Information Technology
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To spin or not to spin: Does Microsoft need Xbox?Nov 22, 2013 8:44 am - LOS ANGELES — Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates donned a cool leather jacket when he first introduced the Xbox onstage in 2000. More than a decade later, the video game cons...
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Web inventor: Surveillance threatens democracyNov 22, 2013 8:35 am - LONDON — The scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web says a growing tide of surveillance is threatening democracy’s future. Tim Berners-Lee, who developed t...
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Verizon starts transforming suburban stores into lifestyle centersNov 21, 2013 10:03 am - Verizon Wireless, which has its Midwest headquarters in Schaumburg, has unveiled its first four so-called Smart Stores in the suburbs that will allow consumers to sh...
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Context 4 Healthcare to partner with DataGenixNov 20, 2013 8:41 am - NAPERVILLE — Health care industry software provider Context 4 Healthcare Inc. announced a partnership with DataGenix Corp., a provider of enterprise-class software syste...
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Xbox One a great game player — and moreNov 20, 2013 7:45 am - What is the Xbox One? If you’re a video-game aficionado, you know the answer: It’s Microsoft’s latest game console, and it arrives in North America and Europe on Friday....
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Paylocity ranked among fastest growing companiesNov 19, 2013 8:01 am - ARLINGTON HEIGHTS — Paylocity has been included on the Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500T, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life ...
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Hyundai to sell hydrogen-powered SUV in 2014Nov 19, 2013 5:44 am - DETROIT — For years, the joke in the auto industry was that a mass-produced car that runs on hydrogen was always a decade away. That will change next year when Hyundai s...
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Beyond Twitter: The next wave of tech IPOs brewsNov 17, 2013 6:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Just as one high-tech breakthrough often paves the way for the next big thing, technology IPOs move in virtuous cycles, too. Twitter’s scintillating stoc...
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Twitter in celebrity spat with Facebook as rivalry deepensNov 16, 2013 6:38 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Katy Perry, Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga are the most followed celebrities on Twitter, yet the pop stars have even more “likes” on Facebook. Now the world...
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Can Musk’s cousin do for solar power what Tesla did for electric cars?Nov 16, 2013 6:34 am - By Will Oremus, Slate In 2004, Lyndon Rive was in a recreational vehicle on his way to the Burning Man festival when his cousin gave him five words of advice: “You shoul...