The Internet Gets Physical (Steve Lohr/New York Times)
Steve Lohr / New York Times:The Internet Gets Physical — THE Internet likes you, really likes you. It offers you so much, just a mouse click or finger tap away. Go Christmas shopping, find restaurants, locate partying friends, tell the world what you’re up to. Some of the finest minds in computer science …
With the Bing Search Engine, Microsoft Plays the Underdog (Steve Lohr/New York Times)
Steve Lohr / New York Times:With the Bing Search Engine, Microsoft Plays the Underdog — MIKE NICHOLS has a poster on his office wall. It shows the young Muhammad Ali glaring down at a fallen Sonny Liston, the bruising heavyweight who had seemed invincible — until Ali beat him, in 1964, in one of the [...]
When Innovation, Too, Is Made in China (Steve Lohr/New York Times)
Steve Lohr / New York Times:When Innovation, Too, Is Made in China — AS a national strategy, China is trying to build an economy that relies on innovation rather than imitation. Clearly, its leaders recognize that being the world’s low-cost workshop for assembling the breakthrough products designed elsewhere …
You Want My Personal Data? Reward Me for It (Steve Lohr/New York Times)
Steve Lohr / New York Times:You Want My Personal Data? Reward Me for It — LIFE, as they say, imitates art. And the way things work commercially today across much of the Web recalls that chapter in “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” where Tom cajoles his guileless friends into whitewashing Aunt Polly’s fence.
Redrawing the Route to Online Privacy (Steve Lohr/New York Times)
Steve Lohr / New York Times:Redrawing the Route to Online Privacy — ON the Internet, things get old fast. One prime candidate for the digital dustbin, it seems, is the current approach to protecting privacy on the Internet. — It is an artifact of the 1990s, intended as a light-touch policy to nurture innovation in [...]
