Information Technology
-
PayPal to offer in-store payments thru DiscoverAug 25, 2012 5:45 am - SAN JOSE, Calif. — PayPal is expanding its brick-and-mortar payment services to more than 7 million stores across the U.S. in a partnership with Discover Financial Servi...
-
Samsung ordered to pay Apple $1 billionAug 24, 2012 6:07 pm - Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. — After a year of scorched-earth litigation, a jury decided Friday that Samsung ripped off the innovative technology used by Apple to c...
-
ComEd progressing on network improvementsAug 24, 2012 5:19 pm - ComEd officials Friday said the utility has overhauled storm response systems, introducing Facebook and other methods for customers to report outages, while continui...
-
American Eagle Mechanics, Bag Handlers Split on Concessions (1) c.2012 Bloomberg News (Updates with AMR comment in fourth paragraph.)Aug 24, 2012 4:31 pm - Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) -- American Eagle mechanics rejected a new contract with parent AMR Corp. to reduce labor costs as the company restructures in bankruptcy, while bagg...
-
South Korean court rules Samsung didn’t copy iPhoneAug 24, 2012 7:06 am - SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s Samsung won a home court ruling in its global smartphone battle against Apple on Friday when judges in Seoul said the company didn’t c...
-
State gives tax breaks to aerospace companyAug 24, 2012 1:00 am - Gov. Pat Quinn says energy and aerospace company Woodward Inc. will receive tax incentives from Illinois for its new $200 million Rockford-area manufacturing campus. Th...
-
FoodMafia offers new app for on-the-go foodiesAug 23, 2012 5:15 pm - Stacy Johnson wanted to go to a reliable resource that provides a realistic view about local restaurants. “I was obsessed with food and always wanted to try some new est...
-
High School District 211 gives out iPads to 1,500 studentsAug 23, 2012 12:00 pm - In the world of today's teenagers, technological devices and the endless possibilities of the Internet accompany kids everywhere they go. To not exclude school life from...
-
Jurors to resume deliberations in Apple Samsung caseAug 23, 2012 7:00 am - SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jurors were set to begin their second day of deliberations Thursday in a multibillion dollar patent infringement case pitting Apple against Samsung ov...
-
Infrastructure problems disrupt Internet to SyriaAug 23, 2012 6:53 am - ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s telecommunications company says its Internet services to neighboring Syria have come to a halt due to infrastructure problems in the war-torn c...