All Stories from March 2, 2013 (Change date)
-
Palatine Twp. residents propose abolishing road districtMar 02, 2013 7:00 am - Take a look at Matt Flamm’s quarter-mile-long, dead-end street on the north side of Palatine and you’ll notice two different types of pavement — one made by the township...
-
Gurnee police offer peek at school safety videoMar 02, 2013 7:00 am - Woodland Middle School staged lockdown Feb. 15
-
Mid-2013 expansion for Internet names targetedMar 02, 2013 6:53 am - NEW YORK — Hundreds of Internet address suffixes to rival “.com” should be available for people and businesses to use by the end of the year, the head of an Internet ove...
-
Microsoft’s IE 10 browser coming to Windows 7 PCsMar 02, 2013 6:51 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft is escalating its efforts to bring the latest version of Internet Explorer to more than 700 million personal computers in an attempt to re-esta...
-
Momentum grows for alternative phone system TizenMar 02, 2013 6:50 am - BARCELONA, Spain — The junior league of smartphone operating systems is getting more competitive. Phones from yet another contender — Tizen — will go on sale this year w...
-
Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg urge kids to codeMar 02, 2013 6:50 am - NEW YORK — Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter creator Jack Dorsey are among the tech luminaries appearing in a new video promoting t...
-
Review: Google’s Chromebook Pixel is upscale overkillMar 02, 2013 6:49 am - I’m writing these words on a lovely new laptop. It’s thin, light and made of machined aluminum, but it isn’t a MacBook. It’s got a beautiful touch screen, but it isn’t a...
-
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s misstepMar 02, 2013 6:37 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — It was nearly a decade ago that I stopped going into the office every day. I worked at a competing Web magazine at the time, and my bosses didn’t rea...
-
Smart watches gain interest and popularityMar 02, 2013 6:34 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — On a sunny day at a picnic table in Silicon Valley, Eric Migicovsky glanced down at his wristwatch. He wasn’t checking the time, he was checking his ...
-
Review: Strong passwords and other security tipsMar 02, 2013 6:19 am - NEW YORK — Rarely does a week go by without news of another hacking incident, whether it’s Chinese hackers accused of breaking in to The New York Times’ computer systems...