Information Technology
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Americans' new way of losing pounds is leaving Weight Watchers behindNov 01, 2014 7:43 am - This should be the perfect time for a company such as Weight Watchers to thrive. The United States is still one of the fattest nations on the planet, with a third of the...
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Online stores fight Amazon for piece of retail pieNov 01, 2014 7:43 am - NEW YORK - Amazon.com's low prices and seemingly endless array of goods have made it the biggest online retailer in the U.S., commanding about 20 percent of all e-commer...
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Review: Use Sun Seeker to see the lightNov 01, 2014 7:36 am - It's not often that an app teaches you a new vocabulary word. But that's what happened when Sun Seeker provided me with the solar azimuth. The what? Turns out, it's an a...
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What your smartphone addiction actually looks likeNov 01, 2014 7:35 am - If you are one of thousands of readers accessing this page on your smartphone, please chill for a minute. Look around. Observe the commuters or bored line-waiters or dis...
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Banks dive into technology, mobile servicesNov 01, 2014 7:33 am - WASHINGTON - There is a policy at Capital One Labs in Arlington, Virginia that if a team needs more than two pizzas for dinner, the group is probably too big. Staying sm...
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Anonymous, Gamergate and the impossible dream of vigilante justiceNov 01, 2014 7:32 am - When one of Anonymous' self-declared leaders tweeted the launch of an anti-Gamergate campaign on Friday, he wasn't just announcing a new cause for the Internet's most hy...
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Review: Avid readers will love Kindle VoyageNov 01, 2014 7:32 am - GRAPEVINE, Texas - As stand-alone e-book readers go, I have yet to find anything as comfortable and easy to use as Amazon's Kindle. Last year's Kindle Paperwhite was sma...
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Review: CBS streaming not worth cutting cord, yetNov 01, 2014 7:31 am - NEW YORK - I dropped my cable TV service more than a year ago and have been relying on Netflix, Hulu and other services to fill my television needs. But I get my shows a...
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Branson vows to find out cause of spacecraft crashNov 01, 2014 1:01 am - MOJAVE, Calif. - Billionaire Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson vowed Saturday to find out what caused the crash of his prototype space tourism rocket, killing one ...
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Work starts on UI Labs headquartersOct 30, 2014 1:01 am - The developers of a public-private research lab have broken ground on its headquarters in Chicago. Gov. Pat Quinn, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel a...