Information Technology
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Carmakers at center stage at tech trade show in JapanOct 06, 2013 6:00 am - CEATEC Japan 2013, a trade show displaying state-of-the-art information technology devices and digital home appliances, began in Chiba, Japan, on Tuesday. Honda Motor Co...
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Apple overtakes Coca-Cola as world’s most valuable brandOct 05, 2013 9:02 am - Apple has unseated Coca-Cola as the world’s No. 1 brand, as the company founded by Steve Jobs is a leader in design and performance, according to a study of the Top 100 ...
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Apps, tech try to ease stressOct 05, 2013 8:51 am - Smartphones and tablets that enable us to stay constantly connected aren’t exactly synonymous with rest and relaxation. But a slew of new apps and online programs are tr...
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Hospital launches pediatric tech centerOct 05, 2013 8:48 am - WASHINGTON — Children’s National Medical Center in Washington and Cerner, a health care technology provider based in Kansas City, Mo., are each investing several million...
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Google retools search engineOct 05, 2013 8:04 am - MENLO PARK, Calif. — Google has quietly retooled the closely guarded formula running its Internet search engine to give better answers to the increasingly complex questi...
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Father of Prius sees long road to ditching gasOct 05, 2013 7:56 am - Toyota Chairman Takeshi Uchiyamada rode his pioneering work on the Prius hybrid to the top of the world’s biggest car company. But that doesn’t mean he is a zealot when ...
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Japan, U.S. to adopt cyber-defense guidelinesOct 05, 2013 7:56 am - TOKYO — The Japanese and U.S. governments will incorporate a policy on how to respond to cyberattacks in the Japan-U.S. defense cooperation guidelines, a move aimed at c...
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Review: New Amazon Kindles add help with a human faceOct 05, 2013 7:46 am - Here’s the most important feature of Amazon’s new Kindle Fire HDX color tablets: Operators are standing by. Actually, they’re technical-support people, summonable from t...
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Facebook beefing up Graph Search featureOct 05, 2013 7:14 am - When Facebook announced in January that it was coming out with a search function, people flipped out about the privacy implications. As it turned out, though, Facebook’s...
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Wearable technology raise alarms for privacy advocatesOct 05, 2013 7:04 am - WASHINGTON — Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smart watch is set to hit U.S. stores this week, part of a new wave of wearable technology that some fear could open a largely unregul...