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 Beware 12 Scams of Christmas 

Online schemes take advantage of the holiday spirit

6 hours, 50 minutes ago
TRAVEL

Anonymous Posters Bedevil TripAdvisor

Hotel ranking site shows dangers of crowdsourcing

Nov 20, 09 2:35 PM CST
FARHAD MANJOO

Microsoft Office 2010:
Worthy, But Not Worth It

Why buy what you can get for free?

Nov 20, 09 9:45 AM CST
big brother

Vulgar Online Comment Costs Man His Job

He posts dirty word, then gets tracked via his IP address

Nov 20, 09 8:40 AM CST
BIG BROTHER

Cops Use Facebook to Bust Underage Drinkers

Phony 'friend' gains access to drinking photos

Nov 19, 09 6:19 PM CST

Twitter Founder:
Murdoch Will 'Fail Fast'

Biz Stone thinks plan to put up online paywalls is folly

Nov 19, 09 12:00 PM CST

Your Boss Can't Read Your Email, Courts Say

Judges start to sympathize with employees in privacy disputes

Nov 19, 09 11:42 AM CST

Computer Glitch Causes Nationwide Flight Delays

Planes in the air not affected

Nov 19, 09 8:23 AM CST

 AOL to Lay Off a Third of Staff 

Roughly 2300 will get the boot after spin-off

Nov 19, 09 8:13 AM CST
JUDGE HANGS UP ON AT&T

 Verizon Ads 'Sneaky' But OK 

AT&T-bashing campaign can stay on air, judge says

Nov 18, 09 9:01 PM CST

Secret Google Phone Is Real—Really

It's rumored to be a VoIP-only device made by Samsung or LG

Nov 18, 09 2:14 PM CST

 Facebook's 
 Most Annoying 
 Parents 

Enough with the sonogram pictures and toilet training status updates

Nov 18, 09 12:12 PM CST
Thomas Friedman

Carbon-Tax Foes Must Think the End Is Nigh

How else to explain them being OK with the exploding population?

Nov 18, 09 8:25 AM CST

FCC Eyes Hiking Phone Bills to Expand Internet Access

Feds want to open networks, but would tax your phone bill to do it

Nov 18, 09 6:48 AM CST
RE-EXAMINING THE FOOD PYRAMID

 Heart Disease: 
 Pharaohs Had It, Too 

'Part of the human condition,' so fast food not only culprit

Nov 17, 09 7:20 PM CST

 Google Ditches 
 Mapmakers, 
 Hires ... You? 

Google ditches industry giant for user content, and others follow

Nov 17, 09 9:56 AM CST
OPINION

 'Unfriend' Is Scam, 
 Not Word, of Year 

This is one big hacky trend piece, writes Adrian Chen

Nov 17, 09 9:08 AM CST

 YouTube Launches
Citizen Journo Channel

YouTube Direct service aims to connect editors with video

Nov 17, 09 6:35 AM CST

Holiday Shipping Costs Get the Heave-Ho-Ho

Charges ditched as online competition heats up

Nov 17, 09 1:42 AM CST

Microsoft Co-Founder
Paul Allen Battling Cancer

Billionaire, 56, given diagnosis of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Nov 16, 09 6:55 PM CST

Teens Cop to Texting and Driving—But Say Dad's Worse

No age limit for bad behavior behind wheel

Nov 16, 09 5:57 PM CST

In Venezuela, Criminals, Police Turn to Facebook

Citizens fear gov. will crack down on social networking

Nov 16, 09 5:51 PM CST

Latest Facebook Star: 2009 Word of the Year

'Unfriend' beats 'sexting' and 'birther,' gets call from dictionary

Nov 16, 09 4:56 PM CST

Stung by Bias Charges, Twitter Will Stop Suggestions

List of people to follow 'will be going away'

Nov 16, 09 3:28 PM CST


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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

The Health-Care Wars Have Just Begun

8
Nov 20, 09 | 8:32 AM BY Michael Wolff

My 84-year-old mother was full of venomous indignation at dinner last night over the great mammogram take-back. Bureaucrats, in her view, will happily kill women to save money. My colleague, Caroline Miller, Newser’s editor in chief, took umbrage in this space the other day about the new guidelines. She noted the obvious cold efficiencies involved with discouraging younger women from having a yearly mammogram, as well as the “patronizing” justification for... More »

Sarah Palin Deserves Some More Attention

16
Nov 19, 09 | 10:14 AM BY Michael Wolff

This is a phenomenon that just keeps giving. Its very lack of explanation, and ensuing incredulity and apoplexy, propel it. There... More »

And We Thought We Hated Mammograms

7
Nov 18, 09 | 2:40 PM BY Caroline Miller

No one likes to get a mammogram. Still, it’s hard to find a woman anywhere who was pleased to hear the new ruling that women in their 40s don’t need to endure the annual indignity of baring their breasts to the radiologist after all. That’s because it’s hard to find a woman anywhere who believes that the federal panel changed its recommendation for her benefit. It’s not that the decision doesn’t make sense: It costs a lot to... More »

China and the Obese: The President Meets His Greatest Problems

12
Nov 18, 09 | 8:43 AM BY Michael Wolff

For all sorts of obvious reasons, it seems like a greatly unacceptable and possibly discriminatory thing to say that the obese are a lot... More »

Rupert Murdoch’s Guy Gets It

6
Nov 17, 09 | 6:50 AM BY Michael Wolff

If Arthur Miller were at it again, he’d call the play Death of a PR Guy. Gary Ginsberg, Murdoch’s PR guy who got... More »

Obama's Secret Weapon: The Hug

4
Nov 16, 09 | 12:30 PM BY Lewis Grossberger

President Obama needs to get the hell out of China as fast as he can, rush back to America and start hugging Republicans. This will... More »

The President Wants You to Know He’s Too Dopey to Use Twitter

19
Nov 16, 09 | 8:01 AM BY Michael Wolff

“First of all, let me say that I have never used Twitter. I notice that young people—you know, they’re very busy with... More »

Does Warren Buffett Know What He’s Talking About?

10
Nov 13, 09 | 6:55 AM BY Michael Wolff

Nobody I know who is smart and rich (albeit much less rich than they used to be) thinks the economy is patched up and ready to roll—except,... More »

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