Information Technology
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Review: 3 weather phone apps help you on the goDec 08, 2012 6:41 am - CHARLESTON, W.Va. — For me, climate change is a serious issue. No, I’m not referring to the debate over global warming. My concerns are much simpler. I’m constantly chec...
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’The Daily’ doomed by dull content and isolationDec 08, 2012 6:37 am - LOS ANGELES — It was too expensive. It lacked editorial focus. And for a digital publication, it was strangely cut off from the Internet. That’s the obituary being writt...
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The greatest hoodie around, made in AmericaDec 08, 2012 6:31 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — Early in October, I got a call from Bayard Winthrop, an entrepreneur who claimed to have created the world’s best hooded sweatshirt. Because I found ...
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Amazon launches Kindle content service for kidsDec 08, 2012 6:22 am - NEW YORK — Amazon is launching a subscription service for children’s games, videos and books aimed at getting more kids to use its Kindle Fire tablet devices. Amazon.com...
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Targets of online criticism strike backDec 08, 2012 6:05 am - WASHINGTON — Angered by what she thought was shoddy work on her home, Fairfax, Va. resident Jane Perez did what has become the go-to form of retail vengeance in the Inte...
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Phone companies to relay 911 texts by May 2014Dec 07, 2012 2:43 pm - WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission says the nation’s four largest wireless carriers have agreed to relay text messages to text-enabled 911 call centers b...
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Fiscal cliff ads pick up where campaign stoppedDec 07, 2012 2:42 pm - WASHINGTON — Debate over the “fiscal cliff” has money pouring into television, print, radio and online ads, picking up where the wall-to-wall election campaign left off....
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Apple's softer side emerges under CEO CookDec 07, 2012 10:00 am - NEW YORK — “Those jobs aren't coming back.” That's what Steve Jobs reportedly told President Obama when asked at a dinner in early 2011 whether Apple would consider mov...
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Apple to produce line of Macs in the U.S. next yearDec 06, 2012 9:57 am - NEW YORK — Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company will produce one of its existing lines of Mac computers in the United States next year. Cook made the comments in part of ...
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McAfee hospitalized after being denied asylumDec 06, 2012 9:57 am - GUATEMALA CITY — Software company founder John McAfee was hospitalized Thursday after being denied political asylum in Guatemala and his lawyers said they were making a ...