We will not publish a 4cast on December 25, but will return on January 2 with some tech predictions for 2014.
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On November 4, Tom Wheeler was sworn in as the new Federal Communications Commission chairman and shortly thereafter signaled that he had a great interest…
It has been about a month since Dish Networks announced that they were closing the remaining 300 Blockbuster Video stores, starting a rash of articles…
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After Christmas every year, public libraries commonly have a lot of patrons bring their new gadgets to the library to ask for help in connecting…
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As you venture out to the stores this week – or jump online – to do your Christmas shopping, take a second to look at…
About two weeks ago, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies released a report entitled Broadband and Jobs: African Americans Rely Heavily on Mobile…
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Librarians have often faced the problem of explaining the need to pay for subscriptions to online magazines, journals, and authoritative information resources. People seem to…
Owners of the Moto X smartphone from Motorola Mobility got an unexpected treat last week. A red hat appeared on their screen, and if they…
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Wikipedia has problems. Now twelve years old, the online encyclopedia has developed some ailments that can be traced directly back to the volunteer editors of…
Over the past couple of months, Dan Goodin wrote two articles in Ars Technica about password and passphrase protection that have been widely quoted in…