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Con Artist Starred in Sting That Cost Google Millions

Thomas Catan, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 25 at 4:30 am PT

Wearing leg irons and guarded by federal agents, David Whitaker posed as an agent for online drug dealers in dozens of recorded phone calls and email exchanges with Google sales executives, spending $200,000 in government money for ads selling narcotics, steroids and other controlled substances.

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Battle of the Bands: Tech Firms Compete for Rock Stars

Ben Worthen, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 3 at 10:44 am PT

Shortly before Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Larry Ellison gave his keynote speech about a new cloud-computing effort at his annual customer conference here in October, a surprise guest came on stage: Sting.

NPR's Vivian Schiller in Better (Digital) Days: The Full D8 Video

Kara Swisher in News on March 9, 2011 at 10:21 am PT

Today, NPR CEO Vivian Schiller resigned after a series of borks–including a sting video in which the public radio’s top fundraiser insulted the Tea Party activists and the fumbled firing of commentator Juan Williams. Oh dear. Well, the former New York Times exec was pretty good at moving NPR into the digital age, at least.

"Beyond the Search Box": The White Pleather Honeypot Smackdown

Kara Swisher in News on February 1, 2011 at 11:53 am PT

Perusing AOL’s leaked damn-the-journalism-full-speed-ahead business plan, BoomTown was a little late to the Microsoft Bing event this morning called “Farsight: Beyond the Search Box.” But things had certainly been cooking with gas when I walked into the meeting room at the University of San Francisco, including allegations of cheating, honeypot stings and a whole lot of insulting of the hosts. Schweeet!

iLife Gets Better; Just Don’t Ask It to Find a Face

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on January 28, 2009 at 6:08 pm PT

Walt reviews the new features of iPhoto, GarageBand and iMovie in Apple’s iLife ’09.

Macworld ’09: Garageband "Learn to Play," "Artist Lessons"

John Paczkowski in News on January 6, 2009 at 9:43 am PT

Phil Schiller returns to the stage to explain Garageband ’09. Our team was challenged to help people learn to play a musical instrument and they came through, says Schiller. Garageband now offers a feature called “Learn to Play” which offers not just nine basic lessons for guitar and piano, but “Artist Lessons” from the likes of John Fogerty, Norah Jones and Sting.

Macworld ’09: Garageband “Learn to Play,” “Artist Lessons”