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...Consumers are tired of wading through eight messages to hear the one they need (an inconvenience the iPhone is said to solve). And they are frustrated that carriers erase old messages and tightly cap your inbox. With data storage costs dropping, why can't you keep your messages, or download them to your computer? Imagine if Yahoo! let you keep just 30 or 40 email messages at a time. (Instead they offer unlimited, free email storage). "People treat voice mail like toxic waste," says Craig Walker, CEO and founder of GrandCentral, a startup that offers unlimited voice-mail storage. "They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The iPhone's Carrier Problem | 6/27/2007 | See Source »

...mobile-phone companies insist they have been responsive to consumer demands. They have bolstered their networks for better coverage, improved call quality by searching for and fixing dead spots, and made it easier to download ringtones and other add-ons. "There has probably been more change in the way phones operate in the past three years than in the 10 years prior," says Carlton Hill, a vice president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The iPhone Dials Up the Competition | 6/21/2007 | See Source »

...Download the Seek & Find page to see items whose price may rise as more corn is turned into ethanol. Then check the key to see how you faired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethanol: Seek & Find | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

...education were a mere transfer of information (and a Harvard education the transfer of this information by very accomplished faculty), then we could easily “bottle” a Harvard education and spread it worldwide. Just turn our lectures into flawlessly executed podcasts and let the masses download them. Nothing will be lost in the experience. In fact, everyone will have a front-row seat and an advantage that no one has in a real lecture: the ability to pause and rewind. Of course, you can’t ask questions, but I didn’t observe...

Author: By Eric Mazur | Title: Reflections on a Harvard Education | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...That's putting it lightly. It's routine these days to use the Internet to call friends, download music, shop and bank; Web-savvy Estonians even vote and settle their taxes online. So, while Denial of Service attacks typically only target pre-selected websites, if they're the ones we're clicking on most, "we're that much more paralyzed," says Jonathan Zittrain, an Internet governance and regulation expert at the University of Oxford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under Attack, Over the Net | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

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