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Does Technology Reduce Social Isolation?

With hundreds of daily updates from friends on Facebook and Twitter, do people actually feel closer to each other? In fact, people who regularly use digital technologies are more social than the average American and more likely to visit parks and cafes ...

From STEFANIE OLSEN, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc,  Fox News Channel,  Google Inc.,  University of Pennsylvania

Educational Video Games Mix Cool With Purpose

One of KC Phillips’s favorite video games is the Xbox shoot-’em-up Halo, because, he says, his dad taught him how to play it when he was younger. Now 15 and a high school sophomore in Madison, Wis., KC views the game with a more discerning eye. Last ...

From STEFANIE OLSEN, The New York Times,  1 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Activision, Inc.,  Nintendo,  Food Lion,  NASA

Will The Digital Divide Close By Itself?

On the subject of tech and education, academics and executives are worried about many divides. There’s the growing divide between kids who have access to technology and those who don’t; kids who participate in creating content with technology at home ...

From STEFANIE OLSEN, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Reed Hastings,  Sergey Brin,  Facebook Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation

People spend real money for virtual goods

and it has worked with corporations like Ben & Jerry's Homemade, which gave away 500,000 virtual ice cream cones in April as part of a Free Cone Day promotion in stores. Want to walk a mile in Elvis Presley's blue suede shoes? It'll cost you 50 cents. ...

From STEFANIE OLSEN NEW YORK TIMES, The San Jose Mercury News,  15 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Elvis Presley,  Snoop Dogg,  Justin Timberlake,  Facebook Inc.,  Paris Hilton

How strife in Wall Street is set to hit tech

Troubles at two major Wall Street securities firms on Monday will have ripple effects that could stifle mergers and acquisitions in the technology industry and further dampen the market for initial public offerings. Or so say financial pundits who are ...

From STEFANIE OLSEN, ZDNet UK,  16 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Lehman Brothers,  Merrill Lynch,  Bank of America,  Dow Jones,  Cisco Systems, Inc.

US flights grounded by failure of '70s-era' tech

In the wake of a computer failure that caused delays for 646 US flights on Tuesday, the US Federal Aviation Administration plans to upgrade its decades-old technology for flight-plan processing and potentially add a third backup system. Subsequently, ...

From STEFANIE OLSEN, ZDNet UK,  28 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Ex-Yahoo execs take on brand ad network

For the past six years, the multi-billion-dollar breadwinner of the online advertising business have been those well-placed text links that appear on Google and other search engines. Now, executives and investors want the money to starting pouring in ...

From STEFANIE OLSEN, ZDNet UK,  26 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Microsoft makes a Move on web TV

Redmond ventures further into the video stream Microsoft has invested in internet TV company Move Networks for an undisclosed sum, in a move to broaden the reach of its video streaming technology. The investment comes roughly five months after the two ...

From STEFANIE OLSEN, Silicon.com,  26 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  ESPN,  Cisco Systems, Inc.,  Comcast,  John Edwards

Microsoft invests in online TV firm Move Networks

Microsoft has invested in internet TV company Move Networks for an undisclosed sum, in a move to broaden the reach of its video-streaming technology. The investment comes roughly five months after the two companies struck a strategic partnership. In ...

From STEFANIE OLSEN, ZDNet UK,  26 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  ESPN,  Comcast,  Cisco Systems, Inc.,  John Edwards

Tackling the challenges of tech innovation

'Innovation' has been thrown around so often in technology circles that to some, it's a four-letter word. At one tech company, innovation can mean bringing a dazzling new product to store shelves. At another, it can translate to a tiny new button on a ...

From STEFANIE OLSEN, ZDNet UK,  18 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  eBay Inc.,  Google Inc.

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