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Microsoft coverage: tell us what you want

You've likely noticed that our coverage of Microsoft (non-gaming) has picked up quite a bit over the past year, thanks in large part to contributions from Peter Bright who has joined Emil Protalinski on One Microsoft Way. Peter and...

And now, the results of the 2010 Reader Survey

With over 10,000 responses to our 2010 Reader Satisfaction Survey (now closed), it's time to talk results and interpretations. This was a big survey, so I’m going to roll through the results and beg your pardon in advance tha......

Want to help steer the good ship Ars Technica? Take our quick survey

Editor's note: I'm bumping this survey call again. We have nearly 6,000 responses so far, but we want even more. Tell you what. You guys get us past 8,000 and we'll not only publish the results, but we'll tell...

Apple’s "evil/genius" plan to punk the Web and gild the iPad

There were two awkward moments yesterday at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference. A few sites have already made much of Steve Jobs' wireless networking difficulties during his demonstration. But the real awkward moment was when ...

More signal, less noise: cleaning up our comments

Today, I would like to discuss with our community the recent decline in both quality and civility in our front page news discussions/comments. While I remain proud of our community discussions on articles, and while I acknowledge that they are far superior to the status quo online, things have taken a...

Our digital exodus: we’re moving forums!

In less than three months, Ars Technica will be 12 years old. It’s hard to believe that when we slapped WWWThreads on our site and started directly facilitating conversation amongst our readers, we'd still...

Cisco: Internet to change forever Tuesday (place your bets!)

Cisco today said that after the close of markets on Tuesday, the company will announce a significant news (we're guessing a major acquisition) which will "forever change the Internet and its impact on consumers, businesses and governments." We first learned of the news from MarketWatch.

Cisco has been rumored to be...

Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love

Did you know that blocking ads truly hurts the websites you visit? We recently learned that many of our readers did not know this, so I'm going to explain why.

There is an...

4chan’s moot takes pro-anonymity to TED 2010

LONG BEACH, CA—TED 2010. Christopher Poole is not a name known by many, but Poole's handle is certainly (in)famous: moot is the founder of 4chan, the largest, most raucous, alternately hilarious...

12 things we want to see in iPhone OS 4.0

The iPhone seriously lags other smartphones in areas other than market share. As a man armed with both an iPhone and a BlackBerry, I'm acutely aware of the iPhone's limitations, as well...

Brief: Join Kiva, and let’s all help the world today

As the snow piles up here in Chicagoland, I finally got around to doing the best gift giving I could this holiday season. No, it wasn't last-minute shopping. I started making loans! You're thinking, "huh?"

I joined Kiva and started making "microloans" to businesses in need all over the world. Truth...

Special Ars Premier deal for new subscribers: holiday goodness

We've got a special holiday deal for new Premier Subscribers: subscribe to Ars Technica, and get a 12-month subscription to Wired magazine (recently named magazine of the decade) free....