Daily Archives: April 16, 2012
The draw of ‘Draw Something’
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Age: 32 Location: Toronto “Draw Something is highly addictive. On average, I spend a couple hours per day completely immersed in this app, whether it be at a coffee shop, a diner or at home.”
Name: Jamil Ammar
Age: 19 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba “What I like about this game is its simplicity. It is easy to pick, and Article source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_technology/~3/DKIfObZxAKY/index.html
Name: Jayson Gutierrez
20% of U.S. adults don’t use the Web
Editor’s note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com, explores how people communicate in the online age.
(CNN) — Even though the Internet has become a key tool for accessing services, getting an education, finding jobs, getting the news, keeping up with people you know and much more, one in five U.S. adults still does not use the Internet at all, according to a new Pew report.
Why? Mostly they’re just not interested — not in the Web, e-mail, YouTube, Facebook or anything else that happens online.
“Among current non-internet users, almost half (48%) say the main reason they don’t go online
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A dark day for the future of books
Editor’s note: Mark Coker is the founder of Smashwords, an e-book publishing and distribution company. Follow him on Twitter.
(CNN) — Wednesday was a dark day for the future of books.
The Department of Justice charged Apple and five large book publishers with conspiring to raise e-book prices. Three of the five publishers quickly capitulated rather than face the risk and expense of a protracted legal battle.
Much of the case revolves around the decision of five of the largest six publishers to simultaneously adopt the agency pricing model immediately before Apple launched the iPad and iBookstore in April 2010. At that time, Amazon commanded about 90% of the e-book market. Amazon priced many books at $9.99 —
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Is it OK to leave a tech job at 5 p.m.?
Editor’s note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about tech news and digital culture. He writes regular columns about social media and tech for CNN.com.
(CNN) — Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg recently set off quite a debate in the tech world when she told an interviewer that she works a 9-to-5 schedule:
“I walk out of this office every day at 5:30 so I’m home for dinner with my kids at 6, and interestingly, I’ve been doing that since I had kids,” Sandberg said in a video posted on Makers.com. “I did that when I was at Google, I did that here, and I would say it’s not until the last
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Facebook COO’s 9-to-5 schedule sparks debate
Editor’s note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about tech news and digital culture. He writes regular columns about social media and tech for CNN.com.
(CNN) — Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg recently set off quite a debate in the tech world when she told an interviewer that she works a 9-to-5 schedule:
“I walk out of this office every day at 5:30 so I’m home for dinner with my kids at 6, and interestingly, I’ve been doing that since I had kids,” Sandberg said in a video posted on Makers.com. “I did that when I was at Google, I did that here, and I would say it’s not until the last
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