Information Technology
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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...
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Bosch plots Google domain invasion with connected appliancesApr 12, 2014 8:22 am - Robert Bosch GmbH, the world's largest car-parts maker and a producer of dishwashers and medical-device components, is plotting inroads into the world of Google Inc. wit...
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A guide to upgrading, using XP computerApr 12, 2014 8:17 am - NEW YORK ‑- Microsoft retired its 12-year-old Windows XP operating system Tuesday. Even so, there are still millions of XP computers out there. Here's what to do if you ...
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Review: Ups and downs with Google Glass appsApr 12, 2014 8:17 am - NEW YORK - Google Glass is like a fickle friend. Surprises await, such as the time it took a photo of my ceiling while I was making carrot and ginger soup. I've been usi...
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Nest disables feature on smoke alarmsApr 12, 2014 8:12 am - NEW YORK - The high-tech home monitoring device company Nest Labs is disabling a feature on its smoke alarms due to the risk that owners could unintentionally turn off t...
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Physicist wins $1.3M tech prize for data storageApr 12, 2014 8:09 am - HELSINKI - Anyone who uses large data centers, cloud services, social networks or gets music and film online can thank British-American physicist Stuart Parkin. Parkin w...