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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Andy Jordan’s Wi-Fi Weirdness

Here is our email from WSJ.com’s Tech Diary video blogger Andy Jordan about his how-people-use-free-wireless post this week: “Weird wacky fun in the park. Rats and opera singers.”
That would be land-mine-finding rats and job-seeking opera singers!
Well, how can we resist posting that? And so we will not!

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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

John Gets a Little Bit Too Racy With Video Gaming–and We’re Not Talking Grand Theft Auto

Digital Daily’s John Paczkowski makes a few obvious double entendres after being faced with a new gaming controller that looks a little suspect in his roundup of announcements in the video gaming industry during its annual E3 conference.
Here at AllThingsD.com, we try to pretend gaming devices do not look naughty.
John also posts on Google’s [...]

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Monday, July 9, 2007

Back From the Great (and Crowded) Outdoors

And let me just say after a week in the wilds of Yosemite, it’s as crowded there as in the big city, as you can read in this disturbing story from the San Francisco Chronicle this weekend on the traffic jam to reach the summit of the famous and breathtaking Half Dome. As you can [...]

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Monday, September 21, 1998

I Cut the Cord: Our Reporter Goes Totally Wireless–And Lives to Tell About It

This article was first published in The Wall Street Journal on September 21, 1998. All rights reserved.
I snipped my copper umbilical cord one sunny weekday not long ago.
Canceling my land-line phone account, cutting off service to my home for good and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless [...]

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About Kara

Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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