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Despite Google's refusal to turn over data on people's Internet use to U.S. prosecutors, the company is actually betraying its customers' trust by retaining information on every search and resultant Web-page retrieval. If phone companies logged the content of everybody's phone calls, consumers would be outraged. Perhaps Google's respecting the privacy of its customers is not congruent with the goal of Internet domination...
...technologies are changing the way they do business. With high-quality video available on 200 million PCs via broadband, 200 million 3-GB mobile phones, an estimated 4 million iPods and other devices, the Big Four networks (ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox) are scrambling for ways to deliver content over a panoply of platforms. They are also scrambling to figure out a business model that can predictably deliver profits in this variegated market...
...Jump Around” blared in the room, the two faced off to a near stalemate. The decisive black to A6 finisher, played with the very last available piece, left the crowd in awe. Despite falling short at the absolute cusp of triumph, Camm was content with her prize. “This is a moment I’ve wanted for a long time, and I couldn’t have lost to a greater opponent,” she said. Newman, staying true to the jovial mood of the night, was a gracious winner, remembering to thank those...
...said that department chairs meet regularly with the dean, but she refused to comment on the content of those meetings or the nature of the complaints levied by professors...
...need—the sort of connect-the-dot overviews of the arts and sciences that form the foundation of a liberal education. Understandably, most Harvard faculty members want to teach their specialties. The core curriculum tried to bridge the gap by emphasizing methods of study rather than content, but it doesn’t seem to have truly satisfied anyone...