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Colleges struggle with students’ data demand
ST. LOUIS — University of Missouri-Columbia students arrived on campus this fall with a slew of new electronic toys and immediately wrought havoc with the school’s wireless network. Early on, to...
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Sensitivity of mouse causes erratic cursor
Q: My cursor bounces all over my screen. Suddenly I’m typing somewhere on a previous line. Any suggestions? A: The most common reason for mouse (and thus cursor) misbehavior is that the sensitiv...
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Nextel to shut down NEW YORK — Sprint Nextel Corp. will start shutting down the Nextel part of its network in little more than a year. So what are the folks who use Nextel’s walkie-talkie-like ...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service At the Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton, Capt. Jim Carlson sits in his Super Cobra attack helicopter with an iPad computer on Sept. 1. Carlson came up with the idea of using an iPad to store and access the volumes of maps he uses during combat flight operations.
Military put smart devices to the test
LOS ANGELES — As a Cobra attack helicopter pilot, Marine Capt. Jim “Hottie” Carlson was running support missions above Afghanistan last summer when it occurred to him that it was taking far too lon...
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Browser to blame when games fail
Q: I like to play games at Pogo.com on my new desktop PC. But a month ago, a few of the games started to freeze up and I continually got Java-related errors. I followed the instructions to make ...
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Adobe announces new Flash player NEW YORK — Adobe Systems Inc. says the latest iteration of its ubiquitous Flash player will focus on showing high-quality online videos and letting developers cr...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Vinci is a new category of early learning systems exclusively designed for children ages 4 and under.
Experts and parents unsure of new touch-screen tablet
A computer for babies may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but a Canadian company has just made it reality. Last month Rullingnet Corp. launched Vinci, a 7-inch touch-screen tablet that sel...
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Aiming for the right note
MINNEAPOLIS — After Dan Massoth played his trumpet along with a recording of the U.S. Marine Band, the musical notes on his computer screen turned green or red to show whether they were played corr...
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How to consolidate music efficiently
Q: The music files on my Windows 7 PC are stored in three different folders, and this makes it difficult to find a file to include as an attachment in an e-mail. One file has 222 songs, one has fiv...
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Associated Press Stephen Botelho kneels beside the pellet burning stove in the basement of his California home. Botelho installed the stove as an energy saving measure.
Homes demanding less power
by JONATHAN FAHEY Associated Press NEW YORK — American homes are more cluttered than ever with devices, and they all need power: Cellphones and iPads that have to be charged, DVRs that run al...
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