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  • iPhones May Add More Multitasking This Summer


    Posted Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 5:44pm

    One of the most common complaints among iPhone owners is the lack of multitasking. As Apple’s (AAPL) commercials point out, you can fire up an app while making a phone call. But running a few separate third-party apps—that is, not ones bundled in the iPhone at purchase—has not been possible.

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  • App-etizers, March 11: Barnes & Noble Brings Nook to iPhones


    Posted Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 4:27pm

    Taking a page from the Kindle, Barnes & Noble (BKS) is planning a Nook e-reader app for the iPhone. (MacObserver)

    Is HTML5 more efficient than Flash? Sometimes. It depends on the OS and the browser. (ReadWriteWeb)

  • Posted Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 4:01pm
    Still from EverQuest II. Copyright Sony.

    Back in 2008, it seemed like only one thing was certain about the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program: It was a gamble. A really big one. The economy’s problems were unprecedented and the potential remedy untested, which meant that economists could do little more than speculate about how hundreds of billions in bailout money would affect the country’s overall fiscal health.

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    • Nick DiUlio is a New Jersey-based freelance magazine writer and editor. Read his blog at nickdiulio.com.
    Still from EverQuest II. Copyright Sony.

  • The Times Reader Stars in Adobe's Air Promo


    Posted Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 3:47pm

    • Marion Maneker is a regular contributor to The Big Money.

  • Grading Google Bike Maps


    Posted Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 3:15pm

    Bike jocks everywhere are testing out Google's (GOOG) new bicycle commuting function on Google Maps, and so far the verdict is ... meh. The biggest goose egg so far is New York City, where reporters at the New York Post tested numerous recommended routes and found them "filled with potentially fatal flaws, including routes that cut across Central Park's treacherous tranverse roads and steer cyclists to truck-riddled thoroughfares."

    • Chris Thompson is a writer living in Brooklyn.

  • Old Spice Has Lady Friends on Facebook


    Posted Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 2:54pm

    On Facebook, companies that target male consumers are at a slight disadvantage. The majority of Facebook's audience (56 percent) is female. And market research has shown that women are more likely to interact with companies there. For example, one study found that 80 percent of women say they're fans of one or more brand or product on a social network.

    • Caitlin McDevitt is an editorial assistant at The Big Money.

  • Wendy's, Arby's, Carl's Jr., and Hardee's All Under One Roof?


    Posted Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 2:25pm

    Citing a single unidentified source "close to the process," the New York Post reported today that activist investor Nelson Peltz is considering making a competing bid for CKE Restaurants, the owner of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's.

    • Dan Mitchell has written for the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and Wired.

  • Trying to Digest the Journal's Restaurant Coverage


    Posted Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 1:24pm

    Raymond Sokolov will no longer write restaurant reviews for the Wall Street Journal, as he had been doing as a freelancer since 2006. He told Pete Wells of The New York Times' Diner's Journal that his editors told him it will no longer run restaurant reviews and that they wanted him to write about "food trends" instead.

    • Dan Mitchell has written for the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and Wired.

  • What Can Big Business Learn From Social Media Activism?


    Posted Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 1:21pm

  • Sugar Debate's Nixon-in-China Moment


    Posted Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 11:53am

    The Center for Science in the Public Interest never passes on an opportunity to tweak the food industry. That's what it exists to do.

    • Dan Mitchell has written for the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and Wired.