3-D models from photographs, has spawned a mini-genre of YouTube videos showing what can be done with the service.

Jul 14 2011

New Service Offers Music in Quantity, Not by Song

Rather than selling individual tracks to be downloaded, Spotify, from Europe, sells subscriptions to vast catalogs of music.

Jul 14 2011

Amazon Takes On California

Amazon has an ambitious and far-reaching new agenda: it wants to rewrite tax policy for the Internet era.

Jul 13 2011

Bits: Tablets Continue to Dent PC Sales

The competition from tablets is clearly having an impact on computer sales, IDC and Gartner have concluded. The reports also showed Acer slipping dramatically as Apple rose.

Feb 3 2011

Speculation of Alliance With Microsoft Lifts Nokia Shares

The rumor is that Nokia will abandon its Symbian operating system and use Windows Phone software in all its models. The announcement could come next week.

Jan 27 2011

Sony Plans to Release New Handheld Gaming Device This Year

The Japanese electronics giant is fighting to claw its way back a market being transformed by both longtime rivals, like Nintendo, and those beyond the traditional gaming world, like Apple.

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