Information Technology
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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...
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Boeing wins Air China ordersMar 01, 2013 2:44 pm - Air China Ltd., the nation’s biggest carrier by market value, agreed to buy two Boeing Co. 747-8 aircraft in the planemaker’s first sale of the models this year. Air Chi...
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SpaceX working to fix capsule’s thrustersMar 01, 2013 12:42 pm - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A commercial vessel carrying a ton of supplies for the International Space Station ran into thruster trouble shortly after liftoff Friday, and fli...
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Apple shareholder drops lawsuit on preferred stockMar 01, 2013 12:36 pm - SAN FRANCISCO — A disgruntled shareholder pressing Apple to create a new class of preferred stock has dropped a lawsuit that became a moot point after the iPhone and iPa...
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Wheeling students ace Real World Design ChallengeMar 01, 2013 11:26 am - A team of talented students from Wheeling High School won the Illinois state-level Real World Design Challenge on Jan. 18 with their design for an unmanned aircraft syst...
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In death, Facebook photos could fade away foreverMar 01, 2013 6:04 am - BEAVERTON, Ore. — A grieving Oregon mother who battled Facebook for full access to her deceased son’s account has been pushing for years for something that would prevent...
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Companies struggle to popularize mobile moneyMar 01, 2013 5:09 am - BARCELONA, Spain — Mobile money may seem like a hot concept, but consumers aren’t warming to it. At the world’s largest cellphone trade show, here in Barcelona this wee...
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Groupon fires CEO, still faces underlying problemsMar 01, 2013 5:07 am - NEW YORK — Now that Groupon has gotten rid of its quirky founder and CEO, the chief question is whether the company’s underlying online deals business is promising enoug...
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Facebook buying Atlas ad business from MicrosoftFeb 28, 2013 4:57 pm - SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is buying a set of online advertising tools called Atlas from Microsoft in its latest attempt to build a more effective marketing system around ...