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New Google data illustrates Microsoft’s piracy problems
SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s Internet search engine receives more complaints about websites believed to be infringing on Microsoft’s copyrights than it does about material produced by entertainment com...
May 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Facebook launches iPhone camera app
NEW YORK — Facebook’s rocky initial public offering hasn’t stopped life at the world’s biggest online social network. On Thursday, the company unveiled a camera app for the iPhone. The app can b...
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Associated Press Yahoo's "Axis" app for iPad is shown. The tool, also available for iPhone and iPod Touch, alters browsers made by other companies so search results can be displayed in a more convenient and compelling format.
Yahoo seeks to shake up search, Web browsing
SAN FRANCISCO — Joining the battle to redefine Internet search, Yahoo is taking aim with a new browser enhancement it calls “Axis.” It alters browsers made by other companies to display search resu...
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TechBits
Little Rock’s Windstream pushes its data business LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Fast-growing Windstream Corp. plans to spend more than $1 billion this year as it moves from being a landline phone company ...
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Associated Press Scott Hussa (left) and Ken Minn display their HuMn wallet (above) in Portland, Ore. It is a slim aluminum or carbon fiber wallet that blocks radio frequency identification. Despite two decades in the finance world, Ken Minn turned to a new vein of funding to cover his own startup's costs and bring its first product to market. He and business partner Scott Hussa designed the wallet, a slim, with room for cash and cards, but not much else. It also blocks radio-frequency identification devices from scanning personal information.
Digital wallets
NEW ORLEANS — Cash, coins and credit cards are so Twentieth Century. At least, that’s the opinion of the electronics manufacturers, phone companies, banks and credit card issuers that expect cel...
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Tech Q&A
Question: My son lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand, so a video connection between us is important. When we use Skype video, it disconnects after a few minutes and never resumes. Both of our Inte...
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US wireless phone subscribers hang up on contracts
NEW ORLEANS — U.S. consumers have had their fill of expensive, contract-based phone plans. Figures from T-Mobile USA on Thursday, added to earlier reports from other companies, indicate that the...
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iPad status limits apps development
QUESTION: When are companies going to start writing applications for tablet computers other than the iPad? I own a Pandigital tablet, and when I try to download apps, I’m told they’re either for th...
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Associated Press After being told a word, an orangutan points to that object on an iPad at Jungle Island in Miami.
Orangutans at zoo use iPads to communicate
MIAMI — The 8-year-old twins love their iPad. They draw, play games and expand their vocabulary. Their family’s teenagers also like the hand-held computer tablets, too, but the clan’s elders show n...
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Bing to duel Google with Facebook-friendly format
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft’s Bing search engine is heading in a new direction as it drills deeper into Facebook’s social network and Twitter’s messaging service to showcase information unlikely to b...
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