Siri Answers Questions From Readers
By SAM GROBART On Thursday, we asked readers to submit questions for Siri, Apple’s new virtual personal assistant in the iPhone 4S. Below are some of Siri’s most entertaining answers. We threw in some questions…
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Smartphone Apps Send Holiday Greetings
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Does the idea of buying holiday cards, gathering the mailing addresses for friends and family, writing personal notes by hand, buying stamps, addressing envelopes and carting them to the post office…
A Look at Apple’s Spot-the-Shopper Technology
By BRIAN X. CHEN A Black Friday visit to the Apple Store in Palo Alto, Calif., offered a glimpse of the new technology Apple is using to speed purchases. A store employee, Diego Aguirre, demonstrated…
Voice Messaging Services Aimed at the Masses
By SONIA KOLESNIKOV-JESSOP SINGAPORE — Amitabh Bachchan, one of Bollywood’s biggest movie stars, writes a blog and is widely followed on social media. The Big B, as he is affectionately called, started blogging in 2008…
Pushing On-the-Go Gadgets, Google Makes Its Pitch in Mobile
By STUART ELLIOTT THE song “Blues in the Night” includes a line that begins, “From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe.” Now, marketers are studying the results of a campaign that extends from…
AT&T Merger With T-Mobile Faces Setbacks
By EDWARD WYATT and JENNA WORTHAM WASHINGTON — AT&T and T-Mobile USA edged closer to scrapping their proposed merger, saying on Thursday that they had withdrawn their application to the Federal Communications Commission to join…
Quietly, Google Puts History Online
By ERIC PFANNER PARIS — When the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, home to the Dead Sea Scrolls, reopened last year after an extensive renovation, it attracted a million visitors in the first 12 months. When…
Mixed Results as Google Enters Microsoft’s Turf
By QUENTIN HARDY MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Michael O’Brien, vice president for information technology at Journal Communications, would prefer not to have the employees of the Milwaukee media company use Microsoft’s Office software any more….
Retailers Enliven Catalog Offerings Through Apps
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER When you browse Anthropologie’s stores, you feel as if you’re wandering through an artsy home, where there are sure to be closets full of eclectic outfits, bedrooms with bohemian quilts and…
Patent Office Highlights Jobs’s Innovations
By BRIAN X. CHEN The United States Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Va., recently unveiled an exhibit of 30 giant iPhone-like models honoring the inventions of the late Steve Jobs. Each iPhone model displays…
As Investors Flee Groupon, Outlook for I.P.O.’s Darkens
BY EVELYN M. RUSLI Unable to break a three-day slide, shares of Groupon tumbled again on Wednesday, as more investors dumped shares. For the first time since it went public earlier this month, Groupon broke…
Microsoft Signs Nondisclosure Agreement With Yahoo
BY MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED Microsoft is officially kicking the tires at Yahoo again, three years after it failed to buy control of the company. The software giant has signed a confidentiality agreement with Yahoo,…
Foreclosure Oviedo Florida – Real Estate Short Sales
Foreclosure Oviedo Florida FORECLOSURE OVIEDO FLORIDA, PREFORECLOSURES, FORECLOSURE AUCTIONS AND REAL ESTATE SHORT SALES. Here are all Oviedo, Florida foreclosure listings available. Foreclosed homes for sale in Oviedo can save you up to 50 percent or…
Foreclosure Oviedo Homes – Avoiding Foreclosure in Oviedo Florida
Avoiding Foreclosure in Oviedo Florida The Obama Administration has implemented a number of programs to assist homeowners who are at risk of foreclosure and otherwise struggling with their monthly mortgage payments. The majority of these…
Foreclosure Oviedo Florida Homes – Short Sale Opportunities
Foreclosure is the legal process by which a mortgage lender (mortgagee), or other lien holder, obtains a termination of a mortgage borrower (mortgagor)’s equitable right of redemption, either by court order or by operation of…
Steve Jobs Passes Away (1955-2011)
Steven Paul Jobs, 56, died earlier today at his home with his family. The co-founder and, until last August, the CEO of Apple, Inc., was the most celebrated person in technology and business on the…
CNET looks at current and upcoming tablets
By: Eric Franklin The tablet market is like that kid in school who, at first, no one really noticed. Then, a year later he starts the school year a foot taller, with a new wardrobe,…
Another Try by Google to Take On Facebook
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Remember Google Buzz? What about Orkut, or Google Wave? Google has tried several times, without much success, to take on Facebook and master social networking. Now it is making its biggest…
Avenged Sevenfold Bump Eminem From Billboard #1
Last week, we wondered how long Eminem’s Recovery could hold on to the pole position on the Billboard 200, predicting that it might run the board until Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream drops on August 24….
Another Try by Google to Take On Facebook
Remember Google Buzz? What about Orkut, or Google Wave? Google has tried several times, without much success, to take on Facebook and master social networking. Now it is making its biggest effort yet. On Tuesday,…
No Known Terror Threat Looming Over July 4 Holiday, U.S. Officials Say
WASHINGTON — New evidence uncovered from Usama bin Laden’s compound shows that the terror leader was focused on plotting attacks to coincide with symbolic dates, like the Fourth of July, but intelligence officials told Fox…
10 Apps That Make Magic on Your iPad
By BOB TEDESCHI Published: December 8, 2010 When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad and referred to it as a magical device, lots of people snickered. Silly people. Most iPad owners will tell you that it…
Top 10 Android Apps
By BOB TEDESCHI Published: December 1, 2010 A few weeks ago, I compiled a list of essential iPhone apps for people who are too busy to sift through the roughly 300,000 titles in the App…
Top 10 Must-Have Apps for the iPhone, and Some Runners-Up
By BOB TEDESCHI Published: November 10, 2010 I’m always surprised when I come across people who have yet to fill their iPhone with apps. The most often cited excuse? Not enough time to sift through…
Mac App Store Opens for Business
By NICK BILTON The Mac App Store officially opened for business on Thursday, with Apple offering customers a new way to instantly purchase and download software for their Mac computers and laptops. Steven P. Jobs,…
Tech Show Surprises, and the Stale
By DAVID POGUE Published: January 12, 2011 The star of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show wasn’t even there. That might sound like an odd remark, but it’s true. Look, summing up the major trends of…
McDonald’s Workers Are Told Whom to Vote for
By SABRINA TAVERNISE WASHINGTON — When workers in a McDonald’s restaurant in Canton, Ohio, opened their paychecks this month, they found a pamphlet urging them to vote for the Republican candidates for governor, Senate and…
Google Place Search Emphasizes Local SEO
by Laurie Sullivan Google began rolling out Place Search to combine local and organic listings on Google.com when searchers look for information around location. It aggregates results based on places, so searchers can compare information,…
Google Searching Gets More Local
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER This week Google is introducing two new features. One is a new way to search — Place Search, for finding local businesses along with maps and reviews. The other is a…
Google, Facebook battle for ‘future of the Web’
Sharon Gaudin Microsoft advanced its partnership with Facebook this week, a move that could be the biggest threat to Google’s search standing yet. Microsoft and Facebook announced that they’re teaming up to make Internet searching more…
Google Promotes Susan Wojcicki, Advertising Executive
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Susan Wojcicki, the Google executive who oversees advertising and who also supplied the garage where Google was founded, has been given a promotion. Ms. Wojcicki has been named a senior vice president, Eric E….
Moon Crater Contains Usable Water, NASA Says
By KENNETH CHANG The Moon, at least at the bottom of a deep, dark cold crater near its south pole, seems to be wetter than the Sahara, scientists reported Thursday. In lunar terms, that is an oasis, surprisingly…
The 20 Best Job Search Web Sites
By: Sean Ludwig Unemployment numbers are sky high, but there is a silver lining: there are lots of great online resources to help job seekers find work. As we all know by now, unemployment numbers…
As Prostitutes Turn to Craigslist, Law Takes Notice
By BRUCE LAMBERT GARDEN CITY, N.Y., — The eight women visited Long Island this summer along with vacationing families and other business travelers, staying in hotels and motels in commercial strips in middle-class suburbs like…
10 Do’s and Don’ts for Facebook Pages
Use these tips to make the most of your Facebook marketing efforts. By Scott Gerber Facebook may have 500 million users, but having an outpost on the social-media site won’t necessarily increase sales or referrals…
Blogging Made Easy
Four tips for those of you who aren’t Web geeks, starting with the basics. By Dan Briody For all of you who aren’t Web geeks, let’s start with some blogging basics — and then talk…
Report: Apple Investigating iPhone 4 Case Scratches, Cracks
By: Chloe Albanesius Is a third-party case scratching up or even cracking your iPhone 4? Tech blog gdgt reported Thursday that some slide-on, third-party cases can cause scratches or cracking on the iPhone 4, so…
Verizon iPhone 4 brings competition, finally, between U.S. carriers
Verizon brings the iPhone 4 to market at a time when AT&T already has the iPhone 4 on the market. It’s good news for those Verizon customers who have always had interest in the iPhone…
Facebook Politicians Are Not Your Friends
By FRANK RICH “THE Social Network,” you’re understandably sick of hearing, is a brilliant movie about the Harvard upstart Mark Zuckerberg and the messy birth of his fabulous start-up, Facebook, circa 2004. From the noisy…
After Building an Audience, Twitter Turns to Ads
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and TANZINA VEGA In the last two weeks, the company has introduced several advertising plans, courted Madison Avenue at Advertising Week, the annual industry conference, and promoted Dick Costolo, who has…
New Web Code Draws Concern Over Risks to Privacy
By TANZINA VEGA Worries over Internet privacy have spurred lawsuits, conspiracy theories and consumer anxiety as marketers and others invent new ways to track computer users on the Internet. But the alarmists have not seen…
Surplus Auctions Exposed: Is 95% Off Retail Price Possible?
Surplus auction websites are a new phenomenon that is quickly spreading through North America and Europe (like you have probably already seen). They are all over the internet in blogs and success stories of people…
Google opens URL-shortener Goo.gl to public
By Damon Brown, Special to CNN (CNN) — Web-page addresses can be notoriously long, but even the normal ones seem absolutely huge in our age of Twitter and text messaging. Every letter counts when you…
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Founded in 1998, Google runs the world’s most popular Internet search engine. It’s a position that has earned Google huge profits and given it outsize influence over the online world. But Google’s ambition far exceeds…
California Reduces Its Penalty for Marijuana
By JESSE McKINLEY SAN FRANCISCO — A month before California voters decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would legalize marijuana, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill that essentially puts those caught possessing…
Iran Says It Arrested Computer Worm Suspects
By WILLIAM YONG TEHRAN — Iran has arrested an unspecified number of “nuclear spies” in connection with a damaging worm that has infected computers in its nuclear program, the intelligence minister, Heydar Moslehi, said Saturday….
The Social Network (2010) – Movie Review
By MANOHLA DARGIS Millions of Friends, but Not Very Popular What makes Mark Zuckerberg run? In “The Social Network,” David Fincher’s fleet, weirdly funny, exhilarating, alarming and fictionalized look at the man behind the social-media…
More States Allowing Guns in Bars and Restaurants
By MALCOLM GAY NASHVILLE — Happy-hour beers were going for $5 at Past Perfect, a cavernous bar just off this city’s strip of honky-tonk restaurants and tourist shops when Adam Ringenberg walked in with a…
Nintendo Wii to Add Netflix Service for Streaming Video
By BRAD STONE SAN FRANCISCO — Owners of the Nintendo Wii can finally stop waving their video game controllers in the air and sink back onto the couch. Nintendo is bringing Netflix’s online streaming video…
Bright House Releases Statement On Central Florida Internet Problems
ORLANDO, Fla. — Bright House Networks customers are getting increasingly angry over Internet connection problems that apparently have been plaguing all of Central Florida. Most of the customers reporting the problems to Eyewitness News first…