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Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca and Rachel KingArchive: November, 2010
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Larry Dignan
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Larry Dignan
Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news editor and finance editor at CNET News.com. Larry has covered the technology and financial services industry since 1995, publishing articles in WallStreetWeek.com, Inter@ctive Week, The New York Times, and Financial Planning magazine. He's a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and the University of Delaware.
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Andrew Nusca
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Andrew Nusca
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Andrew J. Nusca is an editor for ZDNet and SmartPlanet. As a journalist based in New York City, he has written for Popular Mechanics and Men's Vogue and his byline has appeared in New York magazine, The Huffington Post, New York Daily News, Editor & Publisher, New York Press and many others. He also writes The Editorialiste, a media criticism blog.
He is a New York University graduate and former news editor and columnist of the Washington Square News. He is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has been named "Howard Kurtz, Jr." by film critic John Lichman despite having no relation to him. He lives in his native Philadelphia with his wife, cat and Boston Terrier.
Rachel King
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Rachel King
Rachel King is a staff writer for CBS Interactive in San Francisco. Before serving as a contributing editor at ZDNet in New York City for two years, she previously worked for The Business Insider, FastCompany.com, CNN's San Francisco bureau and the U.S. Department of State. Rachel has also written for MainStreet.com, Irish America Magazine and the New York Daily News, among others. Rachel has a B.A. in Mass Communications and History from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, where she served as art director for the student magazine, Plated.
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Comcast-Level 3 fight goes public: Is this really about Net Neutrality?
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Motorola breakup scheduled for Jan. 4
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EU launches probe against Google. Now what?
The European Commission said today that it has launched an in-depth investigation against Google over allegations that the search engine has abused it position as a search leader, specifically...
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Barnes & Noble: NookColor, digital efforts hit bottom line hard; Payoff elusive
Barnes & Noble will continue to invest heavily in its digital efforts such as the NookColor, Nook and various apps for its e-book store. The rub: That investment is translating to some...
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PARC spins out cloud networking startup PowerCloud
PowerCloud focuses on cloud technology for OEMs that make it easier to deploy and manage business networking devices.
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The race to 5 million: Will iPad or Kinect be the holiday season darling?
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Net neutrality: Not dead yet?
Network neutrality may be a cat with yet another life and the Comcast-Level 3 sparring match appears to be well-timed to get the debate rolling (again).
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Mozilla's Dotzler rants on 'sneaky' plug-ins: Read your EULAs
Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler ranted about evil plug-ins from the likes of Google, Microsoft and Apple and said that trio of vendors should ask for permission before adding extensions to Firefox....
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Microsoft Research's tactile touchscreens: Is it really circa 1970s PARC?
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Level 3, Comcast spar over Net 'toll booth'; Right to stream Netflix at stake?
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Live on Facebook: George W. Bush is an "iPad person," uses "the Facebook"
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Seagate: We're not going private
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Iran: Yes, Stuxnet hurt our nuclear program
The Stuxnet worm got some big play from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who acknowledged that the malware dinged his nuclear program.
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Google Earth: Now with 3-D trees, Street View integration
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Tablets will displace PC units; Time to pick winners and losers
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Apple's holiday sales: It's all about the iPad and growing the lead
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The five most overhyped tech products of 2010
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Google TV: Kind of clunky but full of potential
When it comes to Google TV, the thing I like most is its potential. That’s not to say I dislike it - but if I’m going to drop $300 or more on a computer/set-top box for the living...
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Must...have...faster...broadband!
Can America, especially rural America, ever catch up with the sort of broadband we need to meet business, academic, entertainment, and social needs?
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