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WIRED MAGAZINE: 16.03

Tech Biz  :  IT  

Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business
By Chris Anderson 02.25.08 | 12:00 AM

FEATURE

Webmail Windfall

How Can Air Travel Be Free?

How Can a CD Be Free?

How Can a DVR Be Free?

How Can Directory Assitance Be Free?

How-To Wiki
How To [...]

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Google tries to sneak “Team Edition” suite past IT help desk
By Joel Hruska | Published: February 07, 2008 - 01:19PM CT
February is turning out to be a busy month for Google’s corporate IT initiatives. Earlier this week, the search giant announced a new, corporate-focused, suite of security and spam-filtering software suites under the “Powered [...]

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Google named worst privacy offender in study
By Nate Anderson | Published: June 11, 2007 - 05:51AM CT
A new report puts Google in last place when it comes to privacy protection. Despite recent moves to anonymize server logs and other pro-privacy gestures, Privacy International called the company “an endemic threat to privacy.”

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Google to anonymize logs in a nod to privacy advocates
By Nate Anderson | Published: March 15, 2007 - 07:15AM CT
In its continuing quest not to be evil (or, at least, to be less evil), Google today announced an overhaul of its privacy policy. User searches will no longer be tagged indefinitely with an IP address [...]

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In this excerpt from The Age of Spiritual Machines (Viking, 1999), Ray Kurzweil describes his work in speech recognition.
I also started Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, Inc. in 1982 with the goal of creating a voice activated word processor. This is a technology that is hungry for MIPs (i.e., computer speed) and Megabytes (i.e., memory), so [...]

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AUGUST 20, 2007

 

 

 

THE FUTURE OF WORK — MANDEL ON ECONOMICS

Which Way To The Future?
Globalization and technology are drastically changing how we do our jobs—and that’s both a promise and a problem

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The “Future of Work” is hardly a new topic. In fact, over the past quarter century, at least 20 books [...]

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

 

 

 

NEWS
What in the Web Are They Thinking?
Believe it or not, the crazy sums tech and media giants are paying for startups may ultimately make sense

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In Silicon Valley, they love to say it’s not about the money. Yet in late September privately held online social network Facebook, with an [...]

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Internet-Era Magazine Is Revived to Look at the Future

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By BRAD STONE
Published: February 4, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO — One of the signature publications of the first dot-com boom is being reincarnated.

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Should Yahoo buy AOL, sell out to Microsoft, or go it alone?
By Anders Bylund | Published: October 30, 2006 - 03:11PM CT
Fortune magazine is running a bit of speculation on Yahoo’s fate, with a number of tantalizing options outlined for CEO Terry Semel to pursue. [...]

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Wikipedia founder to create user-driven search engine
By Ryan Paul | Published: December 25, 2006 - 05:51PM CT
Wikia, a for-profit corporation created by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is preparing to launch a search engine that will leverage the user-driven model that has contributed to the massive [...]

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