Information Technology
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Apple using iCloud to lock in users after online misfiresOct 15, 2011 5:00 am - Apple Inc.’s iCloud service, part of its first product release since the Oct. 5 death of Steve Jobs, may cement the loyalty of millions of consumers lured by Jobs’s pion...
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Popular Pandora slow to lure mobile-ad dollarsOct 15, 2011 5:00 am - Pandora Media Inc.’s online music service is so popular among smartphone users that it’s the most-downloaded free music program on Apple’s and Google’s app stores. So fa...
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As IPO looms, Zynga adding more ways to play gamesOct 15, 2011 5:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Zynga is adding more ways for people to play its Web games as it grooms its business for an initial public offering of stock that is aiming to raise $1 b...
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Hewlett-Packard gains PC market share after mulling spinoffOct 15, 2011 5:00 am - Hewlett-Packard Co.’s proposal to spin off its personal-computer business didn’t scare off many PC buyers last quarter, with its U.S. and global market share increasing ...
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EBay’s Magento, GSI developers to build Facebook featuresOct 15, 2011 5:00 am - EBay Inc., the world’s largest Internet marketplace, unveiled tools designed to increase the use of its commerce and payment services on Facebook, the biggest social net...
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Cray to upgrade fastest U.S. supercomputerOct 15, 2011 5:00 am - NEW YORK — Supercomputer builder Cray Inc. will upgrade the Department of Energy’s Jaguar computer so it can run nearly 10 times faster and challenge a Japanese computer...
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A nation outnumbered by gadgetsOct 15, 2011 5:00 am - The machines ARE taking over At least that’s the case with cellphones and other mobile devices, which for the first time outnumber human beings in the United States, the...
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Itchy consumers find bedbug websiteOct 14, 2011 5:45 am - The heavy media coverage of bedbugs invading many hotels nationwide has been a boon for Adam Greenberg of Northbrook. His online business, USBedBugs.com, has seen an upt...
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Motorola Mobility sets Nov. 17 vote on Google dealOct 14, 2011 12:00 am - Libertyville-based cCellphone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. said Friday that its shareholders will vote Nov. 17 on whether the company should accept Google Inc.'...
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GE says solar panels achieve 14 percent efficiencyOct 14, 2011 12:00 am - General Electric Co., the world’s biggest maker of power-generating equipment, said it will produce thin-film solar panels that convert at least 14 percent of the energy...