All Stories from August 27, 2011 (Change date)
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Family learns about Fragile X SyndromeAug 27, 2011 6:00 am - PLAINVILLE, Ill. — When Jesica Huber describes the past nine years as an emotional roller coaster, she is probably erring on the side of understatement. For Jesica and ...
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Blackberry to synch with Android apps as RIM seeks sales boostAug 27, 2011 6:00 am - Rolling Meadows-based Research In Motion Ltd., seeking to boost the appeal of its BlackBerrys and revive slowing sales, plans to enable models expected next year to run ...
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Amazon brings new local deals site to more citiesAug 27, 2011 6:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon.com Inc. is expanding its new local deals site to New York and other parts of the country, hoping discount-happy consumers will flock to its offer...
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7 products Steve Jobs got wrongAug 27, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — Steve Jobs pushed the envelope many times when it came to product design, and the results weren’t always pretty. Here are seven products created under his dir...
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Review: Apple fine-tunes MacBook Air, making best betterAug 27, 2011 6:00 am - Is it possible for any Apple Inc. product to suffer a lack of attention? Probably not, but if it were, it might be the recently revamped MacBook Air. Released at the sam...
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China becomes biggest PC marketAug 27, 2011 6:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO — China has passed an important technological milestone: It became the world’s biggest consumer of PCs in the second quarter, according to new market resea...
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King aides bound by history to dedicate memorialAug 27, 2011 6:00 am - ATLANTA — Five years ago, as they helped break ground on what would become the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington on a cold November day,...
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Some 9/11 charities failed miserablyAug 27, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — Americans eager to give after the 9/11 terrorist attacks poured $1.5 billion into hundreds of charities established to serve the victims, their families and t...
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People and other magazines added to NookAug 27, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — People, Fortune and other leading magazines are coming to the Nook. Barnes & Noble, Inc. announced Tuesday that it had agreed with Time to make all 21 of its ...
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Weekend picks: Enjoy ribs, blues at Vernon Hills festAug 27, 2011 5:45 am - Dig in! Sample a variety of barbecued ribs from five Chicago-area rib vendors at Vernon Hills' Little Bear Ribfest at Century Park, 1001 Lakeview Parkway, Vernon Hi...