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- Going wireless all the way to the Web
Lashay Johnson and Simon Casselle walk along the U Street corridor with their cellphones outstretched like urban compasses guiding their way. Johnson stares at MapQuest on her Blackberry Tour, and Casselle is looking at a list of local businesses served up on his LG Chocolate.
Wireless - Business - Telecommunications - Equipment - Data Communications - Ballmer says Microsoft intends to become industry leader in cloud computing
Microsoft got nothing but grief when it killed its Kin smartphone this month, a decision that looked like a misstep for the software giant as it struggles to stay on the cutting edge.
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- How a business grew out of a failed social-media app
In early 2009, Foursquare's chief executive sashayed out of South by Southwest with 2,500 users and enough chatter to launch a rocket. Social Bomb's founders, meanwhile, left deflated after the launch of their product, Paparazzi -- another mobile location app, with a photo-sharing tool -- which d...
Business - Social media - Internet marketing - Marketing and Advertising - Social network - Google compromise pays off with renewal of license in China
SHANGHAI -- Google said Friday that its license to operate in China had been renewed, a surprise announcement that ended weeks of speculation over whether the Internet giant would be forced to abandon the world's single largest market of online users.
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- Is an Internet sales tax coming?
A movement is slowly building in Washington to banish one of the biggest perks of shopping online: not paying sales tax.
United States - Tax - Accounting - Business - Sales and Use Tax - Mr. Zuckerberg goes to Washington
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg made his first trip to the Hill on Tuesday, meeting with Republican members of the Senate's high-tech task force and others to talk about Internet privacy and other tech issues.
Washington - United States - Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook - History - iPhone 4 review
The Post's Rob Pegoraro unveils the iPhone 4, compares it to some of the other top models on the market and tests out its features.
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Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.) said Wednesday that the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission should drop his push to re-regulate broadband lines.
United States - Government - Cecilia Kang - Facebook - Washington Post - White House proposal would ease FBI access to records of Internet activity
The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an individual's Internet activity without a court order if agents deem the information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation.
White House - United States - President - Government - Executive Branch - Va. teacher Kevin Ricks charged in federal court with child-porn possession
Former Manassas teacher Kevin Ricks was charged in federal court Wednesday on child pornography counts in what officials said was an effort to ensure he stays in jail after a plea hearing Thursday on state charges.
Child pornography - Crime - Sex Offenses - Law - United States - Analysts: Jail-breaking law change will have limited impact
The impact of the Copyright Office's cell phone jail-breaking decision probably won't have a big practical effect, analysts say.
Law - Business - Prison - Tom Segev - IPhone - Montgomery County crime report
These were among incidents reported by Montgomery County police. For information, call 240-773-5030.
United States - Counties - Montgomery - Maryland - Ohio - Fairfax County crime report
These were among incidents reported by the Fairfax County Police Department. For information, call 703-246-2253.
United States - Virginia - Fairfax - Counties - Fairfax County - Anne Arundel County crime report
These were among incidents reported by the Anne Arundel County Police Department. For information, call 410-222-8050.
Anne Arundel - United States - Maryland - Counties - Anne Arundel County Maryland - Alexandria and Arlington crime report
These were among incidents recently reported by the Alexandria Police Department. For more information, call 703-838-4636 or visit http://www.alexandriava.gov/police .
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- Anniversary of ADA brings presidential order to hire more disabled workers
As the country marks the 20th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act this week, the Obama administration and Congress are taking steps to give the disabled greater access to federal jobs and technology.
ADA - Programming - Languages - Disability - Law - Consumer confidence down; home prices up
Job worries drove U.S. consumer confidence in July to its lowest reading since February, according to data released Tuesday. One in six people said they were expecting lower income in the next six months, underscoring the precarious state of the economic recovery.
Home - Consumer Information - United States - Advocacy and Protection - Consumer Confidence Index - Reports find technical divide among foreign- and U.S.-born Latinos
Young Latinos born in the United States are far more likely to use text messages, social networking sites and other digital methods to communicate with their friends than their foreign-born parents or peers, according to two reports released Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center.
Latino - United States - Business - Government - Education - Momentum builds for federal rules on Internet privacy
Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Communications Subcommittee, said Tuesday that he will introduce an online privacy bill that will create standards for how consumer data is collected and used for marketing. It will also give users more control over how their Internet activity and pro...
Privacy - Security - Protocols - Google - Facebook - E.U. opens two antitrust probes on IBM
The European Union opened two antitrust probes of IBM on Monday, accusing the U.S. technology giant of abusing its dominant position in the mainframe computer market. One investigation stems from complaints by IBM competitors T3 and Turbo Hercules, who say that IBM "shuts out providers of emulation...
IBM - European Union - Operating system - Microsoft - European Commission - When storms zap power, digital nomads know where to get their work done
You work from home and there's no power. You work from an office and there's no power. You are a worker without a work station.
Technology - Nomad - Google - Berlin - Language - Post Tech: 'Jailbreaking' the iPhone
Changes in federal copyright laws will allow users of Apple's iPhone and other smart phones to lawfully download applications that aren't approved by the phone maker or carrier, according to the Library of Congress.
iPhone - Jailbreak - Smartphone - Handhelds - Apple - Wikileaks takes new approach in latest release of documents
Wikileaks' decision to transfer tens of thousands of raw classified field reports on the Afghan war to the New York Times and two European news organizations reflects the growing strength and sophistication of the small nonprofit Web site, founded three years ago to fight what it considers excess...
Wikileaks - United States - Julian Assange - Classified information - Afghanistan - Federal Register relaunching Web site to make it easier to navigate
Eager to boost public participation and awareness of the federal rule-making process, the Obama administration will relaunch the Federal Register's Web site Monday with a design resembling a newspaper Web site.
Federal Register - United States - Education - Colleges and Universities - Law - Kevin Ricks' career as teacher, tutor shows pattern of abuse that goes back decades
Kevin Ricks was a gregarious, well-traveled English teacher at Osbourn High School, a Walt Whitman devotee who was so popular that a photo of him in class was chosen to fill the opening page of the yearbook. A writer and photographer himself, Ricks would walk the halls of the Manassas school with...
Teacher - Tutor - Education - Violence and Abuse - Products and Services - Paul Rosen dies; helped develop high-speed modem
Paul Rosen, an electrical engineer who in the mid-1950s helped develop the high-speed modem, spurring revolutionary progress in the nascent industry of telecommunications, died of congestive heart failure July 20 at his cottage in West Bath, Maine. He was 88.
Modem - Business - Data Communications - Linux - Industrial Goods and Services - Cellphone industry group CTIA sues San Francisco over radiation ordinance
First, the cellphone industry told San Francisco it wouldn't host its annual trade show there again. Now, it's suing.
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- The case for breaking up Washington -- and scattering government across America
Americans are angry at Washington, and it's not hard to see why. Not only does the federal government seem more ineffectual than ever in the face of ongoing economic hardship, but the capital has so far coasted through the downturn relatively unscathed.
Washington - United States - Business and Economy - Miami - Colton Harris-Moore - Apple delays white iPhone 4 again; you don't want it anyway
We may see the iPhone 4 on a carrier besides AT&T before we see it in white. This morning, Apple announced its second delay to the white version of its smartphone:
IPhone - Apple - Smartphones - Handhelds - iPhone 4 - As smartphones flood the market, here's how to avoid falling for the flavor of the month
Twice this year, I've had a chance to review the Phone of the Month, then failed to take advantage of the opportunity.
Smartphone - Nokia - IPhone - Home - Handhelds - How the U.S. Postal Service can save itself
The U.S. Postal Service should develop a workable plan for the digital age.
U.S. Postal Service - Government - United States - United States Postal Service - Independent - Flipboard iPad app goes from fascination to mockery in a snap
A nifty new iPad application called Flipboard has gone from fascination to mockery at startup speed.
IPad - Twitter - Facebook - Magazine - Social media - Faster Forward: A lunch date with Yelp
If you're going to talk shop with two Yelp executives over lunch, how do you pick the restaurant?
Yelp - United States - Food - Business and Economy - Shopping - David Warren, inventor of 'black box' flight data recorder, dies at 85
David Warren, 85, an Australian scientist who invented the flight data recorder, the so-called "black box" that has helped solve airplane crashes and has improved airline safety around the world, died July 19 at a nursing home in Melbourne, Australia. The cause of death was not reported.
Black box (transportation) - Winds - Music - Woodwinds - Arts - Foreign companies in China sound off on business policies
BEIJING -- The heads of some leading U.S. and European multinationals have publicly questioned recently whether new Chinese policies and regulations are making China a more difficult place for foreign firms to do business.
China - Asia - Business and Economy - United States - Business - Facebook hangs up '500 million served' sign
I guess that whole "Quit Facebook Day" thing didn't really pan out: This morning, Facebook announced that it now has 500 million active users.
Facebook - Social network - Mark Zuckerberg - Online Communities - Google - Stop fondling your phone on camera
I'm sorry to be so graphic, but this has to be said.
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