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Microsoft expands Windows Azure in Asia Pacific
Welcome to Microsoft Pri0: That's Microspeak for top priority, and that's the news and observations you'll find here from Seattle Times technology reporter Janet I. ...
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Luxury Cruises An Insiders Guide To Crystal Symphonys Cabin Prices
The Hotel Detective is loath to admit it, but he didn't have to do much Sherlock Holmesing to compile this cabin crib sheet for the Crystal ...
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BusinessAviationVoice Is Supersonic Business Travel In Your Future
Since the demise of Concorde, business travelers have been anticipating a new way to break the time barrier. Even in the most well appointed business jets, those long seven- to 10-hour flights to Europe and the Middle East take their toll on body and soul. Sure, you can work en route, sleep comfortably and be ready to go as soon as the wheels touch down, but wouldn't it be great if that ...
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The Cities Winning The Battle For Information Jobs
The information industry has long been a darling of the media -- no surprise since the media constitutes a major part of this economic sector, which includes publishing, software, entertainment and data processing. Yet until the last few years, it has been a sector in overall decline, with almost 850,000 jobs lost since 2001. The biggest losses have been in telecommunications (half a million ...
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Amazons Kindle Fire HD A Stealth BYOD Tablet Competitor
announced today that its Kindle Fire HD tablet offerings will rocket from availability in just seven markets (U.S., U.K., Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Japan) to 170+ countries in mid-June. The 7" and 8.9" Amazon Kindle Fire HD models have enjoyed great success in the consumer market, as ...
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What Hollywood Can Learn From The Fast Furious Franchise
Less CGI means more exciting stunts. Memorial Day weekend is traditionally one of the most important in Hollywood. The official start of summer (complete with an extra day off) is the perfect time for high-grossing blockbusters. Back in 2009, when the franchise started, no one would have ...
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The Conde Nast Startup Story Yahoo Should Study For Tumblr
's $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr on Monday has been the talk of Internet Week in New York, with many such as venture capitalist Eric Hippeau praising the purchase as a victory for the New York tech community. Now comes the hard part as founder David Karp integrates ...
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Yahoos Top 10 Biggest Acquisitions
Yahoo’s biggest acquisition to date took place in 1999 with its purchase of internet video streaming service Broadcast.com for $5.7 billion. Yahoo promised to ';integrate the company's audio and video programming, business services and advertising programs into Yahoo,'; then Yahoo president Jeff Mallett told CNET at the time. Looks like that plan fell through, as ...
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Bungie Teases Destiny With A New Trailer Starring Breaking Bads Giancarlo Esposito
. The latest glimpse of this new world is a combination of live-action and CGI intended to give gamers a sense of the universe they'll be stepping into when the game launches on Xbox 360, PS3, PS4, and Xbox One. Bungie and Activision are also promising some actual gameplay footage at E3, but for now the CG is pretty enough. While I've griped about live-action and CG trailers before, ...
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Far Above The World Chris Hadfields Awesome Bowie Cover From Space
I'm sure everyone's seen this and that, as usual, I'm the last person to pick up on a new cultural meme. (What's this 'Gangnam Style' thing anyway?). But if not, this video is totally awesome. At least for space cadets and Bowie fans like me. It's not too shabby a cover but he made it in space. IN SPACE. If I had $40m, I'd go to the International Space ...
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Microsoft to deliver new Kinect for Windows sensor next year
Welcome to Microsoft Pri0: That's Microspeak for top priority, and that's the news and observations you'll find here from Seattle Times technology reporter Janet I. ...
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Ashton Kutcher Media $ Twitter up
"For lack of a better verb, the media came and @&$#%! [expletive deleted] it up," Kutcher said at the CTIA wireless industry trade show in Las Vegas on Thursday. "When I first got on, it felt like the democratization of media. Now it just feels like ...
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Google surfaces your photos in search
(Credit: Google) Looking for a picture you took at your sister's bridal shower? Google's search engine will now help you find it -- so long as you've posted the shot to the company's companion social network. The company announced Thursday that Google+ members can log in to Google.com ...
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Could storm-chasing UAVs help predict tornadoes
tornado that rampaged through 17 miles of central Oklahoma, plans for storm-chasing UAVs are taking on new significance. Students at Oklahoma State University have been working on ...
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H7N9 flu virus may be able to spread among people
Working with ferrets, the model for human transmission, the study found the potentially dangerous virus was transmitted by direct contact, but not efficiently through the air. Analyzing the viral gene sequence showed that the virus might have undergone mutations making it more easily transmissible in ...
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Late property tax notices to go out
The county will start to mail out more than 42,000 notices to taxpayers who have failed to pay their property taxes, said the San Diego County treasurer-tax collector's office on Thursday. The amount in unpaid taxes and late fees totals $94.1 ...
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Top 50 highest-paid CEOs
A look at the 50 highest-paid CEOs of 2012, as calculated by executive pay research firm Equilar.1. Leslie Moonves, CBS, $60.3 million, down 12 percent2. David Zaslav, Discovery Communications, $49.9 million, down 5 percent 3. Bob Iger, Disney, $37.1 million, up 18 percent4. Philippe Dauman, Viacom, $33.4 million, down 22 percent5. John Donahoe, eBay, $29.7 million, up 81 percent6. Brian ...
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Pepper your wardrobe with Gatsby glitz for less
NEW YORK - Baz Luhrmann's big screen adaption of "The Great Gatsby" is shining a spotlight on Roaring Twenties glam fashions, from drop-waist dresses and head scarves to crisp bow ties and spectator shoes. But you don't need a wallet the size of Jay Gatsby's to get the look.There are plenty of choices if you want to dress head-to-toe or just spice up your wardrobe with a ...
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Snapple co-founder Leonard Marsh dies at 80
Leonard Marsh - the co-founder of the Snapple beverage brand - has died at age 80.Snapple was founded in New York as Unadulterated Food Products in 1972, selling natural fruit juices to health food stores. Marsh started the business with his brother-in-law Hyman Golden and his childhood friend Arnold Greenberg. The now well-known brand name didn't appear until 1980.Marsh was a window washer ...
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Fidelity 401 Balances Reach Record Highs
Photo credit: Wikipedia Have you checked your 401(k) balance lately? You might be in for a pleasant surprise. Average 401(k) balances reached record highs at the end of the first quarter, according ...
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You Suck Now Subscribe Why Bloombergs Shame-Based Millennial Ad Campaign Misses The Mark
Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife While shame-based conditioning might work when it comes to teaching your new rottweiler puppy not to go pee-pee on the hall rug, Bloomberg Businessweek is betting it will also help them recruit a new generation of subscribers. The business news titan ...
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CEOs are Terrible at Management Study Finds
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer: Is she listening to people inside her company? (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) A new study shows that CEOs are doing a lousy job when it comes to people management. The study, a joint project by the Center for Leadership Development and Research at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, Stanford's Rock Center for Corporate Governance and The Miles ...
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Samsung Galaxy S4 Changes The Game For Electronic Arts
With much of the gaming world still focused on Microsoft's Xbox One and Sony's PlayStation 4, there's a brand new gaming device that is out right now. You don't have to wait until this fall to experience the next generation of mobile gaming on the Samsung Galaxy S4. There's a large library of games from top publishers, including Electronic Arts. And many game developers, ...
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BusinessAviationVoice Superfluous Luxury Or Tool For Growth
Photo: Honeywell Aerospace As representatives of business aviation organizations from around the world gathered for a forum at the European Business Aviation Convention (EBACE), the primary discussion hinged around the misconception of business aircraft as an unnecessary luxury versus an essential tool for corporate growth. While statistical evidence unquestionably confirms that businesses of ...
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St. Louis Social Media-Driven Saga of Larry Conners and KMOV
affiliate KMOV-TV, let's recap. After the news broke about the IRS targeting Tea Party groups during the 2012 election, Conners, the longtime KMOV anchor, hopped on his ...
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