Information Technology
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Kohl’s, Intel lead in ranking of renewable energy usersJul 03, 2011 6:00 am - Intel Corp., the world’s largest chip maker, and the U.S. department-store chain Kohl’s Corp. are the top corporate users of renewable energy, Bloomberg New Energy Finan...
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Microsoft fights Google with web-based officeJul 02, 2011 6:15 am - Microsoft Corp. is updating its online corporate software offerings to include a full Internet- based version of Office 2010 for the first time, an effort to stave off c...
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Obama 2012 campaign to go veyond email, textJul 02, 2011 6:15 am - Call him the Digital Candidate: President Barack Obama is asking supporters to use Facebook to declare “I’m In!” for his re-election campaign and is using Twitter to per...
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New brand of hackers just out for publicityJul 02, 2011 6:15 am - LONDON — Can you be famous if no one knows your name? A new band of hackers is giving it its best shot, trumpeting its cyber-capers in an all-sirens-flashing publicity c...
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Sprint CEO launches 18-state push to stop AT&TJul 02, 2011 6:15 am - Dan Hesse’s White Room is closely guarded even within Sprint Nextel Corp. The chief executive officer carries the only key and draws black curtains over his scribblings ...
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‘Angry Birds’ CEO hatching movie plansJul 02, 2011 6:15 am - On a recent visit with his two children to a toy museum in Espoo, Finland, Mikael Hed was struck by a display of action figures from George Lucas’s “Star Wars” series. “...
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Nextflix, Hulu cut across countries’ bordersJul 02, 2011 6:15 am - NEW YORK — You may have seen the original BBC version of “The Office,” but have you seen the sketch show “A Bit of Fry & Laurie” with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry? What ...
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Mobile apps, quick response codes help sell homesJul 02, 2011 6:15 am - It’s second nature for many consumers to research any big-ticket purchase online before they pony up their hard-earned money. So why should buying a house be any differe...
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Google Plus increases pressure on FacebookJul 02, 2011 6:15 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Google is making a fresh attempt at social networking with a service that competes with Facebook. The service, called Google Plus, has a similar appearan...
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Study: 12 percent of U.S. households own e-readerJul 02, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — A study finds that 12 percent of U.S. households now own a reading device for electronic books, such as Amazon’s Kindle. That’s three times the number of hous...