Information Technology
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Providence, RI sues firms over rapid stock tradesApr 18, 2014 1:01 am - Providence, R.I., is suing dozens of Wall Street banks and other financial companies over high-frequency trading. The federal complaint was filed Friday in New York on b...
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Five features an Amazon phone might offerApr 18, 2014 1:01 am - NEW YORK - Rumors of an Amazon smartphone reached a fever pitch this week, with several tech blogs speculating that the device could be due out this year. Amazon hasn'...
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Google not immune to challenges of mobile transitionApr 17, 2014 1:01 am - Google Inc. isn't immune to setbacks caused by the global shift to mobile computing. Costs are rising and Google said yesterday that revenue, excluding sales passed on t...
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NoWait apps offer suburban restaurant guests a pager-free experienceApr 17, 2014 1:00 am - If you ever went to a busy restaurant, the hostess likely gave you a bulky pager that would flash and vibrate when your table was ready. You also would sit around, wonde...
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Motorola Solutions shrinks, while Zebra growsApr 15, 2014 1:01 am - Schaumburg-based Motorola Solutions Inc. continues to chip away at its legendary status by selling its Enterprise unit to Lincolnshire's Zebra Technologies for about $3....
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Samsung hooks unsuspecting Obama as phone ad starApr 13, 2014 1:01 am - NEW YORK - The latest pitchman in Samsung's marketing machine: an unwitting President Barack Obama. Boston Red Sox baseball player David Ortiz snapped a selfie with the...
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Review: Fire TV device great, but not fully readyApr 13, 2014 1:01 am - NEW YORK - Amazon's new Fire TV streaming device shows a lot of potential in bringing together the best features from competing devices and adding voice search on top of...
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Data hones Google's gender equalityApr 12, 2014 9:01 am - Four years ago, Google was confronted with a troubling stat: Its male engineers were getting promoted at far higher rates than female employees. Google could not underst...
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Google licenses Room 77 software in mobile travel-booking pushApr 12, 2014 9:01 am - Google Inc. wants you to reserve a hotel room from your smartphone, and it's spending money on the technology to make it happen. The biggest Internet-search company is l...
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BlackBerry sets goal to cut device dependenceApr 12, 2014 8:22 am - BlackBerry Ltd.'s John Chen is giving himself two years to overhaul the smartphone maker and offset declining handset demand with sales of software that connects compute...