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QUESTION: I downloaded a free book from iTunes just for fun, but I can’t seem to open it on my computer. Is there a way to read it on my PC? —Laurie Hauge, Minneapolis ANSWER: Apple designe...
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Associated Press Residents paddle past a stranded school bus Wednesday in Live Oak Fla. Dozens of homes and businesses were flooded by torrential rains from Tropical Storm Debby. The National Weather Service will be sending out alerts about life-threatening weather to smartphones via the Wireless Emergency Alerts system. Users do not have to sign up for the service and won't be charged for the message.
Under the weather
MINNEAPOLIS — Attorney Bob Burns already gets a lot of information from his smartphone, but he welcomes the prospect of getting a little more — free warnings about life-threatening weather from a s...
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Moving email from PC to Mac
QUESTION: I’m switching computers from a Windows Vista PC to a Macintosh, and I need to move my emails from Microsoft Windows Mail to the Mac. I want to use a flash drive to transfer the emails, bu...
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Associated Press Passers-by are reflected in the window of the Nasdaq media center in May as they view reports of trading activity on Facebook's stock on the Nasdaq stock market in New York.
The pop that wasn’t
NEW YORK — It’s been a month since Facebook’s IPO fell flat and in that time, the market for initial public offerings has collapsed. No company has gone public since May 18, compared with 19 in ...
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Yelp serves online restaurant reviews to Microsoft’s Bing
SAN FRANCISCO — Yelp is feeding its online reviews of restaurants and other local merchants to Microsoft’s Bing search engine in a move to compete against Zagat ratings on Google. Beginning Thur...
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Associated Press A domain name poster is displayed June 8 at the offices of Artemis Internet, an NCC Group Company in San Francisco. Some 2,000 proposals have been submitted as part of the largest expansion of the Internet address system since its creation in the 1980s.
Businesses dominate bids for Internet suffixes
NEW YORK — Amazon.com wants “.joy,” Google wants “.love” and L’Oreal wants “.beauty.” Big brands are behind hundreds of proposals for new Internet addresses, including scores for generic terms s...
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Associated Press A scene from "Civilization V: Gods & Kings" is shown. Creator Sid Meier's sweeping turn-based strategy games give players the ability to build and control empires spanning several fictional centuries. While the world depicted in "Civ II" stops evolving in 2020, players can keep going into the future, as a user named Lycerius who posted the details of his ongoing 10-year-long game on the social news site Reddit has done.
‘Civ’ creator surprised gamer played for a decade
LOS ANGELES — The grim future predicted in a video game that’s been played for 10 years has surprised even the game’s original creator. “Civilization” mastermind Sid Meier says that he never fat...
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Associated Press A tourist uses his iPhone to photograph Federal Hall in New York's Financial District. Leap Wireless International Inc., the parent of the Cricket cellphone service, said on Thursday it will be the first mainland U.S. phone company to sell the iPhone on a prepaid, no-contract basis.
Cricket gets first prepaid iPhone in mainland US
NEW YORK — Leap Wireless International Inc., the parent of the Cricket cellphone service, on Thursday said it will be the first mainland U.S. phone company to sell the iPhone on a prepaid, no-contr...
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Windows 8’s final test version released
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft is nearly done with a much-anticipated overhaul of its Windows operating system. The software maker signaled the makeover is nearly complete with Thursday’s release of...
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Associated Press Jacqueline Siy-Ronquillo displays Quantum dots in solution, which under uv-light emit different wave lengths of light. The man-made Quantum dots only seen through high-powered microscopes are semiconductor nanocrystals that can emit a wider range of light with less energy than existing materials, so they could be used in future upgrades of solar panels, televisions, cellphones and related products to save energy and extend battery power.
Startup could go big with tiny dots
SALT LAKE CITY — “It wasn’t planned.” In 2005, Jacqueline Siy-Ronquillo began researching quantum dots — manmade semiconductor nanocrystals that emit light — for her doctorate in chemistry at th...
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