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Say It Loud: ATD Relaunches the “Voices” Section

Kara Swisher in News on April 23 at 6:04 am PT

Today, we relaunch a fresh, new “Voices” section to bring you even more writing and information from outside sources. Offering six regular features, Voices will be run by senior editor Beth Callaghan.

Dancing Queen: After Meeting With Microsoft Last Week, Yahoo Is Next on Hulu’s Sales Card

Kara Swisher in Media on July 5, 2011 at 12:05 pm PT

Here’s a handy helper for those following the fate of the Hulu premium online video service, whose noisy efforts to sell itself have gotten a lot of attention of late: “In preliminary talks” = “hawking itself to one of a half dozen big moneybag tech companies who will visit with Hulu’s bankers and management to see its presentation at Morgan Stanley’s office in Century City in Los Angeles.”

IntoNow: It's Like Shazam Plus Foursquare for TV

Liz Gannes in Social on January 31, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

IntoNow, a new iOS app launching today, identifies television programs by just hearing snippets from them.

Condé Nast Takes Another Crack at the iPad, With a Single-Serving App

Peter Kafka in Media on January 10, 2011 at 3:31 pm PT

Okay. So iPad magazine apps aren’t going to magically solve the publishing industry’s problems, after all. But that doesn’t mean publishers can’t find ways to take advantage of tablets. Maybe one-off issues, like Condé Nast Traveler’s “Best of Italy,” will work.

Second-Edition iPad–Worth the Wait?

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on January 5, 2011 at 2:36 pm PT

Walt answers readers’ questions on the second edition iPad, printer sharing and freeing up hard-drive space on a Mac.

What Will Be the Big Tweet from Twitter Event Today? A New Search Offering Would Be Nice….

Kara Swisher in News on September 14, 2010 at 5:08 am PT

Yesterday–presumably so as not to be left out of the dueling press gatherings that Apple, Google and Facebook have all had in recent weeks to show off fancy new stuff–Twitter lobbed out an an invite for an event this afternoon: So, what, oh, what are those little elves at the microblogging service going to show off? BoomTown’s hope: A new and improved tweet search.

Before the Tablet: Apple's Steve Jobs in 2004 Talks About Not Doing Another Newton (Video)

Kara Swisher in News on January 27, 2010 at 5:01 am PT

Before Steve Jobs unveils his latest and perhaps greatest creation–which is expected to be a tablet computer–later today at a massively hyped event in San Francisco, you might want to peruse this video clip, unearthed from our archives by the crack All Things Digital team, in which the legendary Apple CEO said he was glad he did not do another single-screen PDA-like device after the Newton debacle. In an interview with Walt Mossberg at the second D: All Things Digital conference in May 2004, Jobs said definitively: “I’m as proud of the products that we have not done as the ones we have done.”

Rolling Stone’s Web Failure Wasn’t So Shabby, After All. But Now What?

Peter Kafka in Media on August 31, 2009 at 1:32 pm PT

Conventional wisdom of the day: Magazine mogul Jann Wenner, the man who made his mark with Rolling Stone in the 60s and 70s, and then again with US Weekly in this decade, has blown it on the Web. And now it’s too late for him to catch up. And who knows? It may even be true. But here’s one bit of nuance to chew on: Magazine mogul Jann Wenner has made money–as in, a profit–on the Web for the last five years.

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A Data Deluge Swamps Science Historians

Robert Lee Hotz, Science Columnist, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 28, 2009 at 9:42 am PT

In a vault beneath the British Library here, Jeremy Leighton John grapples with a formidable challenge in digital life. Dr. John, the library’s first curator of eManuscripts, is working on ways to archive the deluge of computer data swamping scientists so that future generations can authenticate today’s discoveries and better understand the people who made them.

Sony Celebrates an Unhappy Birthday: The Walkman Is 30 Years Old

Peter Kafka in Media on July 1, 2009 at 3:54 am PT

The Walkman is 30 years old today, but Sony isn’t throwing the iconic gadget much of a birthday party. More of a somber memorial, really. Blame Apple.