January 5, 2014 Ecuadorean Navy Delivers for Amazon Chief by DAVID STREITFELD By DAVID STREITFELD Jeff Bezos, vacationing in the Galapagos Islands this week, felt some serious pain. And it wasn’t just because UPS had failed…
January 5, 2014 Be Careful With Coin by DAMON DARLIN By DAMON DARLIN Coin, a device that will hold the information from all your credit cards, sounds like just the device you need. But…
January 4, 2014 Listen to Pandora, and It Listens Back by NATASHA SINGER By NATASHA SINGER The Internet radio service has started to mine user data for the best ways to target advertising. It can deconstruct your…
January 4, 2014 Adventures in the Sub-Luxury Category by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY A California company has introduced a “sea flying” submersible craft that it says can dive to 120 meters, travel as fast…
January 4, 2014 Internet Activist, a Creator of RSS, Is Dead at 26, Apparently a Suicide by JOHN SCHWARTZ By JOHN SCHWARTZ Aaron Swartz helped create RSS, a now ubiquitous format, and later became known for his efforts to make many Internet files…
January 4, 2014 AT&T Offers Customers Credit for Leaving T-Mobile by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN AT&T on Friday made an announcement aimed squarely at T-Mobile customers: If they switch to AT&T, they can receive up…
January 4, 2014 Is 2014 the Year of the Connected Home? by CLAIRE CAIN MILLER By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER More people are adopting Internet-connected home devices, according to holiday gift trends and the news expected at the consumer electronics…
January 3, 2014 A Lexicon of the Internet, Updated by Its Users by JENNA WORTHAM By JENNA WORTHAM Urban Dictionary has become a real-time archive for new and slang terms, particularly those that have risen because of social media…
January 3, 2014 Snapchat Says Millions of User Accounts Compromised by REUTERS By REUTERS Snapchat, the red-hot private messaging service, said on Thursday that it knew for months about a security loophole that allowed hackers this…
January 3, 2014 Books, Just Like You Wanted by DAVID STREITFELD By DAVID STREITFELD Writers are now able to write books that give their readers exactly what they want. That might, or might not, be…