The tech week in review: Is your Wiitis acting up?
Everyone's waiting on Apple, everyone loves the Wii, and don't even ask about Ask.
Saturday, Jun 9, 2007 11:00 AM UTCEntertainment Apple, Smart Phones, Amazon.com
Everyone's waiting on Apple, everyone loves the Wii, and don't even ask about Ask.
Saturday, Jun 9, 2007 11:00 AM UTCNew-business geeks are hailing Wired editor Chris Anderson for his sexy "long tail" theory of cultural consumption. But is his book for us or CEOs?
Wednesday, Aug 9, 2006 11:05 AM UTC 10On Amazon Mechanical Turk, thousands of people are happily being paid pennies to do mind-numbing work. Is it a boon for the bored or a virtual sweatshop?
Monday, Jul 24, 2006 1:00 PM UTC 46Dowd gets blamed for fatherless homes and crime. Plus: Crones and covens and twaddle, oh my!
Tuesday, Nov 29, 2005 8:02 PM UTC 27In our first installment: "Women have expiration dates. Men don't."
Monday, Nov 28, 2005 10:30 PM UTC 134American Goliaths like Google and Amazon are quickly cornering the digital book market. Will online libraries doom the scholars and small presses of old Europe?
Thursday, Aug 25, 2005 8:00 AM UTCWhy does the Web's biggest retailer want you to confide your hopes, dreams and aspirations to a Web site called 43 Things? It's not telling.
Tuesday, Feb 8, 2005 9:40 PM UTCHow a book reviewer went from rags to Amazon riches to slightly better rags. An excerpt from "Amazonia."
Monday, Jun 14, 2004 7:30 PM UTCJames Marcus' exquisitely written tale of five turbulent years at Amazon is exactly what the dot-com retailer's roller-coaster tale deserves: A good book.
Monday, Jun 14, 2004 7:30 PM UTCAttempts to fix the intellectual property system from below are faltering. Is it time to bring in the feds?
Friday, Feb 15, 2002 8:30 PM UTC"9/11 8:48" -- the first book published about the terrorist attacks -- was print-on-demand. So why wasn't it available everywhere, immediately?
Monday, Oct 22, 2001 7:30 PM UTCA one-man crusade against online relic sales is met with unholy indifference.
Tuesday, Feb 20, 2001 8:00 PM UTCIs online shopping good for the environment or just a better way to be as wasteful as we want to be?
Thursday, Dec 7, 2000 8:30 PM UTCThe rebirth of Boo.com offers new hope to ailing Internet start-ups: Bankruptcy is now the smartest way to build your brand.
Wednesday, Nov 15, 2000 8:23 PM UTCSince when does a computer maker need to license technology from a retailer like Amazon?
Wednesday, Sep 20, 2000 6:51 PM UTCThe author of the famous do-it-yourself bomb book renounces his creation -- on Amazon.
Monday, Sep 18, 2000 7:24 PM UTCAh, earnings season: Microsoft, Amazon.com, AOL and Qualcomm fess up with their quarterly report cards.
Tuesday, Jul 18, 2000 7:00 PM UTCWith its stock down 66 percent, is Amazon.com still worth the trouble?
Thursday, Jun 29, 2000 7:00 PM UTCThe new-economy business magazines haven't flexed as much muscle as an old-school weekly that still knows how to make the Street go round.
Wednesday, May 17, 2000 4:00 PM UTCThe Amazon CEO's plan for patent reform is not all new, but it's not all bad, either.
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