Information Technology
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France Telecom agrees to sell Orange SwitzerlandDec 31, 2011 7:00 am - PARIS — France Telecom says it has agreed to sell its Swiss mobile phone subsidiary to a British private equity group. France Telecom and Apax Partners, which advises a ...
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Tribe’s high-interest online lending venture boomsDec 31, 2011 7:00 am - HELENA, Mont. — An Indian reservation in the heart of Montana’s farm country may seem an unlikely place to borrow a quick $600, but the Chippewa Cree tribe says it has a...
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Viacom disputes $383M earn-out bill to HarmonixDec 31, 2011 7:00 am - NEW YORK — Viacom Inc. has filed a lawsuit to dispute the finding of accountants appointed to resolve a contract battle between it and the maker of the “Rock Band” video...
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2011 'best holiday ever' for Kindle, Amazon saysDec 31, 2011 7:00 am - SEATTLE — Online retailer Amazon says 2011 was the best holiday ever for its Kindle-brand e-readers and tablet computers. Amazon.com Inc. said this week that people boug...
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As websites come and go, so could your digital treasuresDec 31, 2011 7:00 am - The Washington Post= As a flood of family photos, videos and holiday greetings hits the Internet this time of year, online users will be swarming the social networking a...
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Internet names expansion should be reviewed, senator saysDec 31, 2011 7:00 am - WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jay Rockefeller is asking federal officials to seek a review of plans to add hundreds of Web suffixes beyond .com and .org. The expansion by the Inter...
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Review: Scrutinizing your presence on FacebookDec 31, 2011 7:00 am - NEW YORK — Here’s one way to sum up 2011: I added 71 people as Facebook friends, shared 26 links and commented on 98 of my friends’ status updates. I was tagged in 33 ph...
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NASA probe circling the moon on New Year's EveDec 30, 2011 11:00 pm - PASADENA, Calif. —As planet Earth rang in the new year, a different kind of countdown was happening at the moon. After a 3 ½-month journey, a NASA spacecraft flew over ...
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Top tech stories in the suburbs in 2011Dec 28, 2011 11:00 pm - While analysts pontificate about the highlights of the technology industry this year, plenty of advances and innovation could be found around our own suburbs. You don’t ...
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White ear buds out; pricey headphones inDec 25, 2011 4:00 am - NEW YORK — When iPods hit the scene 10 years ago, the small, white ear buds that came with the devices became the symbol for listening to music on the go. Today, that's...