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FIRST! CNN Blunders With Obamacare Ruling Coverage

Matt Algren — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:20:55 +0000

Dan Gillmor, author of the book Mediactive, wrote an increasingly relevant post in 2009 after botched reporting of the shooting in Fort Hood, Texas, in a call for what Harvard University’s Ethan Zuckerman calls a “Slow-News Movement.” Like many other people who’ve been burned by believing too quickly, I’ve learned to put almost all of […]

Day of Billion Dollar Buyouts: Facebook Acquires Instagram, Microsoft Buys AOL Patents

Matt Algren — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:35:11 +0000

It’s a big money day in tech news, as two separate billion dollar transactions have been announced. Early this morning, AOL announced the sale of 800 patents to Microsoft for $1.056 billion in cash. “The agreement with Microsoft represents the culmination of a robust auction process for our patent portfolio,” said Tim Armstrong, AOL’s Chairman […]

DROID News: Official Bionic Stats And DROID HD Revealed?

Jeremy Goldstone — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:00:28 +0000

Big news this week in the world of Motorola-developed Android mobile phones — official stats for the DROID Bionic were revealed in official literature and Engadget posted the first images of the long-rumored, still-in-development DROID HD. First, let’s take a look at the phone whose official name we actually know. According to a leaked Tips […]

BREAKING NEWS: Facebook Launches Skype Video, Group Chat

Yoni Gross — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:14:25 +0000

In a live event this afternoon, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a set of “awesome” new features centered on chat. He broke the announcement down into three areas: group chat, the chat interface, and video chat. Facebook has had groups available for a year, and in that time, 50 percent of its users have become […]