Information Technology
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Singles Day: China’s online shopping holidayNov 11, 2012 7:59 am - BEIJING — Lei Shujie, a designer in Shanghai, piled up a wish list for Sunday, a quirky holiday dubbed “Singles Day” that has grown into China’s — and possibly the world...
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Taiwan’s HTC settles patent disputes with AppleNov 11, 2012 7:59 am - TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp. has settled with Apple Inc. on their outstanding patent disputes. In a joint statement Sunday, the two companies sa...
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Emanuel welcomes new Turkish business centerNov 11, 2012 7:38 am - A new business center has opened in Chicago to promote trade, joint projects and other forms of cooperation between U.S. and Turkish companies. Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s offi...
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Emanuel talks high-tech ties with UK ambassadorNov 11, 2012 7:38 am - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has met with Britain’s ambassador to the United States to discuss ways of further developing relationships in the high-tech industry on both s...
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The new LED bulbs aren’t worth $50Nov 11, 2012 6:23 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — Last year I visited Switch Lighting, a small Silicon Valley company that claimed to have built something revolutionary. Switch’s product: a light bul...
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India wages hi-tech war on ancient TB scourgeNov 11, 2012 5:15 am - NEW DELHI — Shammo Khan walks into a dusty courtyard that reeks of garbage, searching for the fingerprint of a man exhausted by HIV, drug withdrawal and the tuberculosis...
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On election night, TV trounced TwitterNov 10, 2012 3:00 pm - PALO ALTO, Calif. — According to Twitter, there were 31 million tweets on Election Day, with the site hitting a peak of 327,452 tweets-per-minute the moment TV networks ...
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Thinking of Upgrading to Windows 8? Don’tNov 10, 2012 6:32 am - I’ve made a lot of computer blunders over the years. The biggest was taking a perfectly well- functioning Sony Vaio and upgrading it from Windows XP to Windows Vista, wh...
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Review: iPad Mini charms, but screen is a letdownNov 10, 2012 6:22 am - NEW YORK — I bet the iPad Mini is going to be on a lot of wish lists this holiday season. I also bet that for a lot of people, it’s not going to be the best choice. It’s...
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Plenty of reasons to worry about AppleNov 10, 2012 6:14 am - WASHINGTON — Many people have made themselves look foolish by taking a skeptical line on Apple over the past five years, but the time has come for me to make that call. ...