Author: Rebecca Greenfield

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Emma Carmichael: What I Read

Emma Carmichael

The new editor of The Hairpin treats mix-tapes like books and commutes by Instapaper.

By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 2, 2011

Apple on iPhone 4S Battery Drain: We're Working on It

Apple has acknowledged that its iPhone 4S has some battery issues and says it is coming up with some fixes.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 2, 2011

George Bush's Memoir Outsold the Steve Jobs Biography

In the first week of sales, George W. Bush's book Decision Points sold better than Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 2, 2011

Groupon Is Actually, Really Going to Have an IPO on Friday

For a moment there, it looked like Groupon was never going to get its IPO act together, but the daily deals site is finally scheduling it for Friday. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 2, 2011

The Pros and Cons of Switching to Google's New iPhone App

Alongside Google's Reader and Gmail renovations, Google has finally introduced a native iPhone App. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 2, 2011

BlackBerry's New Music Service Is a Terrible Deal

Today BlackBerry is releasing its very sad excuse for a music service to the public and in the ever concentrated streaming-music world, BlackBerry's offering is the least enticing.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 2, 2011

Tim Cook Is Ridding Apple of Some of Steve Jobs's Evils

Steve Jobs was a revolutionary, but not everything he did was all that peachy, and his successor Tim Cook is trying to steer Apple away from the darker side of things.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 1, 2011

The Reasons Kids These Days Are a Bunch of Impolite Brats

Today, The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bring a troubling trend to our attention: manners are dead. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 1, 2011

Google Is Trying to Fix Its Targeted Ad Attitude Problem

Yesterday the company announced a new feature that not only informs users why targeted ads appear but also provides a little ammo to detonate an unsavory targeted ad. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 1, 2011

The Hunt for MF Global's Missing $700 Million

After teetering on the brink of collapse, financial firm MF Global filed for bankruptcy yesterday, causing a hellstorm for both Wall Street and the company. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 31, 2011

Doctor Says Obama Still Not Smoking

After Obama's first periodic exam in February 2010, it turned out he hadn't quite kicked his smoking habit, and was even sneaking cigarettes, but he seems to be on track now.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 31, 2011

Airlines Charge Fliers to Fix a Problem They Created

The airlines have created an evil cycle of fees for flyers: charge passengers for the solution to a problem they created.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 31, 2011

Matt Drudge Pays Cash for His Second Million-Dollar Pad

Apparently aggregation is quite lucrative for Matt Drudge, of Drudge Report fame, who just paid cash for a $1.45 million house in Miami.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 31, 2011

Sell Cheap Tablets and the People Will Come

Tablets are the must have gadget of the past few years, but people aren't willing to fork over big money to own one.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 31, 2011

Contrary to Popular Belief, Cain Was Not Singing Amazing Grace

During a press conference today at The National Press Club explaining the "totally baseless" sexual harassment claims Politico reported, Herman Cain inexplicably broke out into song. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 31, 2011

Twitter Is Not the Enemy of the English Language

Contrary to all the LOLs, emoticons and hashtags happening in feeds across the Twittersphere, Twitter isn't destroying the English language.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 31, 2011

Why the Television Will Be Not Revolutionized

For all the talk about cord cutting and our magical future of Internet TV, in real life, television is very much still corded with no signs of being unfettered.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 28, 2011

Case Closed: $16 Muffins Never Existed

We thought those pricey muffins were suspect from the very beginning because the math just didn't add up, but now everyone can stop freaking out about the Justice Department's exorbitant muffin budget.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 28, 2011

The Huntsman Daughters Have Their Own Ridiculous Version of Cain's Ridiculous Ad

Jon Hunsman's three daughters Liddy, Abby, and Mary Anne put together a pretty spot-on mockery of the Cain ad circling around earlier this week that had heads scratching.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 28, 2011

A More Personalized Streamer with Google TV 2.0

After a freshman flop, Google has announced it's releasing version 2.0 of its TV on Sunday, this time with some features that turn it into a little personal TV aggregator.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 28, 2011

Some Fixes for the iPhone 4S Battery Drain

A few weeks with the new phone under their belt, some new iPhone 4S users have figured out why the phone's battery might be draining too fast and found some fixes that mostly work. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 28, 2011

Why Meg Whitman Changed Her Mind to Save Hewlett-Packard's PCs

Before she took office as HP CEO, as a board member Meg Whitman supported spinning off the company's PC division, yesterday, she pushed HP in the exact opposite direction.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 27, 2011

There Are Other Cool Things Siri Can Do

Siri is a pretty neat personal as is, but some have taken her to the next level, connecting the bot to other devices and making life just that much easier.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 27, 2011

Square to Be Hipster

Hipsters are supposed to be the cool kids, but that's actually not the way it works: anyone can join in. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 27, 2011

In Microsoft's Vision of the Future Everything Is a Computer

Microsoft released a new video detailing its vision of the future which doesn't exactly include flying saucers and droids, but it does feel futuristic and tech-y.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 27, 2011

What the Proceeds of a BlackBerry Class Action Could Buy

Free apps haven't appeased BlackBerry users, who are now seeking a class action lawsuit against Research in Motion, asking for around to be paid $1.25 to each angry customer.  

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 26, 2011

House Democrats Want Republicans to Stop Saying 'Obamacare'

Arguing that Obamacare is at this point a derogatory term, House Democrats want to ban the term from mailers sent from Congressional offices, reports Roll Call's Jonathan Strong.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 26, 2011

John McCain Needs Some New Jokes

Congress has had low approval ratings for so long that Sen. John McCain has been able to recycle the same  at least 27 times in the last five years.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 26, 2011

Impoverished Bloggers Forced to Sell Links

Gawker's Hamilton Nolan has unearthed a dirty marketing scam that's happening in the Internet journalism world right now: Advertisers are paying bloggers for links in posts. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 25, 2011

Virginia Rometty: The Kind of Lady CEO the Business World Needs

IBM just added a woman to the tiny roster of leading ladies in the business tech world, appointing Virginia Rometty as CEO.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 25, 2011

These Gaps Are More Important Than an 'App Gap'

Today The New York Times introduced yet another inequality that distinguishes the have-nots from catching up to the haves: the "app gap." 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 25, 2011

The War to Be the Greatest Put-Upon Generation

There's an Internet generation brawl happening to determine which cohort has it worse-off.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 25, 2011

Steve Jobs: 'I Finally Cracked' the Apple TV

A quote from the Steve Jobs biography has the Apple TV rumor mill up and running again.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 24, 2011

Even Barack Obama Has a Tumblr Now

While the Republicans are playing social media catch-up on Twitter and Facebook, Obama is capitalizing on a trendier Internet medium: Tumblr.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 24, 2011

Netflix Stock Drops After Its Good Earnings Report

The future doesn't look too hot for the streaming movie service and investors can smell it.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 24, 2011

Charlie Rose Confirms He's Talking to CBS About 'The Early Show'

Following the Page Six item gossiping that CBS is looking to pair Charlie Rose with Gayle King on The Early Show, Rose has confirmed that he's in talks with the network in an interview with Howard Kurtz in this week's Newsweek.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 24, 2011

A Yahoo Bidding Race Scorecard

With all these big Internet names floating around, let's take a look at the chances any of these companies will make it out with Yahoo in hand. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 21, 2011

Boeing's Dreamliner Could Make Flying Better

On Wednesday the "revolutionary" Boeing Dreamliner will fly its very first commercial flight.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 21, 2011

Google's Steve Yegge Wins the Blog Readers He's Always Wanted

After publicly posting a 3,000-plus word tirade "by accident," Google engineer Steve Yegge has become quite an accomplished blog-ranter.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 21, 2011

Revelations from the Steve Jobs Biography

With the Walter Isaacson Steve Jobs biography out Monday, outlets have read and reviewed the book, detailing the juiciest parts, including his warning that Obama is "headed to a one-term presidency."

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 20, 2011

Cassette Tapes Are Great for Everything Except What They Were Made For

The Wall Street Journal claims cassette tapes are making a comeback for hard-to-believe reasons like that terrible hissing sound and the smell, but but we have a different theory for why these sub-par listening devices have seen a renaissance is actually not-music related: crafts.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 20, 2011

What Productivity Gains Really Look Like

The lucky Americans who have jobs are working more hours for less money, which is keeping American productivity up but worker morale low, and over the last few months we've gotten a clearer picture of what that means for workers. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 20, 2011

The Internet Remembers the Odd Side of Qaddafi

Qaddafi's the kind of paradox the Internet loves: A brutal dictator and an eccentrict family man with a penchant for flamboyant clothing.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 20, 2011

The Despot Wears Prada: How Qaddafi Will Be Remembered

Eccentric, flamboyant, provocative, these are just some of the terms used to describe Qaddafi in his obituaries.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 20, 2011

Fortune's 40 Under 40 Is 85% Male

Fortune's 40 Under 40 has found and ranked the world's the hottest young stars and, keeping the trend of women being underrepresented in such ranking exercises, it's almost entirely dudes.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 19, 2011

Groupon's Sinking Valuation Now Down to $12 Billion

Groupon's finally taking its IPO on the road, but is seeking a much more modest valuation than initially anticipated.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 19, 2011

Obama Has Actually Raised More Money from Wall Street Than Romney

The other day The New York Times suggested Romney had raised more than Obama, today the Washington Post's clearing things up. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 19, 2011

Bill O'Reilly Shouldn't Take U.S. Soldiers Burning His Books Personally

Upon receiving a box of Bill O'Reilly's Pinheads and Patriots, a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan conducted a book burning--but it wasn't political, he swears

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 19, 2011

Hillary Clinton's Global Hotspot Tour Heads for Afghanistan

After an unexpected visit to Libya, the Secretary of State made another unannounced stop in Afghanistan, reports The Associated Press. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 19, 2011

The Occupy Wall Street Protesters Aren't Just a Bunch of Kids

While the movement has been identified as a millennial driven movement, the demographics are much more diverse than that.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 19, 2011

Kara Swisher Wins the Most Hard Core Blogger Award

On Tuesday morning, Kara Swisher, AllThingsD's scooperstar, arrived in Hong Kong suffering from a "mini stroke" but did not stop blogging.

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