John Paczkowski in News on November 3, 2011 at 11:35 am PT
You can have my Global Village Teleport when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 11, 2011 at 5:30 am PT
The good news for angry HuffPo bloggers who want to get paid for their unpaid work: AOL volunteers made the same argument during Bubble 1.0 and ended up winning! The bad news: It took a lawsuit, and more than a decade, to extract the cash. (And the HuffPo writers may not have a case, anyway.)
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 31, 2011 at 3:50 pm PT
The last significant Internet connection in Egypt has now gone down. The world has responded with numerous clever workarounds to help the people there get their messages out.
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Drake Martinet, Intern, All Things Digital in News on May 28, 2010 at 12:05 pm PT
This week, we coffee’d at Coupa Cafe on the Stanford University campus to interview Ben Zotto. He’s the mind behind Cocoa Box Design, the app company responsible for Penultimate, a sleeper hit at the iPad App Store.
Ben is developing popular software that is just a little outside of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s vision for his “magical” device. That doesn’t seem to bother Zotto though.
Kara Swisher in News on March 11, 2010 at 11:33 am PT
Finally, after much advance leakage, the Federal Communications Commission will unveil its National Broadband Plan on Tuesday, March 16.
The two key questions about the effort to get the United States up to speed, so to speak, with decent digital access: Will it be toothless or not and will there be any money to pay for it, given the cash-strapped federal government?
And, of course, will the greedy telecoms quash the plan if it is too helpful to consumers?
Peter Kafka in Media on December 9, 2009 at 10:15 am PT
AOL is about to cut ties to Time Warner, and CEO Tim Armstrong has been making his case to current and potential investors. Here’s one last pitch, delivered to the crowd at the annual UBS Media and Communications Conference in New York.
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Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's Tech Trader Daily in News on February 5, 2009 at 2:49 pm PT
Earthlink is an odd company: It continues to generate more and more cash from the terminally ill (and steadily shrinking) dial-up Internet access business. Its coffers are bursting at the seams. Judging by the company’s valuation, the Street doesn’t see a whole lot of value in the core business. But there certainly is intrigue over the cash–including whether the company will eventually buy the AOL dial-up access business.
Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on August 13, 2008 at 5:00 pm PT
Walt Mossberg answers readers’ questions about how to get a new Windows computer with the XP operating system, small portable radios, and the functions of MailBug.
John Paczkowski in News on August 13, 2008 at 4:59 am PT
An estimated 15 percent of Americans still use dial-up to connect to the Internet. And they might as well. Because according to a new study by the Communication Workers of America, the typical real-time Internet connection speed in the United States isn’t that much faster.
