Seven Days in 100 Words: The Samsung Galaxy S IV

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The typical gadget review these days can run thousands of words and cover hundreds of features before telling you what you really want to know: is this thing any good? The Atlantic Wire will cut to the chase after spending a week with a device and give you just the bottom line. 

By Jared Keller

Aug 20, 2010

Will Facebook Places Actually Help Foursquare?

So far, new users are flocking to Foursquare

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By Heather Horn

Aug 20, 2010

By John Hudson

Aug 19, 2010

Facebook Places: What's the Worst That Could Happen?

Four worst case scenarios caused by a new geolocation service

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By John Hudson

Aug 19, 2010

How Facebook Is Using 'Places' to Consolidate Power

The biggest social network throws its weight around

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By Erik Hayden

Aug 18, 2010

Will AOL's 'Patch' Kill Your Local Newspaper?

500 journalists get hired to power hyper-local news

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By Heather Horn

Aug 18, 2010

Bedbugs Take America, America Attempts to Fight Back

"You can only flee, finally"

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By Erik Hayden

Aug 17, 2010

Apple to Deliver iPad Mini by Christmas?

Just in time to duke it out with the Amazon Kindle

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By John Hudson

Aug 17, 2010

Wired Declares the Death of the Web: Too Soon?

Challenging Chris Anderson's eulogy for the open Web

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By Ray Gustini

Aug 16, 2010

Best Tweets: Filling the Silence Edition

Nothing happened today. Twitter wouldn't stop talking about it.

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By John Hudson

Aug 13, 2010

Tea Partiers Take On Net Neutrality

"The FCC is relentlessly pursuing a massive regulatory regime that would stifle broadband expansion"

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By John Hudson

Aug 13, 2010

Clash of the Tech Titans: Oracle Sues Google

"Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle's Java-related intellectual property"

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By Ray Gustini

Aug 12, 2010

Twitter Shudders as Storms Sweep DC

The chattering classes get soaked

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By John Hudson

Aug 10, 2010

Why the Google-Verizon Pact Is Bad for Consumers

Net neutrality advocates rip apart the new proposal

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By Heather Horn

Aug 10, 2010

Op-Ed Spotlight: Google, Verizon CEOs Resist 'New Rules' on Wireless Networks

Schmidt and Seidenberg respond to net-neutrality critics

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By John Hudson

Aug 9, 2010

Why Did Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd Get Canned?

Sexual deviance, dishonest accounting or something else?

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By Ray Gustini

Aug 6, 2010

Best Tweets: 'Who to Follow' Insanity Edition

Don't you tell Twitter what to do!

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By John Hudson

Aug 5, 2010

Do Google and Verizon Really Want to Kill Net Neutrality?

The fate of the Internet hangs in the balance

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By John Hudson

Aug 5, 2010

Why Google Wave Crashed and Burned

"It was a solution looking for a problem"

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By Heather Horn

Aug 4, 2010

Quote of the Day: 'Mild-Mannered' Methodist McKibben Loses It

The bestselling author and environmentalist is a bit frustrated

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By Heather Horn

Aug 4, 2010

BP's 'Static Kill' Is Working, Except for the Name

"Static Kill?" ask bloggers. Seriously?

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By Max Fisher

Aug 2, 2010

Is the Worst of the Oil Spill Really Over?

Some are moving on, others urge caution

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By Heather Horn

Aug 2, 2010

UAE to Block BlackBerry Services: Too Hard to Spy On

The consequences for BlackBerry and freedom of information

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By John Hudson

Aug 2, 2010

BP's 'Static Kill' and 'Bottom Kill' Explained

A closer look at BP's final fix

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By Ray Gustini

Jul 30, 2010

Best Tweets: Summer Doldrums Edition

Summer + Friday = lazy day on Twitter

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By John Hudson

Jul 30, 2010

Google's Midlife Crisis

In social networking's brave new world, can the Internet giant expand beyond search?

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By Benjamin F. Carlson

Jul 29, 2010

By John Hudson

Jul 29, 2010

Hacker Harvests 100M Facebook Profiles and Publishes Data: Who's At Risk?

"People did not understand the privacy settings and this is the result"

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By Heather Horn

Jul 28, 2010

How Would You Like to Die?

Atul Gawande offers a thoughtful exploration of end-of-life options

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By Max Fisher

Jul 28, 2010

By John Hudson

Jul 26, 2010

Government Expands Fair Use: Your New Freedoms

Make way for "jailbreaking" phones and ripping DVDs

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