Information Technology
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The apps that eat your wireless dataJul 09, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — If you have a smartphone with a monthly data limit, here are some tips on what types of phone use will gobble up your precious megabytes: Ÿ Streaming video an...
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Alert system to notify consumers of online piracyJul 09, 2011 6:00 am - WASHINGTON — Hollywood studios, recording labels, artists and Internet service providers have created a program to alert Internet subscribers when their accounts are use...
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Review: Google Plus a thoughtful answer to FacebookJul 09, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — My first thought about Google Plus: “Here we go again.” After Google’s earlier attempts at social networking failed spectacularly, it was easy to scoff at thi...
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Cuba reports 16 percent online in some capacityJul 09, 2011 6:00 am - HAVANA — About 16 percent of Cubans are online in some capacity with access to email, the island’s intranet or the World Wide Web, a government agency says. Cuba’s Natio...
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DuPage park districts organize teen texting contestJul 09, 2011 12:00 am - How fast can you text? Do your thumbs fly over the keys when sending a message from your cellphone? How does your “texterity” measure up? Texting competitions are the n...
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`Elric' download, print copy available the same dayJul 08, 2011 11:00 pm - PHILADELPHIA — Taking another step toward offering comics in stores and digitally on the same day, publisher BOOM! Studios says its new series, “Elric: The Balance Lost”...
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Will third time be the charm?Jul 08, 2011 12:00 am - Motorola Mobility launches Droid 3 smartphone
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Netflix to stream movies, shows in Latin AmericaJul 05, 2011 12:00 am - LOS GATOS, Calif. — Netflix is expanding its movie and TV show streaming service into 43 countries throughout Latin America in the online movie rental company’s largest ...
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India's rural poor give up on power grid, go solarJul 03, 2011 6:00 am - NADA, India — Boommi Gowda used to fear the night. Her vision fogged by glaucoma, she could not see by just the dim glow of a kerosene lamp, so she avoided going outside...
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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...