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Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca and Rachel KingArchive: December, 2011
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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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Andrew Nusca
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Andrew Nusca
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Andrew J. Nusca is an associate editor at ZDNet and editor of 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. He lives in his native Philadelphia with his wife, cat and Boston Terrier.
Rachel King
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Rachel King
Rachel King is a staff writer for CBS Interactive in San Francisco. Before serving as a contributing editor at ZDNet in New York City for two years, she previously worked for The Business Insider, FastCompany.com, CNN's San Francisco bureau and the U.S. Department of State. Rachel has also written for MainStreet.com, Irish America Magazine and the New York Daily News, among others. Rachel has a B.A. in Mass Communications and History from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, where she served as art director for the student magazine, Plated.
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Amazon reveals best-selling gifts of 2011, record holiday for Kindle
Amazon reveals its best-selling products of 2011, but it would seem that the Kindle was the hottest brand this holiday season.
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Verizon explains 4G outages: Parsing the IT failure transparency
Verizon’s explanation of its recent 4G outages leaves out a lot of detail that would have offered customers more transparency.
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The year in review: ZDNet's most popular posts
Here’s a look at 2011, a year where mobile dominated both the consumer and enterprise worlds.
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Beyond Amazon: E-commerce satisfaction leans to Avon, JC Penney
Amazon leads the pack. Netflix is in a tailspin and Best Buy has a lot of catching up to do.
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The year in review: SmartPlanet's Top 10 videos of 2011
Here a look at Smart Planet’s 10 most popular videos, as clicked on and watched by our viewers.
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McAfee predicts more high-profile, targeted attacks in 2012
Other major threat predictions include new hacktivist groups, spam exploiting virtual currency and digital wallets, the circulation of fake rogue certificates, and the potential for a growing...
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Windows Phone handwringing: 'Best' product doesn't (won't) win
The former GM of Windows Phone wonders why the mobile OS hasn’t been a hit. He missed a few reasons like timing, peer pressure and issues like Android forks the user doesn’t care about.
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Salesforce VP: Social enterprise revolutionizing focus of cloud computing
Salesforce.com’s head of platform research discusses the value of big data, the consumerization of IT, and how mobile devices should address collaboration concerns in 2012.
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2011 in review: ZDNet's top galleries
Windows 8 screenshots and apps were in big demand in 2011.
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Programming resources for kids 101
Scratch, Lego Mindstorm and Microsoft’s Kodu are efforts that may help stoke the programming fires in your little ones.
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Google paying Mozilla $300 million per year for search deal
Mozilla’s big reliance on Google might actually be worth it — up to the point of $300 million per year.
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Pinterest named as one of top social trends sites in 2011: report
Pinterest has emerged as one of top sites pinpointing social networking and media trends in 2011.
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BlackBerry 10 potential doubted by RIM insiders: report
Based on remarks from RIM’s co-CEOs this week, it looks like the company is pinning all of its hopes on BlackBerry 10. But not everyone else at RIM is so confident.
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Oracle top CRM vendor with Salesforce.com No. 2, says IDC
Eighteen vendors had 63 percent of the CRM market with 170 vendors splitting the rest of the category.
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eBay buys BillSafe to complement PayPal
BillSafe’s technology allows customers to pick an item to buy and then get an invoice for payment later.
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Akamai buys Cotendo for $268 million, eyes mobile cloud
Given that Akamai is a leading content delivery network (CDN) it’s clear that Cotendo’s focus on mobile services fits in well.
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Enterprise IT spending: Blips or worries headed into 2012?
Oracle, Accenture and Red Hat saw turbulence in their most recent quarters. It remains to be seen if these companies are seeing an operational blip or an enterprise demand slowdown.
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Nearly 80 percent of WordPress users are making revenue (survey)
A new survey analyzes how WordPress is being used and what these users want to see more of from the open source platform.
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Intel: Big tablet, smartphone move for 2012?
It remains to be seen if Intel can finally crack the smartphone and mobile markets, but at least some folks are becoming more optimistic.
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Another nail in the coffin for CES
Microsoft is pulling out of the Consumer Electronics Show, joining Google, Apple and Amazon on the sidelines. Here’s why it spells trouble for one of the biggest trade shows in the world.
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