All Stories from July 13, 2013 (Change date)
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Telephone companies abandon copper phone linesJul 13, 2013 7:01 am - MANTOLOKING, N.J. — Robert Post misses his phone line. Post, 85, has a pacemaker that needs to be checked once a month by phone. But the copper wiring that once connecte...
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Facebook's Instagram starts tool for embedding images across InternetJul 13, 2013 7:00 am - Facebook Inc. is unveiling tools for its Instagram service that will let users embed photos and videos on outside websites, including blogs and news providers, seeking t...
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Now is the time to hide your Facebook secretsJul 13, 2013 6:59 am - For the past six months, a select group of Facebook users have had a chance to try out the site’s hyped “Graph Search” function. For those unfamiliar with it, Facebook’s...
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Summer shopping? How to score the best from salesJul 13, 2013 6:57 am - Don’t worry if you never got around to buying a summer ensemble in time to make a splash at a pool party or barbecue. Now the fun kind of summer shopping begins, those ...
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Smartphones dominant force in game industryJul 13, 2013 6:56 am - TOKYO — As smartphones become more common, games for the multifunctional devices have turned into a hot commodity, with some logging huge download numbers and game maker...
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Google Plus does photos bestJul 13, 2013 6:54 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — For a year or two in the early aughts, Flickr was every photographer’s favorite corner of the Internet. Not only was it the friendliest, prettiest, m...
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Google Chromebook under $300 defies PC market with growthJul 13, 2013 6:53 am - July 10 — Google Inc.’s Chromebook was dismissed as a bare-bones laptop with limited appeal when it debuted two years ago. Now it’s defying skeptics and gaining share as...
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T-Mobile to allow frequent phone upgrades for feeJul 13, 2013 6:49 am - NEW YORK — T-Mobile says it will let people upgrade phones more quickly for a $10 monthly fee. With the new Jump plan, a customer will be able to get a new phone if the ...
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‘Elementary’ brings a stateside Sherlock to LondonJul 13, 2013 6:32 am - LONDON — Sherlock Holmes is back on home turf in the second-season premiere of “Elementary” — and so, a bit uncomfortably, is star Jonny Lee Miller. “It’s a little bit s...
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Hormones help make new plants from cuttingsJul 13, 2013 6:24 am - Take a look at new shoots growing on a favorite shrub or vine and you’ll see that the bases of these shoots may be beginning to toughen up, their once soft, green outer ...