By NICOLE PERLROTH 50
minutes ago
As more doctors and hospitals have digitized
patient records, the number of reported breaches has increased 32
percent this year from last year at a cost of $6.5 billion to the
industry.
Critic’s Notebook
By SETH SCHIESEL
Star Wars: The Old Republic, a sprawling
multiplayer online adventure, is the first legitimate competition
that World of Warcraft has faced for players’ hearts, minds, hours
and dollars.
By JENNIFER PRESTON
School districts across the country are imposing
strict new guidelines that ban private conversations between
teachers and their students on cellphones and online platforms.
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, wife of the Netscape
co-founder Marc Andreessen, wants all tech titans to be famous for
their charitable work, too.
News Analysis
By MATT RICHTEL
In an emotional call for states to ban all phone
use by drivers, the chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety
Board compared the deadly habit to smoking.
Novelties
By ANNE EISENBERG
“Principles of Biology,” a digital-only textbook,
includes interactive features that take it beyond early e-textbooks
that were static reprises of the print versions.
The Boss
By SEAN DEVINE
The chief executive of CourseSmart loved books
(and rugby) while growing up, and has been a pioneer in electronic
books during his career.
By IAN AUSTEN
After Research in Motion announced a delay in its
new BlackBerry line and an intention to focus on promoting its
existing phones, stocks fell to an eight-year low.
By EDWARD WONG
New rules are aimed at controlling the way
Chinese Internet users post messages on social networking sites that
have posed challenges to the Chinese Communist Party.
DealBook
By EVELYN M. RUSLI
Zynga's shares rose 10 percent on Friday, before
dipping below its offering price. In the coming months, Zynga will
be a critical test for the fragile I.P.O. market.
Sunday Routine | Dennis Crowley
By JOHN LELAND
Dennis Crowley, a co-founder of the social
networking service Foursquare, starts the day reading, but loves to
explore the city on foot with his girlfriend.
By DOUGLAS QUENQUA
For those people who stay connected online, the
class reunion can seem outdated.
By JENNA WORTHAM
The social network is rolling out a revamped
profile feature called Timeline that makes a user’s entire history
of photos, links and other items much more accessible with a single
click.
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
A federal judge dismissed a criminal case against
a man accused of stalking a religious leader on Twitter, saying the
Constitution protected “uncomfortable” speech on such
bulletin-boardlike sites.
By SARAH MASLIN NIR
A $2 million scheme was said to have victimized
some of the city’s top philanthropists, whose financial information
was stolen.
By IAN AUSTEN
Research in Motion said the number of BlackBerry
users grew to 75 million, but its revenue is down 6 percent.
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
While the Shabab militants are waging a
traditional guerrilla war in Somalia, they are also using social
media in a propaganda war with Kenya.
By MATT RICHTEL
Some hospitals have begun limiting the use of
computers, smartphones and other devices in critical settings.
By EDWARD WYATT
The House and the Senate are looking to cut off
oxygen for sites that offer free copies of entertainment by taking
aim at search engines like Google and Yahoo that allow the pirates
to function.
By STEPHEN CASTLE
Antitrust regulators accepted concessions from
the computing giant that will modify how it provides technical
information and spare parts to rivals.