Information Technology
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Mid-2013 expansion for Internet names targetedMar 02, 2013 6:53 am - NEW YORK — Hundreds of Internet address suffixes to rival “.com” should be available for people and businesses to use by the end of the year, the head of an Internet ove...
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Momentum grows for alternative phone system TizenMar 02, 2013 6:50 am - BARCELONA, Spain — The junior league of smartphone operating systems is getting more competitive. Phones from yet another contender — Tizen — will go on sale this year w...
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Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg urge kids to codeMar 02, 2013 6:50 am - NEW YORK — Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter creator Jack Dorsey are among the tech luminaries appearing in a new video promoting t...
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Review: Google’s Chromebook Pixel is upscale overkillMar 02, 2013 6:49 am - I’m writing these words on a lovely new laptop. It’s thin, light and made of machined aluminum, but it isn’t a MacBook. It’s got a beautiful touch screen, but it isn’t a...
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s misstepMar 02, 2013 6:37 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — It was nearly a decade ago that I stopped going into the office every day. I worked at a competing Web magazine at the time, and my bosses didn’t rea...
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Smart watches gain interest and popularityMar 02, 2013 6:34 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — On a sunny day at a picnic table in Silicon Valley, Eric Migicovsky glanced down at his wristwatch. He wasn’t checking the time, he was checking his ...
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Review: Strong passwords and other security tipsMar 02, 2013 6:19 am - NEW YORK — Rarely does a week go by without news of another hacking incident, whether it’s Chinese hackers accused of breaking in to The New York Times’ computer systems...
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Email, voicemail, text — no response. What gives?Mar 02, 2013 6:08 am - Technology is supposed to make us easier to reach, and often does. But the same modes of communication that have hooked us on the instant reply also can leave us feeling...
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Smart ‘stickers’ let you find things by phoneMar 02, 2013 6:00 am - BARCELONA, Spain — Jimmy Buchheim is behaving oddly. On the floor of the world’s largest cellphone trade show in Barcelona, Spain, he’s looking at the screen of his iPo...
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Wireless connections creep into everyday thingsMar 02, 2013 6:00 am - BARCELONA, Spain — A car that tells your insurance company how you’re driving. A bathroom scale that lets you chart your weight on the Web. And a meter that warns your a...