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The psychology of healthcare reform

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

CNET News - By Adam Richardson - Nov. 13 (Opinion) - The House has passed the first comprehensive reform package of the health insurance industry in decades, which is now up for debate in the Senate. This is a highly complex issue, but there are some quite basic reasons why it's so difficult to accomplish significant reform, and in part these have to do with psychological responses to change and uncertainty.

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Crimeware: Looking for solutions | IT Security | TechRepublic.com

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:29:25 -0700

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Astronomers study 'gargantuan' Jupiter impact | The Space Shot

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - Jul. 21 (News Report) - Telegraph.co.ukAstronomers study 'gargantuan' Jupiter impactCNET NewsAn unseen comet or possibly an icy asteroid apparently crashed into Jupiter's atmosphere near the giant planet's south pole sometime during the last few days, creating a "gargantuan" blemish easily visible from Earth. ...Deep Impact: Jupiter Hit by Comet or MeteoroidABC NewsAnother Object Collides with Jupiter 15 Years After Shoemaker-Levy 9DailyTechJupiter's cosmic smash: what does it mean for Earth?Times OnlineBBC News?-Register?-Christian Science Monitorall 326 news articles??

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'#CNNFail': Twitterverse slams network's Iran absence | Webware

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Daniel Terdiman - Jun. 14 (News Report) - Even as Twitter became the best source for rapid-fire news developments from the front lines of the riots in Tehran, a growing number of users of the microblogging service were incredulous at the near total lack of coverage of the story on CNN, a network that cut its teeth with on-the-spot reporting from the Middle East.

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Zenn plans to be the 'Intel Inside' of electric cars

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Candace Lombardi - Mar. 26 (News Report) - Zenn CEO Ian Clifford offered a true-believer-style pep talk: With the commercialization of EESTor's game-changing electronic storage technology Zenn will take the central role in enabling electric drive around the world with a business model that can best be described as an Intel Inside energy solution custom tailored to work with any and all OEM platforms. We'll partner with the automotive industry and governments around the world to ensure that electric vehicles are available to all consumers both as new highly capably vehicles and conversions of existing internal combustion vehicles to Zennergy drive.

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For The New York Times, the digital future is now

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Daniel Terdiman - Mar. 10 (News Report) - By now, just about everyone who follows the media industry has heard of the deep fiscal troubles of The New York Times. But even as the paper does its best for all the news that's fit for newsprint, it is also conducting experiments aimed at moving itself into the forefront of digital journalism.

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Obama picks Net neutrality backer as FCC chief

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

CNET News - By Declan McCullagh - Mar. 04 (News Report) - President Obama on Tuesday nominated Julius Genachowski as the nation's top telecommunications regulator, picking a campaign advisor who has divided his career between Washington, D.C., political jobs and working as an Internet executive.

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Leapfrog unveils 'baby BlackBerry' for tots |

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

CNET News - By David Carnoy - Jan. 28 (News Report) - Now kids can mimic their parents and send text messages and check their schedules at all hours of the day. The device, which is a bit bigger than your average BlackBerry, is geared toward preschoolers who are just learning to spell and includes games that focus on spelling and basic computer skills.

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Google accused of turning its back on Net neutrality | Politics and Law

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

CNET News - By Declan McCullagh - Dec. 15 (Opinion) - The problem with defining Net neutrality so the government can regulate it is a little like the problem of defining obscenity so the government can ban it: You know it when you see it.

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Joe Biden's pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record.b

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Declan McCullagh - Aug. 24 (Opinion) - By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward the bottom of CNET's Technology Voters' Guide, and whose anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

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Homeland Security: We can seize laptops for an indefinite period

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Declan McCullagh - Aug. 02 (News Report) - A pair of DHS policies from last month say that customs agents can routinely--as a matter of course--seize, make copies of, and "analyze the information transported by any individual attempting to enter, re-enter, depart, pass through, or reside in the United States.

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As gas costs climb, driving dwindles

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Elsa Wenzel - Jun. 10 (Poll) - Two-thirds of Americans have already changed how much they drive due to high prices at the pump, according to a poll commissioned by Access America Travel Insurance and Assistance.

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One-fifth of Americans have never used e-mail

Mon, 19 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - May. 19 (Poll) - About 20 percent of all U.S. heads-of-household have never sent an e-mail, and about 20 million households, or 18 percent, are without Internet access, according to a study released earlier this week.

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A business model for Twitter: Pay up

Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Dan Farber - May. 17 (Opinion) - The Web spirit of "build an audience and figure out the business model later" is a great filter. It allows products and services into the wild without barriers or the need to sell advertisers on an unproven concept. Those who can build an audience, such as Twitter and FriendFeed, and before them Google, Facebook, and dozens of others who turned into giants, have the scale to develop monetization schemes that a loyal and fanatic user base won't summarily reject.

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Google to launch Friend Connect for the social Web

Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Dan Farber - May. 11 (Opinion) - Google is expected to join the social network data portability crowd with "Friend Connect" on Monday. TechCrunch speculates that Friend Connect will be a set of "APIs for Open Social participants to pull profile information from social networks into third party websites." Google will join Facebook and MySpace, which launched ways to port user data to partner sites this week. Facebook Connect will provide the hooks to let users port their friends, profile photos, events, and other data across the Web to partner sites. MySpace on Thursday announced Data Availability, with Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter as initial partners for its effort to let members port their data.

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Is Microsoft stalking Powerset's search technology?

Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Dan Farber - May. 10 (News Report) - Powerset raises the bar on search based on a preview that I had of the service last month. Powerset differs from the Google in that it extracts and indexes concepts, relationships, and meaning, rather than keywords. It's able to create connections and pivot in some cases in ways that elude Google's proficient engine, which favors more of a statistical approach.

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Google to Launch Friend Connect for the social Web

Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Dan Farber - May. 10 (Opinion) - Google is expected to join the social network data portability crowd with "Friend Connect" on Monday. TechCrunch speculates that Friend Connect will be a set of "APIs for Open Social participants to pull profile information from social networks into third party websites."

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Q&A: Battelle talks blog roll-ups, Google, and Federated Media's future

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Stephanie Olsen - Mar. 22 (Interview) - By federating together with a lot of other like sites, they get better access to terms and deals from large companies like Google or Microsoft. The core of that is that we work with a select group of really high-quality sites that are independent; and it's in our interest to help them stay that way. Particularly last year, everyone was running around talking about how cool the idea of a roll-up was: "We'll buy a bunch of these sites and stick them together and we've got the next big media company."I'm not certain that that strategy doesn't kill the...goose that laid the golden egg.

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Judge: Wikileaks gets its domain name back

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

CNET News - By Declan McCullagh - Mar. 01 (News Report) - "The court has the obligation to get it right," White had told attorneys for Bank Julius Baer, or BJB, earlier Friday. "I took an obligation to uphold the Constitution. The court has its own obligation to raise these issues. Contrary to what you say, my obligation is to look down the road and see where this thing is going."... a host of free-speech groups, including Public Citizen, the California First Amendment Coalition, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Project on Government Oversight, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, requested to intervene in the case on behalf of Wikileaks.

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Ad spending moving from portals to search, entertainment sites

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

CNET News - By Elinor Mills - Feb. 25 (Opinion) - The share spent on portals dropped from 24 percent in 2006 to 19 percent, while search share rose to 31 percent from 28 percent, vertical sites rose to 39 percent from 37 percent, and spending on ad networks was flat at 11 percent. More dollars went to the top 5 ad networks.

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Wikileaks domain name yanked in spat over leaked documents

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

CNET News - By Declan McCullagh - Feb. 19 (Opinion) - U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White on Friday ordered that the domain name be disabled at the behest of a group of Swiss bankers who filed a lawsuit alleging that confidential information appeared on Wikileaks.org.

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National Press Club targets citizen journalists

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

CNET News - By Stefanie Olsen - Feb. 15 (News Report) - The National Press Club, a 100-year-old professional club for journalists, aims to recruit new online-media members through a partnership with Helium.com, a hub for citizen journalists. The deal is expected to be announced on Tuesday.

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Religious minorities face Real ID crackdown

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

CNET News - By Anne Broache - Feb. 06 (Special Report) - "We are deeply concerned that Real ID and the associated regulations intrude on the religious liberty of many Americans who for reasons of faith wear head coverings or object entirely to having their photo taken," said Daniel Mach, director of litigation for the ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief. "The faithful shouldn't have to choose between a driver's license and their religious beliefs."

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Real ID vs The States

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

CNET News - By Anne Broache, Declan McCullagh - Feb. 04 (Special Report) - Editor's note: A May deadline looms as just one flash point in a political showdown between Homeland Security and states that oppose Real ID demands. This is the first in a four-part series examining the confrontation.

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Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

CNET News - By Ina Fried - Feb. 01 (News Report) - The move would be by far the largest acquisition ever for Microsoft. Its largest prior deal, also in the online-advertising space, was last year's $6 billion deal to acquire Aquantive. Asked on the conference call why Microsoft still needs Yahoo after buying Aquantive, Ballmer pointed to Yahoo's reach with consumers.

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