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Nick Wingfield, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on May 5, 2011 at 10:35 pm PT
Sony Corp. Chief Executive Howard Stringer apologized for a massive data breach of the company’s online game networks—the first public remarks by the top executive as Sony works to reassure its customers following the theft of personal data from more than 100 million online accounts.
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Nick Wingfield, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on May 4, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
This is the voicemail that Dan Sheeran’s tailor recently tried to leave him: “Just wanted to let you know that your pants is already done and ready for pickup,” the tailor, in accented but clear English, said in the recording. “Ok, then you can pick up your pants at Nordstrom.”
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Ethan Smith and Nick Wingfield, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 15, 2011 at 8:19 pm PT
Netflix Inc. is in advanced talks to distribute a forthcoming television series directed by David Fincher and starring Kevin Spacey, said people familiar with the talks.
If such a deal were to come to fruition it would add a new competitor to the television industry by increasing the degree to which Netflix vies with premium-cable television channels like Time Warner Inc.’s HBO.
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Nick Wingfield and Julia Angwin, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 15, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
A new version of Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer to be released Tuesday will be the first major Web browser to include a do-not-track tool that helps people keep their online habits from being monitored.
Microsoft’s decision to include the tool in Internet Explorer 9 means Google Inc. and Apple Inc. are the only big providers of browsers that haven’t yet declared their support for a do-no-track system in their products.
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Nick Wingfield, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 8, 2011 at 10:53 am PT
A San Francisco startup believes it has come up with a way to make traveling — and using travel websites — a little less agonizing.
Hipmunk, which just raised $4.2 million from a roster of online travel veterans and venture capitalists, gives users access to the familiar airline fares they’re used to on other sites.
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Nick Wingfield, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 12, 2011 at 9:05 am PT
An Israeli startup behind key parts of Microsoft’s Kinect game device is getting a fresh round of funding to help expand the use of its gesture recognition technology in electronics.
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Nick Wingfield, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 22, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
“Call of Duty: Black Ops” continued its streak of breaking sales records by passing $1 billion in global sales since the product was released Nov. 9, its publisher, Activision Blizzard, said.
