Information Technology
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Google's Schmidt sees robots becoming omnipresentMar 08, 2014 7:02 am - LOS ANGELES - Google Chairman Eric Schmidt says his company is experimenting with automation in ways that will "replace a lot of the repetitive behavior in our lives." "...
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Push for Web addresses in era of search, appsMar 08, 2014 7:00 am - BARCELONA, Spain — In the early days, you typed in a domain name address to reach a website. Then came the ability to reach websites directly through a search engine. Th...
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Promise and peril in an ultra-connected worldMar 08, 2014 6:56 am - BARCELONA, Spain - We're in the beginning of a world in which everything is connected to the Internet and with one another, while powerful yet relatively cheap computers...
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Facebook expands server farm in SwedenMar 08, 2014 6:42 am - STOCKHOLM - Facebook plans to build a new data center at its server farm in northern Sweden, less than a year after opening the plant, its first outside the United State...
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Privacy advocates want Facebook's purchase of WhatsApp haltedMar 08, 2014 6:12 am - WASHINGTON - When 450 million WhatsApp subscribers signed up for the mobile messaging service, they probably never thought their personal data might one day be shared wi...
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Twitter paid $36 million for 900 IBM patentsMar 08, 2014 6:00 am - Twitter Inc., the microblogging service that held an initial public offering last year, paid $36 million to acquire 900 patents from International Business Machines Corp...
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Twitter installing log cabins at headquartersMar 08, 2014 6:00 am - NOVATO, Calif. — Employees at Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco will soon get to take their lunch break in 19th century relics. The Marin Independent Journal repor...
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App reviews: SwiftKey, QuickOfficeMar 08, 2014 5:39 am - SwiftKey for iOS Failures in predictive text algorithms may be great fodder for humor websites, but those goofy typos can be maddening. SwiftKey has been one of the...
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Gadget Watch: Fastlane in Nokia X shows promiseMar 08, 2014 5:00 am - BARCELONA, Spain — By design, Nokia's new Android smartphones will underwhelm users of high-end phones. The Nokia X line was created with emerging markets in mind, so th...
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Facebook is paying for a beat copMar 08, 2014 5:00 am - When you see a cop on the street in the U.S., your mind might go a lot of places, but you're probably not wondering who's paying her. Police salaries in the U.S. come ou...