Bid for Same-Day Delivery Taps the Smartphone Boom (Amir Efrati/Wall Street Journal)
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:Bid for Same-Day Delivery Taps the Smartphone Boom — Numerous start-ups have tried to go after the Holy Grail of e-commerce—delivering things to people’s homes and offices on the same day they ordered them—and have failed. — Postmates Inc., a San Francisco Internet start-up that launched … internet – Techmeme [...]
The Steve Jobs Model for Education Reform (Rupert Murdoch/Wall Street Journal)
Rupert Murdoch / Wall Street Journal:The Steve Jobs Model for Education Reform — If we can engage a child’s imagination, there’s no limit to what he or she can learn. — These days everyone is for education reform. The question is which approach is best. I favor the Steve Jobs model. — In 1984 Steve [...]
Siri Service on Apple’s iPhone 4S Talks Back With Humor (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Wall Street Journal)
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:Siri Service on Apple’s iPhone 4S Talks Back With Humor — New Devices Dish Out Sarcasm, Tell Jokes; ‘Two iPhones Walk Into a Bar’ — Now even your phone talks back. — Matt Legend Gemmell, a software designer from Edinburgh, got a new Apple Inc. iPhone on Friday and [...]
Decoding Our Chatter (Robert Lee Hotz/Wall Street Journal)
Robert Lee Hotz / Wall Street Journal:Decoding Our Chatter — Want to monitor an earthquake, track political activity or predict the ups and downs of the stock market? Researchers have found a bonanza of real-time data in the torrential flow of Twitter feeds. — When Virginia’s magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit last August …
LG Display Slashes Investment Plan (Jung-Ah Lee/Wall Street Journal)
Jung-Ah Lee / Wall Street Journal:LG Display Slashes Investment Plan — SEOUL—Flat-panel maker LG Display Co. on Monday slashed its capital expenditure target for 2012 to a three-year low, the latest indication that demand for flat-screen TVs and personal computers is set to remain sluggish for some time to come.
In Censorship Move, Iran Plans Its Own, Private Internet (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:In Censorship Move, Iran Plans Its Own, Private Internet — An Iranian engineer who helped design and run the country’s Internet filters says he subtly undermined some censorship until fleeing into exile — Iran is taking steps toward an aggressive new form of censorship …
Google Is No. 1 on List Of Desired Employers (Joe Light/Wall Street Journal)
Joe Light / Wall Street Journal:Google Is No. 1 on List Of Desired Employers — One in four young professionals wants to work at Google Inc., according to a survey by Universum, a consulting firm that helps companies improve their attractiveness to prospective employees. — Nearly 25% of survey respondents picked Google …
Google Takes Heat Over App Security – Wall Street Journal
to do more to secure its online store for smartphone applications. The company behind the now ubiquitous Android operating system came under fire after computer-security experts last week uncovered more than 50 malicious applications that were uploaded to …
Animation Nation (Ellen Gamerman/Wall Street Journal)
Ellen Gamerman / Wall Street Journal:Animation Nation — Quickly made computer-generated cartoons are attracting millions of viewers online. Now, corporations, advertisers and Hollywood executives are taking notice. — Last fall, television actor Richard Ruccolo sat down to make an animated movie about life in Hollywood.
Apple’s New iPad in Production (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:Apple’s New iPad in Production — Apple Inc. has started production of a new version of its iPad tablet computer, said people familiar with the matter. — The new device will be thinner, lighter and will come with a faster processor, more memory and a more powerful graphics processor, said the people familiar [...]
