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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.
So far, new users are flocking to Foursquare
Get ready for a long slog forward
Four worst case scenarios caused by a new geolocation service
The biggest social network throws its weight around
500 journalists get hired to power hyper-local news
"You can only flee, finally"
Just in time to duke it out with the Amazon Kindle
Challenging Chris Anderson's eulogy for the open Web
Nothing happened today. Twitter wouldn't stop talking about it.
"The FCC is relentlessly pursuing a massive regulatory regime that would stifle broadband expansion"
"Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle's Java-related intellectual property"
The chattering classes get soaked
Net neutrality advocates rip apart the new proposal
Schmidt and Seidenberg respond to net-neutrality critics
Sexual deviance, dishonest accounting or something else?
Don't you tell Twitter what to do!
The fate of the Internet hangs in the balance
"It was a solution looking for a problem"
The bestselling author and environmentalist is a bit frustrated
"Static Kill?" ask bloggers. Seriously?
Some are moving on, others urge caution
The consequences for BlackBerry and freedom of information
A closer look at BP's final fix
Summer + Friday = lazy day on Twitter
In social networking's brave new world, can the Internet giant expand beyond search?
So stop comparing them
"People did not understand the privacy settings and this is the result"
Atul Gawande offers a thoughtful exploration of end-of-life options
It's looking better, but...
It's people vs. algorithms
Make way for "jailbreaking" phones and ripping DVDs
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