Information Technology
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Buying a car online can easier for womenAug 11, 2013 6:00 am - NEW YORK — When I wrote last spring about the ways the auto industry still fails to understand women — especially at car dealerships — I didn't realize that a few months...
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Ten years after blackout, grid faces new threatsAug 10, 2013 7:24 pm - The U.S. electrical grid is better managed and more flexible a decade after its largest blackout but remains vulnerable to increasingly extreme weather, cybersecurity th...
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Google’s Moto X phone hugs middle of the roadAug 10, 2013 7:42 am - The screen on Motorola’s new Moto X smartphone doesn’t have the highest resolution. Storage capacity is limited and the processor isn’t the most potent. It doesn’t even ...
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Review: Google photo tools won’t replace humansAug 10, 2013 7:27 am - PROVIDENCE, R.I. — It can take months, even years, for me to share photos from a trip. The more shots I take, the more I dread going through them to delete bad shots and...
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Why Apple, Google are the best of enemiesAug 10, 2013 7:26 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — Last week my colleague Matt Yglesias and I took turns playing out a fantastical 10-part shooting war between Apple and Google. We had fun doing it, a...
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App reviews: Papyrus, GridAug 10, 2013 7:24 am - Papyrus For many, digital note-taking, particularly on the fly, has yet to really surpass the traditional notepad. Sure, lots of people type faster than they write,...
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Why you should be using the wallet app VenmoAug 10, 2013 7:16 am - WASHINGTON — I usually find it distasteful to evangelize a smartphone app. But within the past year, I’ve given this spiel to any smartphone owner I go out to eat with: ...
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Twitter buzz helps boost TV-show ratings, Nielsen findsAug 10, 2013 7:11 am - Twitter Inc. users, sending status updates in 140-character bursts on the social-networking site, can increase television ratings by sharing their thoughts while a show ...
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Review: First peek through Google Glass impressesAug 10, 2013 6:37 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Google hopes to change the face of technology by persuading people to wear computers on their heads. That’s the inspiration behind Google Glass, a specta...
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With wearable technology, a new independence for people with disabilitiesAug 10, 2013 6:37 am - It’s been 18 years since Tammie Lou Van Sant held a camera. But nearly two decades after a car accident left her paralyzed from the chest down, Van Sant is shooting agai...