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Interview With Verizon on Social Media

Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:29 PM EST

For a research paper that's worth 30% of my final grade in my Argument and Research course, I interviewed several companies on their use of social media. My most enjoyable interview was the phone interview I conducted with Verizon.

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technology, interview, social-media, verizon

My Interview With New Yorker Writer Ken Auletta About His New Book, Googled: The End of The World As We Know It

Fri Nov 6, 2009 12:32 PM EST

By Scott (Scoop) Butki

I have been reading Ken Auletta's pieces for many years, usually in the New Yorker, where he is its resident media critic, but also a few of his books.

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technology, google, sbutki-interview, googled

Meghan McCain: If your brain were working as hard as your breasts...

Fri Oct 16, 2009 12:58 PM EDT

By Brian Ford

Word on the street? Meghan McCain has big breasts. She's also something of a homebody, spending her nights in comfort clothes (sweatpants and a tank top) while perusing the latest bio on the life of famed pop-artist, Andy Warhol. How do we know this? Twitter, of course.

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technology, mccain, conservative, twitter, picture, controversy, boobs, breasts, meghan-mccain, national-breast-cancer-awareness-month

Deus Ex Machina

Tue Sep 8, 2009 8:08 AM EDT

By Steve Mock

At a most fundamental level, our computers are simple and not smart at all. They can only do one, solid thing; make a determination as to whether something is true or false. That's all a computer has ever been able to do.

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technology, binary, logic, difference-engine, choice, free-will, right, wrong

Cable Internet sector will not rescue Hollywood

Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:50 AM EDT

By Paul William Tenny

I'd love nothing more than to be able to link to this transcript (after reading it myself) so that I could give better context to this post, but the only reference I found for it was on Deadline Hollywood, so you'll have to settle for mostly out-of-context quotes for the time be …

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entertainment, hollywood, comcast, at

Is that Piece of Email Legit?

Tue Jul 7, 2009 3:38 PM EDT

By rickace (Clipped by tyler)

We use the Internet to correspond with banks, credit card companies, Ebay, PayPal and many other companies. The bad guys know this and devise schemes to trick us into revealing account numbers, passwords, Social Security numbers, and anything else they can defraud us with.

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technology, email, email-header, scammer

Are Some Palm Pre Screens Defective? Multiple Reports Indicate an Emerging Problem

Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:31 PM EDT

By Brian Ford

Palm USA's recently released touchscreen Palm Pre represents the companies best last hope for a resurgence, due to strong competition from both Apple's iPhone and Research in Motion's Blackberry line of smart phones.

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technology, palm, pre, scratch, screen, smartphone, iphone, crack, phone, defect