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Tuesday 29 October 2013

Google’s latest EU antitrust plan offers rivals a discount, but it’s not a game changer


by Jeff John Roberts
Oct 28 2013, 7:12pm PDT
Google has made new concessions to guarantee its rivals a place in search results -- but the new terms offer no strategic threat to the company's overall position.
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by Liz Shannon Miller
Oct 28 2013, 7:07pm PDT
How can technology transform a train station into an opera theater? The answer is more than just headphones, and the experience created is more than unique.
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by Mathew Ingram
Oct 28 2013, 6:45pm PDT
In an op-ed piece in the New York Times, an author complained about repeatedly being asked to write for free, but what he finds so insulting is something many others see as an opportunity -- and it is not going away any time soon
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by Laura Hazard Owen
Oct 28 2013, 12:49pm PDT
Showtime hit Dexter, which recently wrapped its eighth and final season, is coming to Netflix Watch Instantly. The first four seasons of the show will be available October 1; seasons five through eight will start streaming January 1, 2014.
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by Mathew Ingram
Oct 28 2013, 12:47pm PDT
Is objectivity in journalism an outdated concept that has been replaced by transparency and disclosure, or is that a recipe for unbalanced coverage? Glenn Greenwald and the NYT's Bill Keller debated that question
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by Laura Hazard Owen
Oct 28 2013, 8:51am PDT
After an uproar broke out in the U.K. over self-published rape and incest porn for sale on ebook sites, Kobo removed self-published titles from its U.K. site for two weeks while it reviewed them. Now the company has explained its policy going forward.
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by Mathew Ingram
Oct 26 2013, 4:18pm PDT
A study by IBM information scientists that looked at the aftermath of the Boston bombings found that Twitter was unreliable -- but during such events almost all information sources are inherently unreliable
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by Jeff John Roberts
Oct 26 2013, 1:00pm PDT
People retweet lies and errors on Twitter all the time. Are there special cases where they should be punished for doing so? That's what happened in the UK, raising questions again about how to regulate speech on not just Twitter, but other sites where you can slander with a single click.
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by Mathew Ingram
Oct 25 2013, 1:56pm PDT
The debate over whether journalists need to code is a lot like the argument over whether bloggers are journalists -- a sign of how quickly the field is being disrupted, and of how much we still have left to learn
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by Laura Hazard Owen
Oct 25 2013, 8:47am PDT
Amazon Publishing's head honcho in New York, Larry Kirshbaum, plans to leave the company next year. The company is also reportedly scaling back its publishing presence here, something it denies. But it's undeniable that Amazon's original plan to publish traditional fiction and nonfiction like a major East Coast publisher has not gone as planned.
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by Laura Hazard Owen
Oct 25 2013, 8:21am PDT
Streaming video service Wuaki.tv, which launched in the U.K. this summer, has partnered with Panasonic to make its app available on Viera smart TVs. The company says it expects smart TVs to be the largest viewing platform for its content.
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by Chris Albrecht
Oct 25 2013, 3:35am PDT
On this week's Gigaom Show we talk about Facebook facing a problem with its content, Netflix transforming TV and the importance of good design.
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