Information Technology
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Review: Pebble watch is a great way to be buggedJul 20, 2013 7:00 am - NEW YORK — You have a cellphone, maybe a tablet. Sometimes you lug around a laptop. Do you really need one more gadget on you? Yes, you do. You need a smart watch. At le...
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Google to get bigger Washington D.C. digsJul 20, 2013 6:28 am - WASHINGTON — Google is dramatically expanding its Washington offices and relocating them to within a couple of blocks of the U.S. Capitol. The tech giant signed a lease ...
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Tech slump holds back stocksJul 19, 2013 6:16 pm - NEW YORK — A bad day for technology stocks Friday slowed a recent surge in the stock market. Microsoft led the slump in tech, falling the most in more than four years af...
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FAA wants Dreamliner transmitters inspectedJul 19, 2013 6:13 pm - WASHINGTON — U.S. aviation officials say they want the emergency locator transmitters on all Boeing 787 “Dreamliners” inspected following a fire this week aboard one of ...
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Deadly derailment won’t stop oil on trainsJul 19, 2013 3:56 pm - NEW YORK — A fiery and fatal train derailment earlier this month in Quebec, near the Maine border, highlighted the danger of moving oil by rail, a practice that has grow...
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Researchers find no tainted water near fracking siteJul 19, 2013 3:52 pm - Energy Department researchers so far have found “nothing of concern” in a study of whether chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing for natural gas at one site in Pennsylv...
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Northrop Grumman awarded logistics contractJul 17, 2013 9:32 am - ROLLING MEADOWS — Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded a $173 million performance-based logistics contract to provide support and sustainment services for the LITENIN...
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Yahoo wins court fight in data collection caseJul 16, 2013 6:57 am - LOS ANGELES — Yahoo has won a court fight that could help the public learn more about the government’s efforts to obtain data from Internet users. The U.S. Foreign Intel...
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Judge to mull if airlines owe WTC owners over 9/11Jul 13, 2013 1:14 pm - NEW YORK — A judge plans to decide whether the owners of the World Trade Center can try to make several airlines and other aviation defendants pay billions of dollars in...
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Agency: Dreamliner fire not caused by batteriesJul 13, 2013 1:06 pm - LONDON — A fire onboard an empty Boeing 787 aircraft at London’s Heathrow Airport didn’t appear to be caused by faulty batteries on the plane, a British investigative ag...