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Two experts discuss the growing impact of blogs on the war in Iraq and Middle East policy.
As cell-phone users in Europe and Asia dart around the Web, Americans are slow to catch up.
December 27, 2007 · Blogs can rocket ordinary people into sudden notoriety and fame as some book and talent agents trawl blogland to find the next big thing. Dawn Meehan, a stay-at-home mom, started blogging about the everyday rigors of family life and got thousands of readers and a book deal.
December 25, 2007 · This week NPR is examining the fast-changing world of wireless communication. Next month, the federal government will auction off a swath of airwaves that is expected to usher in a new generation of wireless devices and services. Google is among the companies that says it will bid.
December 24, 2007 · Americans spend, on average, seven hours a month talking on their cell phones, but that figure doesn't capture how much the cell phone has become a part of our lives. It is, as one researcher put it, "a second skin"— itchy at times, and prone to blemishes, but something that increasingly, we can't imagine living without.
December 24, 2007 · The FCC will soon auction off prime wireless spectrum. For telecommunications firms — and anyone who uses a cell phone — the stakes are even higher: control of a big chunk of the burgeoning wireless Web business and, possibly, the way we use our cell phones.
December 24, 2007 · Ten years ago, the phrase "Web log" — which was then shortened to "blog" — was born. Now there are more than 100 million blogs, and about 100,000 new blogs are created daily.
December 24, 2007 · Fifty years ago, Britain's Queen Elizabeth delivered her annual Christmas message on television for the first time. This Christmas, the 81-year-old monarch will give her Christmas address on her own video site on YouTube. It's called the Royal Channel.
December 22, 2007 · Apple's iPhone, Webkinz and Hollywood starlets topped Google's most searched-for terms in 2007. The Internet giant's annual list of top queries included ponderous searches about the divine and basic "how-to" questions on kissing and knitting, among other things.
December 22, 2007 · More than 58 million people have flocked to the social network Facebook, and about 250,000 new users sign up every day. But one longtime Facebook user has dropped out of the social networking site altogether.
December 22, 2007 · A man and his robot, RUWTbot, spare you the disappointment of missing a sports game or learning its outcome before watching the taped version. Areyouwatchingthis.com sends e-mails when televised games get good with the score, time left, and channel turn to watch.
December 17, 2007 · A computer programmer in Indiana develops FreeRice.com, a game that teaches vocabulary and helps fight hunger. The word game offers four definitions for a word, and clicking on the right definition leads to a donation of 20 grains of rice to the U.N. World Food Programme.
December 17, 2007 · A report from a computer security firm shows hackers are increasingly targeting Macintosh computers. It's an unhappy change for Apple, since the Mac has long been touted as more secure than Windows PCs.
December 17, 2007 · A new report shows 47 percent of adult Internet users have Googled themselves. It shows people are comfortable posting personal information on the Web, and that it is easier for others — employees to identity thieves — to find information. Only 3 percent of all self-Googlers do it regularly.
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