Information Technology
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Learn to Skype, use Facebook and more in SchaumburgJul 09, 2013 12:00 pm - Always wanted to try Skyping your grandchildren? Confused about password safety and Internet protection? Want to read your favorite newspaper on your new tablet, but uns...
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Gurnee to offer private social media for neighborhoodsJul 09, 2013 5:30 am - Gurnee has linked with a San Francisco-based company to offer private social media in village neighborhoods so residents can share useful information. Officials began pu...
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Microsoft to buy certain Blue Horseshoe technologyJul 08, 2013 9:03 am - CARMEL, Ind. — Blue Horseshoe said Monday that it reached a deal to sell certain lines of warehousing and transportation supply chain technology to Microsoft Corp. for a...
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Review: Price for simplicity in new Google phonesJul 06, 2013 8:32 am - NEW YORK — Two new Android phones will look and sound familiar to those who have been paying attention to phones. That’s because these two devices are replicas of Samsun...
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GM forges Honda fuel-cell alliance in renewed hydrogen pushJul 06, 2013 7:44 am - General Motors Co. and Honda Motor Co. are teaming up in a renewed push to market clean vehicles, with the two automotive giants seeking to have cheaper power- making fu...
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Netflix signs exclusive deal to rerun ‘New Girl’Jul 06, 2013 7:38 am - Netflix Inc., signed an exclusive multiyear deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television to stream past seasons of “New Girl” to its U.S. online members. The first season ...
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Apple Seeks ‘iWatch’ trademark in JapanJul 06, 2013 7:37 am - Apple Inc., the world’s most valuable technology company, is seeking a trademark for “iWatch” in Japan as rival Samsung Electronics Co. readies its own wearable computin...
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Can Firefox phone help save the web from Apple and Google?Jul 06, 2013 7:25 am - Mozilla, the nonprofit behind the Firefox web browser, will launch its first Firefox smartphone this week in Spain. It’s not clear when the phone is coming to the United...
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How to turn your cell phone into a dolphinJul 06, 2013 7:17 am - If you stand in the middle of Lausanne Cathedral in Switzerland and snap your fingers, the sound waves will project outward until they bounce off the stone walls, arches...
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Why laptop batteries are gaining powerJul 06, 2013 7:00 am - Never trust gadget-makers’ claims about battery life. They usually employ weasel words (a machine that alleges to last “up to” six hours between recharges is technically...