AP reports that Amazon is letting people buy items using their cell phones — without talking to anyone. Amazon TextBuyIt, which launched late Tuesday, lets people text the name of a product, its description or its UPC or ISBN to 262966 (that’s “Amazon” on the keypad) from anywhere their cell phones work — including from [...]
The important overriding credo is that (newsrooms of the future) will deliver the news in whatever way the community craves and is economically feasible, including online video, audio, print, online, mobile, TV or radio. Why is it taking so long for that future to get here? ODDS & ENDS • Ms. Pac-Man for your iPod! [...]
Today’s lesson: Airplanes do not have steering wheels. Despite what reporters and an editor may say. An airplane has a yoke. (And it’s not a yolk, as that editor tried to “fix.”) A helicopter has a cyclic. (For an admittedly juvenile chuckle, check out the definition of cyclic.) What brought that on? A 78-year-old grandmother [...]
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