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Viral Graphic: Put Down That Computer (It’s Killing You)

Kara Swisher in Media on March 5 at 12:59 am PT

Go back to sleep.

Weathering the Storm, RIM Makes Its Business Case in Boston

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 13, 2011 at 7:11 am PT

Mobilized is in Beantown Thursday to hear Research In Motion talk about its plans for the enterprise. The event, at the Marriott Copley Place downtown, kicked off around 10 am ET. Here are the highlights.

Facebook Is Best U.S. Place to Work (According to Its Employees)

Liz Gannes in Social on December 14, 2010 at 9:01 pm PT

Facebook employees think their company is a great place to work. In fact, among users of the jobs site Glassdoor, the social networking powerhouse was the top-ranked U.S. employer for 2010.

Dear Zuck: The Apple iPad Is Mobile (So Sorry!)

Kara Swisher in News on November 5, 2010 at 6:01 am PT

Because while those who live in the echo chamber of Silicon Valley are frequently wrong, but never in doubt, a gigantic amount of time is spent being more technical than realistic. And by “technical,” I mean annoyingly detailed in making a point as to completely obfuscate the essence of anything. Let me explain.

Liveblogging the Geo-Location Announcement: Oh, the Facebook "Places" You'll Go

Kara Swisher in News on August 18, 2010 at 4:28 pm PT

BoomTown motored on down the lovely Highway 280 in Silicon Valley to Facebook to hear execs talk about a new geo-location feature the powerful social networking site is rolling out. The new name of the service, which will be deeply integrated into its current update system, as I reported earlier, will be “Places.” There will be no games, no mayors and no special discounts either in Facebook Places–just plain and simple checking in and, presumably, taking names.

AT&T Responds to BoomTown Privacy Breach Via Email (Oh, the Irony!)

Kara Swisher in News on June 11, 2010 at 7:53 am PT

Earlier today, I wrote a piece about how I was one of the 114,000 AT&T customers whose email and device identity numbers had been easily exposed earlier this week, via a flaw in the way the company registered the Apple iPad 3G for cellular access. I also complained that I had yet to hear from the telecom giant. And lo and behold, it responded. Regrets? AT&T has a few.

ComScore’s Gift to Web Publishers: (Almost) Free Traffic [UPDATED]

Peter Kafka in Media on January 22, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

Web publishers love to grouse about comScore’s traffic estimates. But many of them are much happier these days: A new measurement system is giving some sites a dramatic boost in Web visitors.

How to Kill the Rest of Your Friday

Peter Kafka in Media on July 10, 2009 at 12:25 pm PT

Let’s be honest. You’re not getting anything productive done with the rest of the day. Why not sit back and watch a couple of interesting ads before the weekend starts?

Jobs Back on the Job?

John Paczkowski in News on June 22, 2009 at 5:37 pm PT

A quote from Steve Jobs in an Apple press release this morning and a handful of media reports claiming he has been spotted at Apple HQ over the past few days are raising hopes that the CEO may have officially returned to work.