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Fantasy sports widows: Don’t get mad, get celeb-edJul 22, 2012 7:03 am - NEW YORK — Widowed by hubby’s fantasy sports obsession? Don’t get mad, get Kim Kardashian. Or Tom Cruise. Or Kate Middleton. Fantasy sports leagues are big business onli...
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iPad serves all-you-can-eat magazine banquetJul 21, 2012 8:50 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Movie fans have Netflix. For music lovers, there’s Spotify. So why not an all-you-can-eat service for magazine readers? Now there is one: Next Issue, a n...
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The most common passwords from the Yahoo mail leakJul 21, 2012 7:54 am - We learned last week that about 400,000 Yahoo Mail passwords were apparently leaked. Another annoying bit of news for those who struggle to come up with new secret codes...
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Review: Internet-focused alternative in Chrome PCsJul 21, 2012 7:50 am - ATLANTA — Two new computers running Google’s Chrome operating system are looking to lure people to a browser-based environment. Both target light-duty computer users who...
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Study: Viewers turning to YouTube as news sourceJul 21, 2012 6:47 am - NEW YORK — A new study has found that YouTube has become a major platform for news, one where viewers are turning for eyewitness videos in times of major events and natu...
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The iPad is replacing evening newsJul 14, 2012 7:29 am - Old people love to read the news on the iPad. So says a new study by the Reynolds Journalism Institute, which finds that while youngsters like to read the news on their ...
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How to make sure you won’t lose all Internet access on MondayJul 07, 2012 7:56 am - If you want to make sure you’ll still be able to use the Internet when you wake up Monday morning, go to this website right now (http://www.dcwg.org/), click “Detect,” a...
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VidCon attracts online video makers and their fansJul 07, 2012 7:30 am - ANAHEIM, Calif. — A long line of teenagers has formed inside a cavernous convention center. They’re waiting to nab an autograph from Rebecca Black, the girl who achieved...
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Google phasing out ‘iGoogle’ in latest purgeJul 07, 2012 7:22 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Google is phasing out a service that allows millions of people to personalize its home page with applications such as weather updates and stock quotes. T...
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Can you be fired for what you post on Facebook?Jul 07, 2012 7:00 am - On a Saturday morning in October 2010, Mariana Cole-Rivera, a domestic violence advocate at the group Hispanics United of Buffalo, began the Facebook thread that would g...