Gadget geeks hoping for a “retina” display on the new iPad will have to wait for the third generation: The new second-generation device’s display is similar to that of the current iPad. The Wall Street Journal says the second-generation iPad is now in…

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New iPad in Production

We’ll look forward to reading the behind-the-scenes account on WikiLeaks one day: The Wall Street Journal says the White House held a meeting Monday in which it made clear it sees “no scenario” for Mubarak to hold on to power. The U.S. and its allies…

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White House Gives Up on Mubarak

Who says the corporate media doesn’t care about the opinions of ordinary people? There have been lots of articles lately about what workers think, written by the people who study them the most–bosses. As a vice president of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and a Wall Street Journal columnist, William McGurn naturally has his finger on the pulse of the American working class: read more

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Billionaires Take a Stand for the Working Man

For the first time since 2008, China’s President Hu Jintao gave an interview with The Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, just before his state visit to Washington. He wrote his answers to the media, telling the Post that it’s important for…

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Hu Jintao Hopes for ‘Common Ground’

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has said that all US troops must be out of Iraq by the end of 2011 as originally planned and that his new government and its security forces are capable of confronting any threats to the country’s security and unity, according to The Wall Street Journal . read more

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The Wall Street Journal’s outstanding investigation into how online tools track us continues today with a look at mobile apps. According to the Journal, dozens of the 101 smartphone apps they tested transmitted users’ phones’ unique IDs, personal details, and location data without users consent. Worse yet, the apps provide little control over stopping the transmissions, which often go to advertising firms. Smartphone users are all but powerless to limit the tracking. With few exceptions, app users can’t “opt out” of phone tracking, as is possible, in limited form, on regular computers. On computers it is also possible to block or delete “cookies,” which are tiny tracking files. These techniques generally don’t work on cellphone apps. The makers of TextPlus 4, Pandora and Grindr say the data they pass on to outside firms isn’t linked to an individual’s name. Personal details such as age and gender are volunteered by users, they say. The maker of Pumpkin Maker says he didn’t know Apple required apps to seek user approval before transmitting location. The maker of Paper Toss didn’t respond to requests for comment. Read the full story at The Wall Street Journal .

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Many Smartphone Apps Give Away Your Data Without Consent

A December 9 article in the Wall Street Journal began with the following sentence: “After touring bases in eastern Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that he was confident the war strategy was working, rejecting doubts that have been voiced by some inside the administration as the White House finishes work on a review of the campaign.” “There is no doubt the security climate is improving,” Gates told a press conference in Kabul. read more

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Why Do We Take Petraeus’ Rubbish Seriously?

The recent U.S. offer of $2 billion in military aid, plus diplomatic guarantees, to secure a 90-day settlement freeze from the Israelis misses the point entirely, argues The Wall Street Journal’s Bret Stephens. The fact is, he says, there is no deal to…

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Are Settlements the Real Problem?

Early Friday I went through the G20 communique for the Wall Street Journal; a marked up copy is available on-line . It is hard to imagine how the summit could have gone any worse for the US Treasury and the president. The spin machine is now working overtime – and you’ll see big efforts to get more positive stories over the coming week – but on all fronts the outcome is very bad. read more

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Simon Johnson | G20: Profound and Complete Disappointment for the US Treasury

Time to start rethinking those drunk tweets? President Obama will be creating a new federal office to oversee Internet privacy, the Wall Street Journal reports. The new branch will be recommended in a forthcoming U.S. Commerce Department report-but…

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New Fed Office to Police Internet Privacy

In what The Wall Street Journal calls “one of the oddest episodes in the annals of Silicon Valley,” Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd was forced to resign after violating H-P’s standards of business conduct. His firing was due to expense account…

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Hurd Allegedly Leaked H-P Plans

Everyone deserves a second chance, right? Former ImClone Chief Executive Samuel Waksal’s new company, Kadmon, will acquire Three Rivers Pharmaceuticals, the Wall Street Journal reports. Waksal founded ImClone in 1984, but was imprisoned for insider…

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Sam Waksal’s Comeback

Yet another social network has been caught in a decidedly unfriendly situation. According to the Wall Street Journal, MySpace has been leaking private information about its users to advertisers; users who clicked on ads or used specific apps were…

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MySpace Leaks Data to Advertisers

Things continue to look bleak for Democrats going into the midterm elections, a new Wall Street Journal poll reports. Republicans have a 50 percent to 43 percent advantage among likely voters, up three points from last month. The Republican pollster…

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Republican Lead Widens

It looks like crops and cattle aren’t the only thing that FarmVille’s selling: The Wall Street Journal reports that many of the most popular Facebook apps transmit personal data to advertisers, even if users set their profiles to the strictest privacy…

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Facebook Caught in Privacy Breach