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Tech
Instagram retreats from policy changes
by
Queena Kim
Dec 21, 2012
The photo sharing app Instagram is retreating from its new privacy policy after users cried foul. How common are such reversals in the tech world?
New York looks to reinvent city’s payphones
Dec 6, 2012
In the cellphone era, what’s the value of a payphone? New York sees advertising and Internet hot spots as the future for its 11,000 payphones.
Cadbury to release non-melting chocolate bar
Nov 26, 2012
Cadbury, which is now owned by Kraft Foods, has developed a chocolate bar resistant to heat up 104 degrees.
Behaving badly at Apple and Microsoft
by
Queena Kim
Nov 16, 2012
Since when did being “difficult” become a handicap in tech?
Windows 8 boss exits Microsoft in surprising shake-up
Nov 13, 2012
Steven Sinofsky, who was president of Microsoft's flagship product Windows, is leaving the company. His departure comes as a surprise, less than one month after the release of Windows 8.
YouTube to pull back funding, and skin healing plastic
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Molly Wood
Nov 13, 2012
YouTube may slash funding to over half of its new channels and a plastic that repairs itself like skin heals itself, but faster.
Is Apple losing its creative shine?
by
Queena Kim
Nov 9, 2012
Despite booming sales of popular products like the iPhone 5, Apple stock is falling. And some question the company's future as an innovator.
For public good, not for profit.
Tech President, The Next Generation
by
Molly Wood
Nov 7, 2012
It is Obama 2.0 -- what are the technology issues that will dominate over the next four years of the new Obama Administration?
Electronic voting and the security of a paper trail
by
Molly Wood
Nov 6, 2012
Why electronic voting’s challenges, from hacking to glitches, might be best with an old fashioned analogue backup.
Technology to soar, deficit to fade, Africa takes the day
Oct 25, 2012
Not everything in the economy hinges on who wins in November. Whether it's President Obama or President Romney -- we're predicting three things are certain by 2016.