Business Stories from October 5, 2013 (Change date)
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Apps, tech try to ease stressOct 07, 2013 5:59 am - Smartphones and tablets that enable us to stay constantly connected aren’t exactly synonymous with rest and relaxation. But a slew of new apps and online programs are tr...
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Hospital launches pediatric tech centerOct 07, 2013 5:59 am - WASHINGTON — Children’s National Medical Center in Washington and Cerner, a health care technology provider based in Kansas City, Mo., are each investing several million...
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Like the star, we try to light a lampOct 10, 2013 2:41 pm - My intent with this sentence was to write a lead you never would forget. Truth be told, that’s been the intent with virtually every lead I’ve written in the past 30 or m...
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Google retools search engineOct 07, 2013 5:59 am - MENLO PARK, Calif. — Google has quietly retooled the closely guarded formula running its Internet search engine to give better answers to the increasingly complex questi...
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Round Lake Park transfer station hearing ends after 40 hoursOct 07, 2013 10:47 am - An important step in a proposal to build a garbage transfer station in Round Lake Park ended this week, although there still is time for interested parties to weigh in. ...
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Father of Prius sees long road to ditching gasOct 07, 2013 5:59 am - Toyota Chairman Takeshi Uchiyamada rode his pioneering work on the Prius hybrid to the top of the world’s biggest car company. But that doesn’t mean he is a zealot when ...
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Japan, U.S. to adopt cyber-defense guidelinesOct 05, 2013 11:36 pm - TOKYO — The Japanese and U.S. governments will incorporate a policy on how to respond to cyberattacks in the Japan-U.S. defense cooperation guidelines, a move aimed at c...
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Review: New Amazon Kindles add help with a human faceOct 07, 2013 8:55 am - Here’s the most important feature of Amazon’s new Kindle Fire HDX color tablets: Operators are standing by. Actually, they’re technical-support people, summonable from t...
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Facebook beefing up Graph Search featureOct 07, 2013 5:59 am - When Facebook announced in January that it was coming out with a search function, people flipped out about the privacy implications. As it turned out, though, Facebook’s...
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Wearable technology raise alarms for privacy advocatesOct 07, 2013 5:59 am - WASHINGTON — Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smart watch is set to hit U.S. stores this week, part of a new wave of wearable technology that some fear could open a largely unregul...