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…
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Battling media boxes: Apple TV vs. Roku
By Rob Pegoraro A tiny $99 box can connect your TV to a wealth of Internet-delivered TV shows, movies, pictures, podcasts and music. But which $99 box should you get? In one corner, there’s Apple’s…
Quick Guide to top cell phone carriers
by Kent German Choosing a cell phone carrier isn’t easy. Should your choice come down to network coverage, or should you decide based on the selection of phones? Or perhaps the level of customer service…
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…
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…
Does Your Team Have the Four Essential Types?
By ADAM BRYANT This interview with Paul Maritz, , president and C.E.O. of the software firm VMware, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. What are some important leadership lessons for you? A. I’ve…
Scientists and Soldiers Solve a Bee Mystery
By KIRK JOHNSON DENVER — It has been one of the great murder mysteries of the garden: what is killing off the honeybees? Since 2006, 20 to 40 percent of the bee colonies in the…
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…
Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic
By JOHN MARKOFF MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Anyone driving the twists of Highway 1 between San Francisco and Los Angeles recently may have glimpsed a Toyota Prius with a curious funnel-like cylinder on the roof….
How technology keeps movies, TV shows relevant
By Stephanie Goldberg (CNN) — Upon his release from prison in the new “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” corporate raider Gordon Gekko reclaims his belongings: A gold watch and a mobile phone the size of…
Google Inc.
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…
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….
From ‘Avatar’ Playbook, Athletes Use 3-D Imaging
By JAMES GLANZ and ALAN SCHWARZ In the endless quest for athletic advantage, a handful of major league baseball teams are engaged in an elaborate, largely clandestine race to master an advanced imaging technology that…
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…
Getting Listed in Google, Yahoo and Bing
by Lisa Irby Getting listed in Google and the other popular search engines is one of the most effective ways of directing free, targeted traffic to your website. Below you’ll discover what the search engines…
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…
Brighthouse Networks Customer Service Get a Poor Grade
If you don’t have any problems, Brighthouse can be great. But then, companies you really want to do business with prove that to you WHEN THERE IS A PROBLEM. 9/1/2010 – This company has gotten…
Why your services were disconnected and how to restore them
If you’ve been informed that your Internet service has been suspended by the security department, it’s most likely that a computer virus has compromised your computer. Although the security department sometimes suspends the Internet service…
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…
How to Get Rid of Love Bugs
It’s late in spring or summer, and love is in the air — in your garden, porch, on the windshield of your car. Love is everywhere. It’s the kind of love that drives people insane:…
Phys Ed: Can Exercise Make Kids Smarter?
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS In an experiment published last month, researchers recruited schoolchildren, ages 9 and 10, who lived near the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois and asked them to run on a treadmill….
Take One Last Look
By CATHY HORYN Published: September 17, 2010 Fashion writers and professionals have been complaining about the motley nature of the shows since the mid-1970s, when designers moved their presentations to hotel ballrooms and, through the…
Woods, a Man on His Own, Is No Longer One of a Kind
By CHARLES McGRATH Published: August 21, 2010 What on earth is wrong with Tiger Woods? It’s true he played a little better at the P.G.A. Championship, where he at least made the cut and finished…
Search Takes a Social Turn
By JENNA WORTHAM Published: September 12, 2010 Now, even on the Internet, it is not what you know but who you know. After a decade when search engines ruled supreme — tapping billions of Web…
A Baby Photo Becomes an Internet Meme
By MATT GROSS Published: September 15, 2010 SOMETIME back in 2000, Allen S. Rout, a systems programmer from Gainesville, Fla., posted a few photos of his 5-month-old son, Stephen, on his personal Web site. They…
Can Digg Find Its Way in the Crowd?
By TODD WASSERMAN Published: September 18, 2010 AMY VERNON still recalls the first time, two years ago, when a story she posted on the social news site Digg became popular. She had promoted a blog…
Google User Experience
Google User Experience Our aspirations The Google User Experience team aims to create designs that are useful, fast, simple, engaging, innovative, universal, profitable, beautiful, trustworthy, and personable. Achieving a harmonious balance of these ten principles…
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
SEO is an acronym for “search engine optimization” or “search engine optimizer.” Deciding to hire an SEO is a big decision that can potentially improve your site and save time, but you can also risk…
Watching the Catwalk, and Clicking ‘Add to Cart’
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD Published: September 11, 2010 It used to be that designers showed clothes at Fashion Week to court the influential few, mainly the buyers and fashion editors who determined what styles would be…
Fending Off the Weeds With Newsprint
By ANNE RAVER Published: September 8, 2010 THE garden suffered through another heat wave last week: day after day in the high 90s and no rain. (Didn’t I say that a few weeks ago?) Hurricane…
Space Commandos Back at War, With Retooled Combat Gizmos
By SETH SCHIESEL Published: September 12, 2010 The highest compliment I can pay Halo: Reach, set for release Tuesday for the Xbox 360, is to say that as soon as I finished it, I wanted…
Car Sharing: Ownership by the Hour
By KEN BELSON Published: September 10, 2010 FOR all the reasons it may make sense to rent a car — a carless household facing a gaggle of errands, a temporary need for a second vehicle,…
Video Clips on the Web for Scouting and Laughs
By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY Published: September 11, 2010 This is the era of the screen — touch, wide, flat, etc. — and tennis is not even close to immune. The players’ lounge at the United States…
Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits
By BENEDICT CAREY Published: September 6, 2010 Every September, millions of parents try a kind of psychological witchcraft, to transform their summer-glazed campers into fall students, their video-bugs into bookworms. Advice is cheap and all…
Google Advertises Its Display Advertising
By TANZINA VEGA September 9, 2010 Google is rolling out a new advertising campaign on Thursday for its display advertising platform. The campaign, called Watch This Space, will run in advertising trade magazines and in other…
Burglars Picked Houses Based on Facebook Updates
By NICK BILTON September 12, 2010 If you plan to log into your Facebook account and announce to the world that you’re heading to the beach for the weekend, you might want to append the status…
To Create Jobs, Nurture Start-Ups
By STEVE LOHR Published: September 11, 2010 MODERN tools of data analysis — fast computers, smart software and vast troves of digital information — often open the door to new insights. Consider the subject of jobs…
Google Unveils Tool to Speed Up Searches
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Published: September 8, 2010 SAN FRANCISCO — Google, which can already feel like an appendage to our brains, is now predicting what people are thinking before they even type. On Wednesday, Google…