Information Technology
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Wired South Korea to stem digital addiction from age 3Dec 01, 2012 6:51 am - SEOUL, South Korea — Park Jung-in, an 11-year-old South Korean, sleeps with her Android smartphone instead of a teddy bear. When the screen beams with a morning alarm, s...
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How Google saves money by wearing shortsDec 01, 2012 6:42 am - In September, The New York Times ran a provocative front-page story about the data centers that power the Internet. “A yearlong examination by The New York Times has rev...
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App reviews: Xbox Smart Glass, Angry Birds Star WarsDec 01, 2012 6:33 am - XBox Smart Glass Microsoft recently updated its Xbox Live app with a host of new features — and a new name: Xbox Smart Glass. This app lets users control limited pa...
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Review: Rooming with strangers — a game of trustDec 01, 2012 6:28 am - NEW YORK — “Do we still have a TV?” That’s the text message I got from my husband as I walked up the steps to our Brooklyn apartment on a Friday afternoon this fall. I w...
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Tech gifts you can buy for under $100Dec 01, 2012 6:19 am - Battery pack Pro: You can never have too much battery power Con: Needs to be charged on its own Best for: Motor-mouthed mobile Web surfers Retail price: $49.99 Just...
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Churning butter, revisiting an olde technologyDec 01, 2012 6:13 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — A few years ago, on a lark, I decided to make butter. This sounds like it might be some kind of arduous, gourmand pursuit, but it was quite simple. F...
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Rising tech job boom eventually lifts boats elsewhere in San FranciscoDec 01, 2012 6:07 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Nerds are no longer the only ones benefiting from the innovation boom. Having left the heavy lifting to technology companies until early this year, San F...
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China mafia-style hack attack drives California firm to brinkDec 01, 2012 6:02 am - WASHINGTON — During his civil lawsuit against the People’s Republic of China, Brian Milburn says he never once saw one of the country’s lawyers. He read no court documen...
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Crews facing deadline on Indiana wind farm projectNov 30, 2012 5:06 pm - WINDFALL, Ind. — Construction crews are hustling to beat a Dec. 31 deadline to finish 125 turbines in the first phase of a wind farm that is eventually planned to reach ...
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Drugmaker Ranbaxy halts generic Lipitor productionNov 30, 2012 3:54 pm - Problem-plagued Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc. has halted production of generic cholesterol drug Lipitor while it investigates how tiny glass particles got into the ingred...