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Health Help: Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz Talks About New CareZone Start-Up (Video)

Kara Swisher in Social on February 14 at 9:01 pm PT

Here’s a very intriguing new social networking site called CareZone, aimed at helping people managing chronic health care issues. (I can tell you, based on my own recent scare, it’s needed.)

Ricoh Builds a Tablet Meant to Get Some Paper Out of Your Work Life

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on June 1, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Ricoh, the Japanese office equipment concern, has an idea for an office tablet. And it’s not quite like any other tablet you’ve seen on the market yet.

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Early Adopter: Is the Future of User Experience Design Made of Paper and Polish?

Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on February 21, 2011 at 12:10 am PT

Everyone can move a sticky note. This is the concept of the trio of creators of UXPin, a paper prototyping kit for mocking up a Web site before a single line of code is ever written. It has become popular with designers who value speed and iteration–and, now, they’ll be able to UXPin-up a whole new set of interfaces.

Yahoo's Shine Editor-in-Chief Departs for Condé Nast's Lucky Magazine

Kara Swisher in News on September 8, 2010 at 10:06 am PT

As Yahoo seeks to sort out its women’s strategy online, Brandon Holley–the editor-in-chief of its main women-focused site, Shine–is leaving for a job with the same title at Condé Nast’s Lucky magazine.

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Almost Famous: Ben Zotto of Cocoa Box Design

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.

The FCC's National Broadband Paper Plan Gets a BoomTown Tour of the Nation's Capital!

Kara Swisher in News on March 20, 2010 at 12:19 am PT

When BoomTown went to Washington, D.C., last week to visit the Federal Communications Commission on the occasion of its release of the National Broadband Plan, I was actually given a paper version in a giant binder. Yes, at hundreds of pages, a dead-tree copy of a federal scheme to make the United States more digital! So, natch, I gave it a tour of the nation’s capital.

Tweet the People: Twitter VC Wilson and Federal CTO Chopra Talk Policy in D.C.

Kara Swisher in News on March 17, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

Ms. BoomTown went to Washington, D.C., this week to moderate a panel that looked at the future of the digital arena for an event marking the 25th anniversary of the .com domain. Surprisingly, the panelists did not talk about geo-location jet packs and augmented reality for everyone. Instead, due to their proximity to pols and government bureaucrats, they went wonkish.

As Predicted, a Not-Terrible Quarter for the New York Times: Print Ads Shrink Less, and the Web Actually Grows

Peter Kafka in Media on February 10, 2010 at 5:55 am PT

A nice Q4 for the New York Times, at least by newspaper standards: Revenue shrank, but not as badly as in the past, and operating costs continued to come down. But that pay wall is still going up.

Pint-Size Peripherals Scan or Print at a Price

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on February 9, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT

Katherine Boehret looks at two scanners that are portable and stylish, but at a price.