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Steve Jobs Reigned in a Kingdom of Altered Landscapes - NYTimes.com
Earlier this year, I wrote a column about the publishing industry’s resistance to the terms Apple was imposing for subscriptions on the iPad. Soon after, an e-mail was followed by a phone call and Steve Jobs was on the line to straighten me out.
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At the time, publishers were profoundly unhappy. Apple was not only proposing to take a third of the revenues, but was also requiring that the transaction go through Apple, meaning publishers would get none of the consumer data that had such high value to advertisers. -
China plan for secret detentions alarms rights activists - latimes.com
Reporting from Beijing— A proposed change in the Chinese criminal code that would allow authorities to detain suspects for up to six months in a secret location is a dangerous step backward for the country, activists charged Saturday.
The change would effectively enshrine what has become a common practice for silencing dissidents, many of whom have disappeared for months without formal charges being filed. Under the change, the suspects can be held without notice to their family members or lawyers. -
Mr. Bernanke’s Warning - NYTimes.com
It’s what journalists call burying the lead. More than halfway through his speech on Friday to central bankers meeting in Jackson Hole, Ben Bernanke said the recession would not cause lasting damage to the economy “if — and I stress if — our country takes the necessary steps to secure that outcome.”
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Sometimes I push back on my heels, look at this country and wonder aloud: “What on earth are we doing?”
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We have a growing crisis among the nation’s children, yet our policies ignore that reality at best and exacerbate it at worst. -
What Makes Steve Jobs Great - NYTimes.com
“I think I have five more great products in me,” Steve Jobs said a very long time ago.
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He was 31 at the time and barreling up Route 101 in Silicon Valley, en route to a meeting in San Francisco. Having been kicked out of Apple, which he’d co-founded a decade before, Jobs was wholly engaged in the act of starting up a new company, which he had named — of course! — NeXT. -
China TV Deletes Video That Led to Hacking Fears - NYTimes.com
BEIJING — The main Chinese state television network has deleted from the Internet a video that some foreign military and Internet security analysts say implies China has engaged in hacking attacks on Web sites in the West.
The video was the July 16 episode of a program on China Central Television 7 called “Military Science and Technology.” The episode, called “The Internet Storm is Coming,” was about cyberwarfare.
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