Information Technology
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More ads hit online TV as Web audiences growJun 11, 2011 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES — One of the rewards of watching TV online is not having to sit through as many commercials. Now the networks are chipping away at that little luxury. CBS sh...
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PC maker sues Google over Chrome PCsJun 11, 2011 7:00 am - NEW YORK — A small computer maker and patent holding company, ISYS Technologies Inc., said it has filed a lawsuit against Google Inc. to stop it from marketing PCs runni...
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New idea for cleaners: Just add electricityJun 11, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — It sounds like a late-night infomercial: Kill germs and clean surfaces with nothing more than water and a few volts of electricity! Pay pennies a gallon! Stro...
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Twitter automates link shrinking to cut charactersJun 11, 2011 6:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter is offering to automatically shrink your links so they fit within the service’s 140-character limit. Link-shortening services such as bit.ly conv...
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HTC Flyer tablet mates with slippery penJun 11, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — Is it better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all? That’s the question posed by a new tablet computer that takes aim at one of the deficien...
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Pfizer starts first ‘virtual’ clinical study in U.S.Jun 11, 2011 6:00 am - TRENTON, N.J. — Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. is running the first U.S. clinical study in which patients participate by using mobile phones and the Internet, rather than repeate...
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New sensor network protecting art in museumJun 11, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — It will take a good eye to spot them, but dozens of tiny, very modern works of art have been installed near the 15th-century unicorn tapestries and other medi...
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Apple’s cloud music could finally make pirates payJun 11, 2011 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES — Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs this week introduced more than just a cloud storage system for songs that fans buy legitimately through iTunes. He unveiled a sys...
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Review: Keyless Nook beats Kindle for easy e-readingJun 11, 2011 6:00 am - As impressed as I am with Amazon.com Inc. for launching the electronic-book market, there’s one thing about the groundbreaking Kindle that I could do without: its keyboa...
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Electronic Arts brings ‘Sims’ game to FacebookJun 11, 2011 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES — Major video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. is bringing its popular “The Sims” role-playing game to Facebook. EA made the announcement on the sidelines...