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Why I want the iPhone to succeed
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Andrew Orlowski
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I’m glad the iPhone’s is here – and I have very selfish reasons for wanting it to succeed. That’s because even without the cellular telephony, it looks like something I’ve been wanting to buy. But it’s also because after years of writing about smartphones, I’ve seen the established players become lazy and complacent, go down…
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When Google sneezes, does the internet get flu?
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Andrew Orlowski
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Much of the web-based new economy hinges on the behaviour of how one company deals with two mammoth challenges next year. Both are potentially lethal, and a poor response to either will have dire consequences for many operations doing business on the internet. Fortunately, that company is supremely well-equipped to deal with problems of a…
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The DIY encyclopedia
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Andrew Orlowski
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Who can fail to love the can-do spirit and have-a-go enthusiasm of Wikipedia? When the site found itself in need of copyright-free illustrations, one user simply generated his own. We were alerted to this cockle-warming tale via a Something Awful forum, where member Stick_Fig, sets the scene like this: A group of users has decided…
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John Doe blogger is ‘Person of the Year’
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Andrew Orlowski
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Few publications in the world take themselves as seriously as Time magazine, and Christmas each year finds it at its most unctuous and self-important, as Time chooses its “Person of the Year”. This year, the award for newsmaker of 2006 is given to “You” – the internet user. But perhaps not you or me. The…
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10% of US net users ‘addicted, needing therapy’ (other 90% too burned out to respond)
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Andrew Orlowski
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Interesting quotes here. But why the social pressure? The American obsession with therapy may almost be considered as a neurosis in its own right. But quacks see promising material in a growing number of internet addicts. “6 percent to 10 percent of the approximately 189 million Internet users in this country have a dependency that…