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The digital age has changed what it means to 'search'
Nicholas Carr Jan 15, 2013
As more sites look to monetize web search functions, a commentator questions what it means 'to search.'
Googling the flu and going high speed cable in China
David Brancaccio Jan 14, 2013
Is this a regular flu season or one for the record books? It depends a bit on whether your metric is the official numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or Google. In China, the government is requiring each new home close to necessary infrastructure to get a fiber optic cable hookup.
Is fear a financial motivator?
Jeff Horwich Dec 12, 2012
Seems like every time you turn on the news, there's some new danger to our health or our financial well-being.
Using websites to manage your finances
Paddy Hirsch Dec 12, 2012
The holiday season might be a time of year when you don't even want to look at your personal finances because money is going out the door right and left. You certainly don't want to go to a website that puts all your financial accounts in one place and makes charts and graphs out of your money - or do you?
The latest Internet craze: Porting
Jeremy Hobson Dec 10, 2012
Watch out coning - you aren't the only kid on the Internet block anymore.
Online world anxious over new U.N. regulations
Bob Moon Dec 3, 2012
Heavy hitters in the online world worry that U.N. regulation could stifle the Internet's future.
Texting turns 20, U.N. group begins talks over Internet control
David Brancaccio Dec 4, 2012
Celebrating the text message as the technology turns twenty, and waiting on results from a UN summit on controlling the Internet.
The growing art of data dodging
Stacey Vanek Smith Dec 6, 2012
As paranoia about online tracking grows, so too the number of businesses that help consumers prevent marketers from mining their personal data.
Musicians rally against cuts to web royalties
Nancy Marshall-Genzer Nov 28, 2012
A proposal in Congress would let Internet radio sites pay lower royalties.
What's lost when phone service goes digital
Scott Tong Nov 8, 2012
AT&T is making a big investment in its digital network -- and signaling its original, and extremely reliable, copper-wire system is on the way out.
