May 27 Watch Publishers, Writers Assess the Digital Frontier of the Written Word From podcasts to digital tablets, technology is reshaping the way Americans read. As the 2010 Book Expo wraps up in New York, Jeffrey Brown takes a look at emerging technologies and the future of the book. Continue watching
May 26 Facebook Set to Roll Out New Privacy Controls Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be rolling out simplified privacy controls Wednesday. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. Facebook will unveil new, easier-to-use privacy controls Wednesday, a company executive announced on Tuesday. The announcement comes after heavy… Continue reading
Apr 05 iPad Roundup: What the Bloggers Have Said So Far Senior correspondent Jeffrey Brown takes the NewsHour's new iPad for a spin on the set. Photo by Kate Gardiner. Sixty-five days after it was announced, the iPad went on sale Saturday, selling more than 300,000 units… Continue reading
Apr 05 Silicon Valley Story: Applied Materials Executive Relocating to China By Spencer Michels SAN FRANCISCO | Silicon Valley is looking deeply inward and finding things are not as they were. The valley, where firms like Google, Apple, Intel and Applied Materials have their headquarters, is losing steam and perhaps the innovative spirit… Continue reading
Apr 05 Watch Consumers Weigh Apple’s iPad Buzz, Future of Tablet Computing Apple's new iPad tablet hit stores over the weekend, selling some 300,000 devices on its first day. Jeffrey Brown gets two points of view about the iPad and what it could mean for the future of mobile computing devices. Continue watching
Mar 26 The Things America Will Do for Google’s High Speed Internet There are no concrete numbers, no official announcement date, not even a clear number of winners. But still, it's Google, and the news that the internet search giant will build "ultra-high speed broadband networks" in at least one community… Continue reading
Mar 25 NewsHour Plus Wired Check 4G, ‘Flutter Tests’ and March Madness By Hari Sreenivasan Welcome to another episode of “NewsHour Plus” where we see what is bubbling up in the world of technology and science. We recently talked to Mark McClusky, a senior editor at Wired in San Francisco. He tells… Continue reading
Mar 24 NewsHour Plus and Gizmodo Talk iPad and the ‘Cloud’ We're kicking off a new series of conversations called "NewsHour Plus" here on the Rundown that will explore how science and technology intersect with our daily lives. With the April 3 release date for Apple's iPad inching closer, we… Continue reading