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Tech fair broadens and brightens seniors world
The 72-year-old Chula Vista resident will soon be able to see her grandchildren in Ohio on a daily basis. She'll be able to comparison shop without leaving her home. And, she will reconnect with old friends all over the country. All these life improvements are thanks to what she learned at Saturday's Technology Fair for the over-50 ...
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Microsoft opens full-line store at Dadeland
Microsoft store manager, Gonzalo Di Paolo, shows off a Surface tablet and colorful keyboard inside the brand new Microsoft retail store that will be opening at the Dadeland Mall on Saturday, May 18, ...
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Yahoo board to meet on $1.1B offer for Tumblr
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is rumored to be planning a Monday announcement, possibly of Yahoo's purchase of Tumblr for a reported $1.1 ...
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Graff Shows New Luxury Watches Outside Baselworld 2013
Baselworld 2013 . However, company representatives were in the city of Basel, where the world's largest Swiss watch tradeshow is held, to display its new collection of luxury timepieces to the press at a nearby hotel. It is fairly common for companies to hold viewings of their products outside of the tradeshow grounds. There are a variety of reasons why a company would do this. In ...
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New MacBook Air imminent
MacConnection , stock has vanished for the popular 13.3-inch Air with a 1.8GHz processor and 256GB solid-state drive. That said, Best Buy has stock, but it's the "only reseller on ...
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Teen dies trying to hold onto iPad during theft police say
A 15-year-old in Las Vegas dies after the passenger in a car allegedly tries to steal his iPad as he walks down the street. Police say the teen wouldn't let go of his iPad and was run ...
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Last-minute fortune seekers buy Powerball tickets
After weeks of rolling without a winner, the Powerball jackpot has once again ballooned in time for its Wednesday drawing, an estimated $360 million jackpot considered the third largest Powerball jackpot and the seventh largest jackpot in ...
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Apples Tim Cook To Propose Profit Repatriation Tax Changes
's CEO, Tim Cook, is expected to propose changes on the rules about how and when US corporations are taxed when they bring foreign profits back into America. It does have to be said that this sounds like a fairly sensible thing to do: there's some $1.7 trillion of such profits parked offshore at the moment. The basic background is that a US corporation only pays US corporate income ...
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Russias Internet Use Is Exploding
fascinating poll on Russians' use of computers. While I knew that Russians were increasingly likely to use the internet, a phenomenon which largely explains the popularity of a tech-savvy person like Alexey Navalny, even I was shocked by the sheer scale of change and the rapidity with which internet use has become the norm. More than half of all Russians now use the internet at least once ...
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Innovating to Boost Restaurant Sales
Taco Bell's taco with a Doritos shell makes you stop in your culinary tracks, well, that's the point. Hoping to increase sales and traffic in their restaurants, fast-food and fast-casual operators are cranking up the menu innovation machine to produce items that stray from the gastronomic norm, ...
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New Bill to Colleges Prove Your Worth
What's a college education really worth to you? While that question may be difficult to answer, a new bill is attempting to give families a bit more clarity about what they might expect to gain from a given college or university. ...
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Bernanke Tells Grads Innovation Is Key
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks to guests at a banking conference hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on May 10, 2013 in Chicago, ...
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Yum or Yuck Cutting-Edge Menu Items
, well, that's the point. Hoping to increase sales and traffic in their restaurants, fast-food and fast-casual operators are cranking up the menu innovation to produce items that stray from the gastronomic norm. "The pace of innovation has increased dramatically over the past five years," said Darren Tristano, an executive vice president at Technomic, a market research firm. ...
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Rome protest turns up heat on new leader Enrico Letta
ROME--Thousands of people protested in Rome on Saturday against austerity policies and high unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to focus on creating jobs to help pull the country out of ...
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Google Glass and the mens room urinals
commentary What mind-blowing breakthrough will result from the advent of Google's high-tech specs? Maybe redesigned men's rooms? CNET's Danny Sullivan considers the topic, and shares his stream of ...
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Fugitive to police on Facebook Catch me if you can. They do
Taunting the police on Facebook has limited benefits -- as one wanted man in the U.K. discovers when it takes police just 12 hours to catch up with him. They leave him a taunting message on Facebook in ...
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Will Americans New Boarding Process Work It Failed at Virgin America.
Give American Airlines credit for trying a new method to board passengers more quickly. Airlines constantly tinker with the boarding process, and this time American says it has found a way to cut an average of two minutes from the 40 minutes to 45 minutes that it takes to board a narrowbody aircraft. American narrow bodies take off about 3,000 times a day, so two minutes per flight is a lot of ...
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Tumblr And Yahoo Latest Details On The Imminent Deal
Soon-to-be quarter-billionaire David Karp. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) By the end of this weekend, Tumblr founder David Karp will most likely be $250 million richer ...
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Microsoft wants you to get to know Windows 8
Speaking to the New York Times a couple of weeks ago, Tami Reller, Windows division CFO, admitted that the Windows 8 "learning curve is real" and said that Microsoft will be addressing the issue ...
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CEO General Motors will soon rejoin SP 500
He spoke to business graduates at Notre Dame General Motors is still in the "early innings" of its recovery, but it won't be long before it rejoins the S&P 500 largest companies and gets its bond rating back to investment grade, GM CEO Dan Akerson said Saturday.Speaking at the commencement for business graduates at Notre Dame, Akerson noted GM's 13 consecutive profitable ...
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Republicans try to link IRS scandal health reform
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Republicans attempted to connect the Internal Revenue Service scandal to the Obama administration's controversial health-care-reform law in a Saturday response to the president's weekly radio-Internet ...
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Previously on Arrested Development NPRs epic guide to the shows running gags
(Credit: Screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET) Watch out for that stair carand any of the other numerous running jokes from resurrected cult hit ...
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How to really really make your naked Snapchat photos disappear
App maker KS Mobile insists that its Clean Master can help all those who are concerned that their spontaneous naked Snapchat snaps might linger in some technological depths. At least it can help users on ...
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More Good News For Google Fiber VOD Soars As Traditional Broadcast Collapses
traditional broadcast television collapses . While the impact is evident in the first regions Google Fiber touches directly, the reverberations may influence the entire industries of broadcast and business even more rapidly than analysts had previously thought. As early reviews of Google Fiber emerge from Kansas City, one of the most notable outcomes is the way gigabit speed makes services ...
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Growing your Business Evaluate the Risks First
Sometimes business growth happens naturally. Other times, you have to take a big risk to make it happen. But how do you know if your risk will pay off? We took a risk recently--after working from home for 10 years, my husband and I just opened a brick-and-mortar shop in an office building. I know--most book stores are closing their doors instead of opening new locations. But we decided to buck ...
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