Tag Archives : New York Times

Long gone are those days when you would sit in the bathroom attending your daily needs while being bored out of your mind. One of the most revered and respected newspapers in the world, New York Times (NYT) is now reportedly working on a state of the art bathroom mirror for the future of news dispersal. This incredible initiative called ‘Magic Mirror’ [...]

My first encounter with Gilt Taste took place last week. And I must say that the Gilt Groupe’s new gourmet food site that combines e-commerce with editorial appears promising. Even Gilt Taste’s new editorial advisor Ruth Reichl (former Gourmet magazine editor in chief and New York Times food critic) seems to think so. At the Gilt Taste launch [...]

Representatives from AOL and American online newspaper The Huffington Post first met in November last year at a conference in the United States. Since then, they were little more than two months of talks for the sale was announced in The HuffPost. The deal closed for $ 315 million is the largest acquisition by AOL since 2009, when it was separated [...]

News aggregation is one of the foremost activities on the Internet nowadays, as with the lightning fast speed of the 21st century life, there is seldom time for users to go through various websites and pick ‘n’ choose the news and topic they wish to be apprised about. Although there is a long list of aggregators on the web, yet they are only capable [...]

Facebook, the largest social network in the world, can make an initial public offering in 2012, said a board member of the company, whetting the appetite of investors for a stake in one of biggest stories of internet growth. The Facebook, a social network designed by Mark Zuckerberg and his friends in a Harvard dorm in 2004; it is a private company [...]

The holiday season is here and so are the winters and with the plummeting temperatures, many a times hovering the minus degree region, most of the us would love nothing but to simply sit back on our couches in front of the fireplace and enjoy the festivities. With a plethora of valuable gift guides for this holiday season  from Trends Updates and other [...]

The attacks that happened to Google that took the Internet company to suspend its operations in China was led by two members of the main regulatory body in China. So say U.S. diplomatic documents recently published by WikiLeaks and cited by The New York Times. Citing documents, the newspaper says China executed repeated and often successful attacks [...]

The newest pain for the U.S intelligence agencies and the Department of Defense, Wikileaks, recently got kicked off the servers of Amazon.com and one of the biggest payment portals, Paypal, refused its services to Wikileaks, in lieu of the immense controversy surrounding the whistle blowing website. However, many in the field of media and publishing [...]

One of the most revered and respected daily newspaper editions in the world, The New York Times has now announced its plans of publishing a list of the e-book bestsellers, that will encompass both fiction and non fiction work and will be published online as well in print media in the year 2011. The New York Times was established in the year 1851 and [...]

Hanvon seems not to disappoint in its country of origin. It holds 78% market share in China in e-readers, and this new color model, with 9.68 screen and Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity. The suggested price is $ 440, in China, about $ 150 cheaper than the iPad cheaper there, the model with WiFi 16 GB. According to The New York Times, today 90% of e-readers [...]