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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Google has filed a motion to end the gag order on the secret FISA court requests that it gets from the government as a part of the National Security Agencies surveillance, which could work considering how recent efforts to reveal the secrets of the secret court have gone.
The airlines have created an evil cycle of fees for flyers: charge passengers for the solution to a problem they created.
Apparently aggregation is quite lucrative for Matt Drudge, of Drudge Report fame, who just paid cash for a $1.45 million house in Miami.
Tablets are the must have gadget of the past few years, but people aren't willing to fork over big money to own one.
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.
Contrary to all the LOLs, emoticons and hashtags happening in feeds across the Twittersphere, Twitter isn't destroying the English language.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hipsters are supposed to be the cool kids, but that's actually not the way it works: anyone can join in.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
IBM just added a woman to the tiny roster of leading ladies in the business tech world, appointing Virginia Rometty as CEO.
Today The New York Times introduced yet another inequality that distinguishes the have-nots from catching up to the haves: the "app gap."
There's an Internet generation brawl happening to determine which cohort has it worse-off.
A quote from the Steve Jobs biography has the Apple TV rumor mill up and running again.
While the Republicans are playing social media catch-up on Twitter and Facebook, Obama is capitalizing on a trendier Internet medium: Tumblr.
The future doesn't look too hot for the streaming movie service and investors can smell it.
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.
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.
On Wednesday the "revolutionary" Boeing Dreamliner will fly its very first commercial flight.
After publicly posting a 3,000-plus word tirade "by accident," Google engineer Steve Yegge has become quite an accomplished blog-ranter.
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."
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.
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.
Qaddafi's the kind of paradox the Internet loves: A brutal dictator and an eccentrict family man with a penchant for flamboyant clothing.
Eccentric, flamboyant, provocative, these are just some of the terms used to describe Qaddafi in his obituaries.
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.
Groupon's finally taking its IPO on the road, but is seeking a much more modest valuation than initially anticipated.
The other day The New York Times suggested Romney had raised more than Obama, today the Washington Post's clearing things up.
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.
After an unexpected visit to Libya, the Secretary of State made another unannounced stop in Afghanistan, reports The Associated Press.
While the movement has been identified as a millennial driven movement, the demographics are much more diverse than that.
Ever since the first tort suit that claimed a link between phone radiation and brain was filed in 1993, research into the subject has fallen on all ends of the spectrum.
Alongside the new Galaxy Nexus phone, Google unveiled its latest: Ice Cream Sandwich. No, it's not a delectable summer treat, it's a jazzed up name for Google's latest Android update.
The iPhone's a big creeper. It has a bunch of fancy phone features that have wooed users, like Siri and its 8 megapixel camera. But the phone has a darker side.
Motorola's bringing the Razr back. Remember the Razr? The flip phone that out-slimmed and out fashioned all those other bricks.
Facebook has a bad privacy track record and people care--just not that much.
After getting solid reviews hopeful iPhoners have flocked in record numbers to purchase the latest iGadget, but not even Apple's offerings are perfect.
He's single, eats organic food, and, bizarrely, likes both Coldplay and Radiohead
Not only do 87 percent say they think protesting is "okay," 67 percent say they agree with their views
Herman Cain has been gaining steam, but enough to oust Obama?
The National Transtional Council claims it has captured 90 percent of the loyalist stronghold
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