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White MacBook, It Was Good Living With You

Lauren Goode in News on February 10 at 10:16 am PT

The white MacBook is (now really, truly) dead.

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Raspberry Pi, a Credit-Card-Sized Computer, Set to Launch

Lauren Goode in News on December 28, 2011 at 8:33 am PT

The Raspberry Pi, a credit-card sized computer that plugs directly into your TV via an HDMI input, is launching next month, following five years of research and development. Developed in the U.K. by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, the $35 version of the device runs Linux, has a 700MHZ ARM 11 processor and 256MB of RAM, and features the first-person multiplayer video game Quake 3 Arena; the $25 version has similar specs, but with 128MB of RAM. Videogame veteran David Braben, the brains behind the Pi, has been quoted as saying he originally created the Pi for educational use.

Got Broadband? Not Sure? There's a Map for That.

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 17, 2011 at 2:30 pm PT

It took two years and $350 million, but America now has a detailed map showing where all its broadband Internet connections are and where they are not.

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Schools Chancellor Klein to Join News Corp.

Barbara Martinez and Michael Howard Saul, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 9, 2010 at 3:23 pm PT

New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein is resigning to join News Corp., ending an eight-year reign at the helm of the nation’s largest school system. In his place, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is expected to announce Cathie Black, chairwoman of Hearst Magazines.

Amazon’s Big, Expensive Kindle DX You Didn’t Buy Now Cheaper, Blacker

Peter Kafka in Media on July 1, 2010 at 5:18 am PT

A year ago, the Kindle DX seemed like it might be a big deal. And then we never heard about it again. Will a price drop, a new color and a better screen change that? Doubtful.

Amazon's Big, Expensive Kindle DX You Didn't Buy Now Cheaper, Blacker

Peter Kafka in Media on July 1, 2010 at 5:18 am PT

A year ago, the Kindle DX seemed like it might be a big deal. And then we never heard about it again. Will a price drop, a new color and a better screen change that? Doubtful.

Online Help for Parents Who Volunteer

Pui-wing Tam in Personal Technology on June 2, 2010 at 6:03 pm PT

By Pui-wing Tam.

Parents are opting for an online solution to organizing volunteer class time. And a host of volunteering and calendar apps have popped up on the Web to help them.

You Ask, Jimmy Wales Answers: A Crowdsourced Interview With Mr. Wikipedia

Peter Kafka in Media on March 11, 2010 at 3:51 am PT

Jimmy Wales’s Wikipedia relies almost entirely on free contributions from users to create a mammoth Web encyclopedia. What if an enterprising/lazy blogger used the same technique to interview Wales?

Open Book Alliance Throws Book at Google

John Paczkowski in News on August 26, 2009 at 1:07 pm PT

The Open Book Alliance–or “Sour Grapes Alliance,” as Google likes to call it–formally launched Wednesday afternoon, debuting a new Web site, as well as the manifesto with which it is challenging Google’s settlement with authors and publishers.

No Matter How Hard You Try, You Can’t Get Apple to Say Anything Nice About a Netbook

Peter Kafka in Media on July 21, 2009 at 3:32 pm PT

This is now an Apple earnings-call tradition: Analysts try their hardest to convince Apple executives to express interest in the booming market for cheap netbooks and Apple executives make it perfectly clear how much disdain they have for netbooks. But an $800 iTablet? That’s something else altogether…