Opinion: We've Got it Better Than Ever
The impression that older gamers are somehow universally savvier than younger ones, simply because they remember the days when games consoles had less processing power than a Tickle-Me-Elmo (and they had to walk four miles over broken glass to buy one), is false. At 30 I've listened to sound observations about games from 20-year-old gamers and deflected surprisingly childish ones from 40-year ...
Personal Data's Value? Facebook Is Set to Find Out
Facebook, the vast online social network, is poised to file for a public stock offering on Wednesday that will ultimately value the company at $75 billion to $100 billion, cashing in on the fuel that powers the engine of Internet commerce: personal data.
Olympics fever will help to make 2012 the year of the bike
The success of Mark Cavendish and expectations for the Games have raised cycling's profile – and the sport is now bringing a £3bn boost to the economy It is only January, but this year has already been christened the "year of the bike". The international success of British stars such as Mark Cavendish and Victoria Pendleton has already raised expectations that the Olympics will result in a ...
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Online companies fight for piece of offline retail pie
Google, PayPal and the major wireless-phone carriers are also racing to combine mobile technology and cloud computing to change how people pay for things in the offline world, and how retailers connect to their customers, even within their stores.
Vietnam's awakening youth circumvent censorship
MIKE IVES Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam When student Nguyen Hong Nhung saw "Killer with a Festering Head" on someone's smartphone, she wanted the banned comic book too. Though Vietnam's censors had yanked it from stores, finding a digital copy wasn't exactly hard. Nhung simply Googled the title, and with a few clicks was able to download a free bootleg copy of the book — a collection of one ...
Makers of smartphone credit card readers are ringing up sales
Brothers Adam and Ben Mayberry, who sell T-shirts to the crowds outside San Jose Sharks games, say a small piece of hardware that plugs into their iPad and allows them to accept Visa, MasterCard and American Express has boosted sales and legitimized the curbside business.
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Lao-British: Stranger donated kidney after meeting at a party
(Telegraph, DM ) Mrs Buttigieg offered to donate her kidney just minutes after meeting Manoly Viravong, 45, who had been waiting for an organ for five years.