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Amazon unveils new Kindle; Assessing the e-reader fallout
Amazon launched its next-generation Kindle, which is faster, lighter and smaller. The move sets Amazon up for the holiday shopping season and puts pressure on rivals, notably Barnes & Noble as well as Sony, to create next-generation devices.
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Larry Dignan
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Larry Dignan
Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news editor and finance editor at CNET News.com. Larry has covered the technology and financial services industry since 1995, publishing articles in WallStreetWeek.com, Inter@ctive Week, The New York Times, and Financial Planning magazine. He's a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and the University of Delaware.
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Sam Diaz
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Sam Diaz
Sam Diaz is a senior editor at ZDNet. He has been a technology and business blogger, reporter and editor at the Washington Post, San Jose Mercury News and Fresno Bee for more than 18 years. He's a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and a graduate of California State University, Fresno.
Andrew Nusca
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Andrew Nusca
Associate Editor
Andrew J. Nusca is an associate editor for ZDNet and SmartPlanet. As a journalist based in New York City, he has written for Popular Mechanics and Men's Vogue and his byline has appeared in New York magazine, The Huffington Post, New York Daily News, Editor & Publisher, New York Press and many others. He also writes The Editorialiste, a media criticism blog.
He is a New York University graduate and former news editor and columnist of the Washington Square News. He is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has been named "Howard Kurtz, Jr." by film critic John Lichman despite having no relation to him. A native of Philadelphia, he lives in New York with his fiancee and his cat, Spats.
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AOL's Garlinghouse talks 'startarounds,' calls Yahoo Sybil
“The first part of fixing a problem is admitting the problem. At AOL we have a big F-ing problem,” says Brad Garlinghouse, president of consumer applications at AOL.
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Facebook IPO: Does Zuckerberg really need Wall Street on his back, too?
A report today says that a Facebook is in no rush to go public and that an IPO likely won’t come until 2012.
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Study: Death-grip antenna problems unique to iPhone 4
A new study of the iPhone 4’s antenna problems revealed that the issues are unique to the iPhone 4
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Poll: Is there still a place for dedicated e-readers like the Kindle 3?
Amazon unveiled the Kindle 3 this week with a few minor improvements and a much better price tag. But do customers still want dedicated e-readers? Take the poll.
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Comcast exec: NBCU deal will accelerate 'anytime, anywhere television'
Comcast is determined to get “anytime, anywhere television” right and the NBC Universal acquisition is designed to accelerate the application of innovation without worrying about...
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Will cloud computing economics add up for Microsoft?
Microsoft at its financial analyst meeting made the case for being a cloud computing leader and argued that its economic prospects will improve as information technology shifts to an on-demand model.
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Smart Planet: Fighting deadly parasitic infections with a UV flashlight
Using fluorescent dyes and a simple ultraviolet flashlight, Ellen Beaulieu, a medicinal chemist at SRI International has created a test to detect parasitic infections in human beings.
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Court rejects class action status for Intel antitrust suit
Intel today won a key ruling in an antitrust case when a Delaware court rejected the request to grant the case class action status, according to reports. Intel is accused of wrongfully offering...
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Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 potential marketing pitch: 'I'm a phone too'
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave analysts a glimpse at the software giant’s marketing around Windows Phone 7. The plan: Let Windows Phone 7 ride shotgun with Windows 7. The punchline:...
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Real cuts losses amid restructuring, still misses analyst estimates
Real Networks’ second-quarter loss was narrowed but the company, which is in the midst of a restructuring, still missed Wall Street’s estimates.
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McAfee acquires tenCube; Second quarter mixed bag
A day after Symantec’s earnings bombed, smaller rival McAfee reported a mixed second quarter and acquired a mobile security firm, tenCube.
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Coinstar sees growth in DVD business; adds Blu-Ray to Redbox offerings
Coinstar says the DVD business is continuing to grow and, as such, it has raised its financial forecast for the rest of the year and announced the addition of Blu-Ray disks to its Redbox DVD...
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DOJ sues Oracle over GSA contract
The Department of Justice has sued Oracle for defrauding the government out of “hundreds of millions of dollars in sales.”
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YouTube increases video upload limit to 15 minutes
YouTube is upping its game - and video time limits - for non-partner customwers.
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Microsoft's stump speech: We're leading the cloud parade
Microsoft’s operating chief Kevin Turner set out to position the software giant as a cloud computing leader with a broad portfolio that rivals such as Google, Salesforce.com, Amazon and...
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Best Buy, Clearwire team up on 4G
Best Buy and Clearwire are teaming up to offer 4G connectivity beginning in 2011.
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Top 25 Android apps: The best of the best
Android now has over 70,000 apps to choose from. TechRepublic’s Jason Hiner shows you 25 of the best ones to download.
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IBM picks up data compression company Storwize
IBM has acquired Storwize, a privately held company that focuses on data compression.
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Citrix: Desktop virtualization is snowballing
Citrix reported a better-than-expected second quarter in part because of its XenDesktop virtualization software.
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Motorola's second quarter better than expected
Motorola reported a better-than-expected second quarter and said its enterprise mobility business did well. The company also said that it expects to gain smartphone market share with the Droid X...
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