Will smartphone hacking come into its own in 2013?
Big Tech
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SXSWedu: How to Stop Worrying (about Education) and Love Technology
Last week’s education conference highlighted how easy it is ignore fundamental debates in education and embrace the happy rhetoric.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
It’s an Ad World After All
Is it legal for a company to take out Internet ads on your name after you’ve filed a complaint against it? Apparently so.
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A Tea Party Hit on Net Neutrality
The right gives its anti-Net-neutrality agenda a formal hearing.
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IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES…AGAIN.
BIll Clinton is taking some heat for saying, “it’s always a mistake to bet against America…It was tough in 1992 and we wound up with the eight best years we’ve had in modern history.” But this is actually a relatively modest, inarguable claim. The best comparison is how in almost every election year you hear […]
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I GET BY…
I GET BY WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES. I’m happy to see Sebastian Mallaby giving a big ol’ backhand to his colleague Robert Samuelson‘s column on why only the engineers can save us from global warming. As Mallaby points out, the engineers ain’t gonna do jack if government doesn’t regulate and […]
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The Real Black Gold
The ever growing buzz over alternative energy sources received a major boost last January, when President Bush confessed to America’s oil addiction in his State of the Union Address. But since then, amidst all the speculation about a cleaner, greener tomorrow, one thing has been notably absent: an honest assessment of where we are now, […]
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The Breakdown
From the CAFTA article mentioned below, I love this closing paragraph on the high tech industry’s donations: The result, in recent years, has been near parity in campaign contributions, splitting 54 to 45 percent in the Democrats’ favor in 2004, 51 to 48 percent in the GOP’s favor in 2002. This stands in direct contrast […]
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Tear Down This Wal?
Two-hundred new Supercenters, a quarter of a trillion dollars in sales, climbing stock prices: That’s the news that will be delivered today at Wal-Mart’s annual shareholders meeting in Fayetteville, Arkansas. How far will Wal-Mart go? James Hoopes, a professor of history and business ethics at Babson College, and Harold Meyerson, the Prospect‘s editor-at-large, discuss whether […]
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What Killed the Boom?
The worry is obvious: just as an expanding high-tech sector contributed to strong growth in the 1990s, so might a deepening slump intechnology drag down the entire economy. High among the sources of concern is therecent meltdown in the telecom industry. Even after the dot-com collapse, abroadband upgrade of the Internet seemed sure to be […]