Information Technology
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Review: Nook Tablet is Kindle Fire’s worthy foeNov 26, 2011 4:13 am - NEW YORK — Listen, and I’ll tell you the story of the bookstore chain that stormed into the hottest category in consumer electronics and conquered. It’s a nice underdog ...
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A viral war against the piracy actNov 26, 2011 4:11 am - As Web firms recently pressed Congress to free them from liability for pirated content on their sites, they turned to a natural lobbying technique: starting a viral camp...
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AT&T to record $4 billion costs on T-Mobile deal risksNov 25, 2011 4:00 am - AT&T Inc., whose $39 billion bid for T-Mobile USA is challenged by the U.S. Justice Department, will record one-time costs of $4 billion this quarter to reflect the risk...
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Thousands queue in Indonesia to buy new BlackberryNov 24, 2011 11:00 pm - JAKARTA, Indonesia — Thousands of Indonesians jammed into a glitzy shopping mall Friday to get hold of the first BlackBerry Bold 9790s being sold worldwide. Fearing a ri...
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Teqworks in Batavia helps businesses with IT needsNov 21, 2011 4:00 am - An interview with co-owner Matt Sidman Q: Describe your business. What do you do? A: Teqworks serves as an in-house IT department that keeps technology systems work...
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Gates testifies in $1B lawsuit against MicrosoftNov 20, 2011 10:00 pm - SALT LAKE CITY — Bill Gates wanted the top word processor on the market to be included in Windows 95, and by 1994, that just happened to be his own Word program, the Mic...
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Google Music chases iTunes 8 years too lateNov 19, 2011 6:05 am - Google Inc. is entering the online music market almost a decade too late to pose a threat to Apple Inc., the largest seller of songs on the Web. The service, unveiled at...
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Dennis Hong: A star in humanoid roboticsNov 19, 2011 6:05 am - On a visit to the American Museum of Natural History in New York three years ago, Dennis Hong was captivated not by the giant blue whale, or the Tyrannosaurus rex skelet...
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Android more vulnerable to virusesNov 19, 2011 5:31 am - In the era of the personal computer, Apple Inc.’s machines were often less vulnerable to security threats than the alternatives. That may also be the case with the rise ...
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Government, firms try to ward off attacksNov 19, 2011 5:17 am - Warnings of a cyber Pearl Harbor. Major breaches of classified computer networks. Hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of corporate data stolen by hackers. It’s easy t...