By KATIE THOMAS Debbie Schork, a deli worker at a supermarket in Indiana, had to have her hand amputated after an emergency room nurse injected her with an anti-nausea drug, causing gangrene. She sued the…
By VON PLAGMANN WHEN you’re an employee of a company, no matter the size, it’s common to see co-workers promoted, or transferred to a different department. But there is another way to move around: by…
Do you want to learn how to build a website for yourself? Just follow these 5 simple steps to learn how to create a website for yourself: 1- Register A Domain Name 2- Host Your…
Do you or someone you know spend too much time playing video or computer games or going online? Here are some ways to tell if you need to ask for help: You feel really happy…
Although it hasn’t been given an “official” diagnosis, addiction-like behaviors with computer, video, and Internet gaming have noticeably increased among both teenagers and adults. Like any addictive behavior, there are signs to look for if…
by Owen Bowcott • Obsessed players may forget to eat or sleep • Patient, 23, treated with 12-step abstinence course Addiction to online games is becoming more widespread among vulnerable young people, according to a…
BY MATT VILLANO If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. For years, this summed up how decision-makers at Round Pond Estate winery and olive mill in Rutherford, Calif., felt about their website. Yes, the gang…
By BRIAN X. CHEN Still paying 99 cents to download a smartphone game? That’s far too much. More developers are now giving their games away — and then charging for extra features. The strategy is…
By MICHELLE HIGGINS BARGAIN hunters will need to be craftier when booking a trip if they want to get the best prices this year. It’s no secret that airfares are up and added fees for…
By MICHELLE HIGGINS AS thousands of passengers who were caught up in the latest bout of snowstorms along the East Coast can attest, when weather disrupts the system, travelers are basically on their own. Just…
by Ryan Pinto 1.The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Eight years after the events of The Dark Knight, the terrorist leader Bane arrives in Gotham City, pushing it and its police force to their limits, forcing…
By IBTIMES STAFF REPORTER Jason Russell, founder of Invisible Children and director of the “Kony 2012” viral video, was arrested Friday in San Diego for reportedly masturbating in public, vandalizing cars and public drunkenness, reported…
By KIM TINGLEY Setting off in the predawn gloaming of central Alaska, we were the sounds of swishing snow pants, crunching boots and cold puffs of breath. As sunrise gradually lightened the late November sky,…
By MICKEY MEECE If I moved my computer monitor close enough to see the screen clearly, it was nearly in my lap. If I left the monitor where it should be, I had to lean…
By LAWRENCE W. CHEEK MARTHA CHOE’S ideal working space is not her private office, nice though it is, but rather a long, narrow table in the vast atrium of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation…
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF I WENT on a walk in Manhattan the other day with a young woman who once had to work these streets, hired out by eight pimps while she was just 16…
By DWIGHT GARNER THE case against electronic books has been made, and elegantly, by many people, including Nicholson Baker in The New Yorker a few years ago. Mr. Baker called Amazon’s Kindle, in a memorable…
By DEXTER FORD HOW far can a modern car really go? Given the increasing age of vehicles on American roads, we may be on the verge of finding out. As a stubborn recession made drivers…
By DAVID ALLEN HOW do you think most workers would respond if you asked them, “Do you feel more productive now than you did several years ago?” I doubt that the answer would be a…
By JHUMPA LAHIRI In college, I used to underline sentences that struck me, that made me look up from the page. They were not necessarily the same sentences the professors pointed out, which would turn…
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ KEY WEST, Fla. — Ah, Spring Break, with its copious debauchery, its spontaneous bouts of breast-baring, Jager bombing and après-binge vomit. In this era of “Jersey Shore” antics and “Girls Gone Wild,”…
IRS Internal Revenue Service Answers: If you e-file, you can generally expect your refund within 10 – 21 days. The projected refund date “Where’s My Refund?” provides may change as your tax return moves through…
The Internal Revenue Service – An Overview of the I.R.S. The Internal Revenue Service (I.R.S.) is the agency that collects tax revenue for the United States federal government. Here’s an overview of how the agency…
By John Waggoner If you’re thinking of making Apple a core holding, your fund manager may have beaten you to it. Morningstar says 788 U.S. stock mutual funds had Apple as one of their top…
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The horse racing series Luck was canceled by HBO after a third thoroughbred died during production of the series starring Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte, the channel said Wednesday. The drama…
By Byron Acohido Cyberthieves are stepping up phone-calling scams that pilfer the accounts of consumers who bank online. And many such calls are linked to Caller ID spoofing, which causes the recipient’s phone to display…
By Charlie Szold AUSTIN, Texas – In the 1840s, speculators panned in rivers to find elusive gold bits that could make them rich overnight. In the 21st century, hardworking entrepreneurs toil over code and user…
By NICK BILTON People love Google Plus. Wait, they hate Google Plus. No, that’s not right, either. Lots of people are using Google Plus. No, it’s a ghost town. Rather than bicker constantly about who…
By DAVID H. FREEDMAN Constant Contact has been one of the big success stories when it comes to online companies that specialize in serving small businesses. Some half a million of them count on the…
By EVELYN M. RUSLI and BRIAN X. CHEN In a little over an hour, Ryan Matthew Pierson racked up $437.71 in iTunes charges for virtual currency that he could use to buy guns, nightclubs and…
By MICHAEL SOKOLOVE Nearly everything about the Foxwoods Resort Casino is improbable, beginning with its scale. It is the largest casino in the Western Hemisphere — a gigantic, labyrinthine wonderland set down in a cedar…
By JEREMY W. PETERS When presidential candidates have a message they want voters to hear far and wide, they have typically turned to that old campaign standby: the television ad. But as President Obama and…
By DAVID POGUE On Friday, the new iPad goes on sale. Be sure to ask for it by name: the iPad. Because if you ask for the iPad 3, the Apple representatives will look at…
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By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT WASHINGTON — During the five-month period between October and February, there were 86 reported attacks on computer systems in the United States that control critical infrastructure, factories and databases, according to…
By RONI CARYN RABIN Talk about sleepless nights. Patients taking prescription sleep aids on a regular basis were nearly five times as likely as non-users to die over a period of two and a half…
By JULIE BOSMAN After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print. Those coolly authoritative, gold-lettered reference books that were once sold door-to-door by a fleet of traveling salesmen and displayed as proud…
By NICK BILTON Clarified Mr. Shellen’s departure. On Friday, AOL notified more than 40 employees from its West Coast offices that they would be out of jobs by the end of the month. More cuts…
The South by Southwest (SXSW) music, film and interactive festival draws an affluent crowd of technology geeks and celebrities. The festival has been produced since 1987 by SXSW Inc., a private company based in Austin….
By Kelly West Poker continues to be a hugely popular game, and one that’s made its way into modern day popular culture, due in large part to televised poker tournaments, celebrity interest, and of course…
By Joanna Stern AUSTIN, Texas — The city of Austin is about to get a whole lot nerdier, at least for the next couple of days. The annual South by Southwest Interactive festival (don’t call…
By Dylan Reid Facebook’s recent filing has many commentators likening the social networking site, started in a Harvard dorm, to the search giant Google, founded by two Stanford PhDs less than a decade earlier. But…
By Rebecca Shapiro Media watchdogs have been paying close attention to the commercials aired during Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, as nearly 50 advertisers have pulled their content from the program in wake of the controversy…
by Margaret Wheeler Johnson HuffPost Women is at South By Southwest this weekend, and we’re thrilled to be hosting a panel on an issue we wanted to discuss with other women: anxiety about who you…
By NICK BILTON SAN FRANCISCO — Every night, I get home from work, drop onto the couch and sit there surfing the Web or watching videos on my 3 1/2-inch iPhone screen. My big-screen HDTV…
By STEPHANIE STROM Educators are giving YouTube — long dismissed as a storehouse of whimsical, time-wasting and occasionally distasteful videos — another look. As Google, YouTube’s parent company, fine-tunes a portal that lets schools limit…
By BEN SISARIO For a glimpse at the next phase in YouTube’s evolution, look no further than a stray crutch and a $20 birthday cake for Justin Bieber. Those were among the props at a…
By JULIE BOSMAN “Fifty Shades of Grey,” an erotic novel by an obscure author that has been described as “Mommy porn” and “Twilight” for grown-ups, has electrified women across the country, who have spread the…
A look at how a company went from start-up to Internet titan, and changed the way the world uses the Web in the process. Source: New York Times Video
By Erica Orden and Nicholas Bariyo A video campaign about a fugitive rebel leader in Africa has exploded into a viral online phenomenon, igniting debate about the group behind it and the threat posed by…
