All Stories from July 7, 2012 (Change date)
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Google phasing out ‘iGoogle’ in latest purgeJul 07, 2012 7:22 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Google is phasing out a service that allows millions of people to personalize its home page with applications such as weather updates and stock quotes. T...
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Can you help me identify this object I bought at a garage sale?Jul 07, 2012 7:22 am - Q. Please help me identify this object. It is gold-plated and about 6 inches long. I purchased it at a garage sale. The grandson was disposing of his grandmother’s belon...
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Why is broccoli America’s most despised vegetable?Jul 07, 2012 7:11 am - There’s a 1928 New Yorker cartoon in which a chic-looking mother sits at a dinner table with her young daughter and urges to eat what’s on her plate: “It’s broccoli, dea...
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Can you be fired for what you post on Facebook?Jul 07, 2012 7:00 am - On a Saturday morning in October 2010, Mariana Cole-Rivera, a domestic violence advocate at the group Hispanics United of Buffalo, began the Facebook thread that would g...
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The problem with cloud computing: CloudsJul 07, 2012 7:00 am - Thanks to the cloud, websites and apps around the world can tap into vast, remote stores of data and computing power. And thanks to the cloud, one good blow to one of th...
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RIM cutting carrier fee shows 'spiral' concernJul 07, 2012 7:00 am - TORONTO — Research In Motion, the BlackBerry maker whose stock has dropped 95 percent since 2008, is under pressure from mobile phone companies to reduce carrier fees th...
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The 1991 novel that predicted Sarah PalinJul 07, 2012 7:00 am - As prophetic an instrument as it can be, “Ride a Cockhorse,” by Raymond Kennedy is rarely predictive, in a straightforward, short-range, weather-forecast sense. The ora...
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The smartest dumb use yet for 3-D printing: Personalized bobbleheadsJul 07, 2012 7:00 am - There are a lot of dumb uses for 3-D printing, from plastic bikinis to plastic lampshades to plastic rat-shaped cookie cutters. But I just ran across my favorite dumb us...
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Gay TV is not just for gays anymoreJul 07, 2012 6:22 am - When is a TV channel like a bar? When it’s gay. Logo, America’s first gay TV channel, is transitioning. When it launched in 2005, Logo aired news segments, sketch-comedy...
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Weekend picks: Bristol Renaissance Faire returns for the summerJul 07, 2012 6:00 am - Party like it's 1599 Celebrate the rituals and pageantry of Tudor England when the Bristol Renaissance Faire returns this weekend for another season just across th...