Author: Rebecca Greenfield

iPhone's New iOS7 Design Is Flat as Hell and You Can't Stand the Wait Anymore

Simply Zesty

After hearing a lot about the "flat" new look of iOS 7 that may or may not be revealed next month, there's finally been some light shed on details of what the latest iPhone design basics might look like — and, well, things start off pretty much in the dark.

By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 9, 2011

This Lewd Brazilian Elderly Woman Is the Most Influential Person on Twitter

The most influential Twitter account is a Brazilian elderly woman with a foul mouth and a GIF powered avatar, showcasing the tweeter doing sexy things.
 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 9, 2011

There's No Excuse for Missing Tomorrow's Total Lunar Eclipse

Nature and technology have made it easy for you to catch tomorrow's full lunar eclipse, the last one until April 14, 2014.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 9, 2011

Inside Zynga's Roadshow: Selling Games Few Pay to Play

After announcing its lofty IPO goals last week, Zynga has taken its show on the road, trying its hardest to convince investors to pony up for a service that only 3 percent of its users pay for. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 9, 2011

HP Has the Perfect Funny Last Man Standing

As HP debates the fate of its dying webOS, the mobile operating system HP used in its failed tablet TouchPad, it has the perfect man defending the unpopular system: A tech savvy guy who has practiced self-deprecating humor for years. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 8, 2011

Facebook's Trademark Hypocrisy

In a move of utter hypocrisy Facebook, a company with a trademark for the word "face," is countersuing Timelines.com, claiming its trademark of the word "timeline" is too generic.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 8, 2011

Reactions to the New New Twitter: For Newbs and Advertisers

This afternoon Twitter announced a "fly" new site redesign that focuses more on growth and less on making user experience better for loyal tweeters. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 8, 2011

How to Make the Ugly New Gmail Pretty Again

Instead of just sitting around and complaining on Twitter about the new Gmail, do something about it. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 8, 2011

The Likelihood of Internet TV Predictions

With the Internet TV model not quite perfected, the field is wide open for predictions and theories on what the future holds for the seemingly inevitable conjoining of television with web offerings. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 8, 2011

Credit Card Companies Are Making You Pay For Dodd-Frank, Too

Though banks didn't succeed in pawning their Dodd-Frank burdens off to consumers with a $5 monthly debit charge, credit card companies are charging businesses more for handling small transactions which is being passed along to customers.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 7, 2011

The Entire Year in Movies in 7 Minutes

Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 7, 2011

The Fragmented Future of Mobile Payments

As with all things Internet, the future of mobile payments is going to be fragmented, making the promise of a digital wallet on your phone a lot less exciting.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 7, 2011

Designing an iPad App for the iPhone

When translating its popular iPad app for magazine reading to the iPhone, Flipboard didn't just shrink its iPad app and slap it on the iPhone.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 7, 2011

Facebook Leaves 99 Percent of Its Users Out of Its Timeline Launch

Facebook has finally decided to start rolling out its Timeline; but don't get too excited, it's only turning the feature on for 0.25 percent of its users.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 6, 2011

More Android App Downloads Doesn't Mean More Money for Developers

The announcement of Android's 10 billionth app download should be great news for developers. After all, more downloads means more money, right? Actually, it might not.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 6, 2011

Justin Bieber is Coming to Town

Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 6, 2011

Mark Zuckerberg Private Secret: He's Boring

After a body building blog exposed a Facebook glitch that gave users access to private hidden photos, the best thing the Internet could think to do was post Mark Zuckerberg's super boring private photos. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 6, 2011

PayPal Makes It as Hard as Possible to Donate Money

A button that's supposed to make it easier for charitable giving only makes things more confusing for people just trying to collect funds for the needy.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 6, 2011

Why Is Your Cable Bill So High? Ask ESPN

While the Internet usually gets all the blame for inspiring the scary-for-cable-companies cordless future, the NFL, too, will dictate television's fate.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 6, 2011

The Most Common Complaints About the Kindle Fire

Three weeks after Amazon released the Kindle Fire, users have had enough time to notice its kinks. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 5, 2011

The Sad Fliers' Crusade for Airplane Mode

After last week's New York Times column on the pointlessess of making fliers turns off gadgets during take-off and landing, angry technophiles have started a White House petition to get the rules changed. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 5, 2011

The Siri Backlash Is Here

The feature that wowed tech bloggers upon the iPhone 4S's debut, is no longer getting much praise.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 5, 2011

The FCC Uses the Term 'News' Loosely

Anderson Cooper's daytime talk show, Anderson, which recently featured segments such as "Plastic Surgery Gone Wrong" and "Hoarders & How to Free Your Life From Clutter," is one of the newsier shows the FCC has ruled a bona fide news program. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 5, 2011

We Still Shop at the Mall for a Bunch of Reasons

With record breaking Cyber Week numbers and the reported death of malls, it looks like Internet shopping is moving ever-closer to replacing the physical experience of going to stores. But brick-and-mortar stores still have some reasons to exist.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 5, 2011

Watching Television Is About to Get a Lot More Active

With the Internet coming to TV on streaming boxes, like Xbox's Live TV redux, which debuts tomorrow, the experience of television watching is looking to get a lot more like Web surfing and a lot less like vegging out on the couch.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 2, 2011

When Businesses Hurt Groupon

In a recent daily deals mishap, Groupon may have actually not deserved the flack it got for a deal gone wrong. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 2, 2011

Some Technical Explanations for Siri's Abortion Glitch

Since Apple has come out and said that Siri's abortion non-answers are a glitch and thus not a conspiracy, it's time to dig into technical explanations for the seemingly political bot.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 2, 2011

Zynga's IPO Goals Are Neither Massive nor a Massive Letdown

The Internet gaming company filed documents on Friday morning indicating that it intends on raising somewhere between $850 million and $1.15 billion for its public offering, raising $15 million more than it previously estimated.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 2, 2011

The BlackBerry PlayBook Is Killing RIM

It's becoming clear that the BlackBerry Playbook is significantly hurting an already ailing Research in Motion, after the company announced Friday morning that it will take a $485 million charge as a result of poor tablet sales.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 1, 2011

Napster's Seven Lives Are Finished

Instead of mourning Napster's last day on this Internet planet, we thought we'd point out Napster's many deaths. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 1, 2011

Silicon Valley's Incubator Glut Is Real

Though Silicon Valley continues to point to its big portfolios and the industry's high valuations, a look at how incubator start-ups are doing shows what's really happening in the tech world. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 1, 2011

Some Limitations of Using Google to Find Racist Voters

As a recent study claiming to measure how many votes Obama lost in 2008 because of racism demonstrates why it's problematic to rely on Google search results as a metric for racist voting patterns.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 1, 2011

Apple Vaguely Apologizes for Siri's Abortion 'Glitch'

After the Internet freaked out over Siri's apparent pro-life bias, Apple has responded, but not apologized or fixed, the personal assistant's abortion "glitch."

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 30, 2011

Amazon Has a Very Good Reason to Now Support an Internet Sales Tax

Now that the legislation favors Amazon, in a total turnaround from earlier this year, today Amazon came out and said it "strongly supports" the Internet sales tax. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 30, 2011

Keeping Data Off U.S. Servers Won't Prevent the Government from Snooping

If the U.S. wants to get a hold of foreign data in any cloud -- American or not -- it has legal ways of getting it. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 30, 2011

Now's the Time for Spotify to Impress All Its Freeloaders

Just in time for those six months of free unlimited streaming subscriptions to expire, Spotify has a big announcement this afternoon. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 30, 2011

Yahoo Attracts Some Low, Unsurprising Bids

Yahoo's not worth as much as it had hoped, receiving bids for a minority stake between $16 and $18 per share, far short of its high $20 expectations

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 29, 2011

The Very Minor Benefits of Xbox TV

Microsoft's Xbox 360 Live, which customers can now sign up for, offers more than any other box in the lame streaming TV industry, but if you're looking to cut pricey cable out of your life and totally rely on the Internet for TV, these aren't the gadgets for you. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 29, 2011

Siri Has a Funny Way of Not Knowing Things

When asked where to go for an abortion, Siri has been directing iPhoners to far-away, pro-life clinics. Does that make Apple's robot stupid, ill-informed or biased?

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 29, 2011

Yahoo Enters a New Phase of Sale Negotiations

Months after announcing its sale and the ensuing speculation over buyers, Yahoo will reportedly sit down today and talk about  the possibility of selling a minority stake in its company to one of various bidders. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 28, 2011

Spatwatch

Chick-Fil-A's Assault on Kale

The Players: Chick-Fil-A, the Southern based fried-chicken fast-food chain, which employs the tagline "Eat Mor Chiken" (sic) to sell its greasy deliciousness; Eat More Kale, an eco-friendly T-shirt business that promotes sustainable food screen-printing its very similar sounding slogan "Eat More Kale" on t-shirts. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 28, 2011

Morning Joe Doesn't Get Why Its New Promotion Is Sexist

On Monday, MSNBC's Morning Joe premiered a new promotion that has ladies in media crying sexism and Joe Scarborough scratching his head. 

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By Adam Clark Estes and Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 28, 2011

The Best Siri Hacks So Far

Dissatisfied with Siri's already impressive personal assistant skills, hackers have taken her to the next level, manipulating her technology to do more than just send text messages.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 28, 2011

Strong Black Friday Sales Aren't a Good Sign for the Economy

Amid a lagging economy and high unemployment Black Friday sales were up 6.6 percent from last year, which many are taking as a good sign for today's Cyber Monday mayhem and the rest of the shopping seasons, but those numbers are less optimistic than they sound.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 23, 2011

Facebook's Increasingly Lenient Police Officer Guidelines

As Facebook has worked more with the police over the years, its official officer guidelines have changed.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 23, 2011

Martha Stewart Pepper Sprays a Turkey

Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 23, 2011

Yes, There Is a Space Thanksgiving

Thanks to technology and science, Thanksgiving has gotten better for astronauts. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 23, 2011

Britney Spears Is the Best Thing to Happen to Google+

This morning, Google+ got some major celebrity cachet with Britney Spears surpassing Google CEO Larry Page as the most followed person on the network.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 23, 2011

Some Obvious Reasons Groupon's IPO Bubble Is Bursting

On Tuesday, Groupon's stock fell 19 percent, hovering just above its original $20-a-share price of the company's recent $805 million IPO, starting the morning at $20.03; today the daily deal site's stock is down further to around $17 per share. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 23, 2011

The End of Caller ID

If a number's not in our address book, attached to a very familiar name, there's no reason to pick it up -- it's probably something evil.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 22, 2011

Stop Putting Words on Girls Clothing

Lately, clothing stores haven't had enough sense to discern the line between popular slogan and inappropriate saying, so we're suggesting they call the whole thing off.

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