Farhad Manjoo
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Slate: No, this is not the best iPhone everSep 17, 2012 5:29 am - All over the Web, churls and haters are claiming that Apple didn’t unveil anything really innovative or surprising at the company’s iPhone launch event in San Francisco ...
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The Kindle wants to be freeSep 03, 2012 4:48 pm - PALO ALTO, Calif. — My record on predictions about Amazon is mixed at best. Two summers ago, I guessed that “before the holidays,” Amazon would cut the price of its chea...
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Web designers should forget the desktopAug 26, 2012 10:57 pm - PALO ALTO, Calif. — Every morning I wake up too early, reach for my iPad, and scan the morning’s tech headlines. This is a pathetic enough existence, but the websites I ...
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Why it’s critical to back up gmail, FB and twitterAug 22, 2012 7:36 pm - PALO ALTO, Calif. — When I first heard of Backupify a few years ago, I thought the service sounded unnecessary at best. The company promises to back up the data you’ve s...
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The thrilling (and welcome?) demise of GrouponAug 20, 2012 1:19 pm - A year ago, Rakesh Agrawal, an analyst and journalist who spent many years working in the local advertising business, wrote a series of devastating articles about Groupo...
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What the next iPhone will look likeAug 19, 2012 9:14 am - The new iPhone looks pretty much like the old iPhone. Sure, it’s a bit taller, allowing for a display that has one extra row of icons on the Home screen. And instead of ...
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4 steps you should take to avoid getting hackedAug 11, 2012 7:50 am - Last Friday evening, a hacker got into Mat Honan’s Apple account, remotely erased the data on his iPhone, iPad and MacBook, deleted his Google account, commandeered his ...
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A new version an old-school news siteAug 11, 2012 7:20 am - The new Digg looks nothing like the old Digg. For one thing, it lacks people. In the old days, the pioneering site attracted a raucous crowd of loyalists who would post ...
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Beyond meat: The most real faux chicken everAug 06, 2012 7:34 am - The first time a vegetarian tastes Beyond Meat’s ersatz animal flesh, he’ll feel delighted and queasy at the same time. There’s something about the way these fake chicke...
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A new outlook on email and reason to ditch GmailAug 06, 2012 5:20 am - Two years ago, Microsoft attempted to transform Hotmail, its ancient Web mail service, into a program fit for modern times. The company put a great deal of thought into ...