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Santa via cellphone: Shopping online without a computer
This holiday season, consumers are beginning to shop and make purchases on their mobile phones. The shift from buying presents in front of the computer at home or work to doing it during bus commutes or while standing in line...
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Bing: Still trying to keep up with Google
It may be impossible for Microsoft to catch up to Google in search. But it still keeps trying.On Wednesday Microsoft unveiled a series of upgrades to its Bing search engine and related products. None promised to be a Google killer....
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Skype adds video calling to iPhone App
If you happen to see people making strange faces at their iPhones in the next few days, blame Skype. The Internet telephone service introduced video chatting on Thursday for iPhone users who want to not just hear who they call, but...
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New task for phone: File taxes
Few chores are as unpleasant as doing taxes. But filers can avoid some of the drudgery by turning it over to their mobile phones. Intuit, the company that makes TurboTax software, introduced an application on Friday that lets users automatically...
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Betting on news, AOL is buying The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post, which began in 2005 with a meager $1 million investment and has grown into one of the most heavily visited news Web sites in the country, is being acquired by AOL in a deal that creates an...
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HP to spin off Personal Computers, exit Tablets
Hewlett-Packard said on Thursday that it was considering spinning off its personal computer (PC) business into a separate company and was in talks to acquire Autonomy, a business software maker.
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Blogs wane as the young drift to sites like Twitter
Like any aspiring filmmaker, Michael McDonald, a high school senior, used a blog to show off his videos. But discouraged by how few people bothered to visit, he instead started posting his clips on Facebook, where his friends were sure to see and comment on his editing skills. "I don't use my blog anymore," said Mr. McDonald, who lives in San Franc...
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Betting on news, AOL is buying The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post, which began in 2005 with a meager $1 million investment and has grown into one of the most heavily visited news Web sites in the country, is being acquired by AOL in a deal that creates an unlikely pairing of two online media giants. The two companies completed the sale Sunday evening and were expected to announce the de...
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Intel, finding a chip flaw, expects to lose $1 billion
Intel said on Monday it had stopped shipping a new chipset after discovering a design flaw that might cause 5 percent of the chips to fail over the next three to five years. The loss in revenue and the fixing of the nearly half a million laptop and desktop computers that contain the chipset are expected to cost Intel $1 billion. Intel said that the...
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Skype struggles to restore its service and reputation
Skype said that it has stabilized its service following a two-day outage and gave details about reimbursing users. Pay As You Go and Pre-Pay users will receive a credit voucher via e-mail that will give them approximately 30 minutes of free calling anywhere in the world, the company said. Meanwhile, subscribers will get a credit within the next few...
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Santa via cellphone: Shopping online without a computer
This holiday season, consumers are beginning to shop and make purchases on their mobile phones. The shift from buying presents in front of the computer at home or work to doing it during bus commutes or while standing in line at cafes is small, but, for the first time, noticeable and even significant.Shopping on cellphones and portable tablet compu...
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AOL to buy TechCrunch to bolster its news coverage
AOL said on Tuesday that it was buying the influential technology news blog TechCrunch to bolster its growing online editorial business. The deal, signed on stage at a TechCrunch conference here, will add to AOL's technology coverage, which also includes the gadget blog Engadget. The companies did not disclose terms, but the price tag was more than...
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Santa via cellphone: Shopping online without a computer
This holiday season, consumers are beginning to shop and make purchases on their mobile phones. The shift from buying presents in front of the computer at home or work to doing it during bus commutes or while standing in line...
-
Bing: Still trying to keep up with Google
It may be impossible for Microsoft to catch up to Google in search. But it still keeps trying.On Wednesday Microsoft unveiled a series of upgrades to its Bing search engine and related products. None promised to be a Google killer....
-
Skype adds video calling to iPhone App
If you happen to see people making strange faces at their iPhones in the next few days, blame Skype. The Internet telephone service introduced video chatting on Thursday for iPhone users who want to not just hear who they call, but...
-
New task for phone: File taxes
Few chores are as unpleasant as doing taxes. But filers can avoid some of the drudgery by turning it over to their mobile phones. Intuit, the company that makes TurboTax software, introduced an application on Friday that lets users automatically...
-
Betting on news, AOL is buying The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post, which began in 2005 with a meager $1 million investment and has grown into one of the most heavily visited news Web sites in the country, is being acquired by AOL in a deal that creates an...
-
HP to spin off Personal Computers, exit Tablets
Hewlett-Packard said on Thursday that it was considering spinning off its personal computer (PC) business into a separate company and was in talks to acquire Autonomy, a business software maker.
-
Blogs wane as the young drift to sites like Twitter
Like any aspiring filmmaker, Michael McDonald, a high school senior, used a blog to show off his videos. But discouraged by how few people bothered to visit, he instead started posting his clips on Facebook, where his friends were sure to see and comment on his editing skills. "I don't use my blog anymore," said Mr. McDonald, who lives in San Franc...
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Betting on news, AOL is buying The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post, which began in 2005 with a meager $1 million investment and has grown into one of the most heavily visited news Web sites in the country, is being acquired by AOL in a deal that creates an unlikely pairing of two online media giants. The two companies completed the sale Sunday evening and were expected to announce the de...
-
Intel, finding a chip flaw, expects to lose $1 billion
Intel said on Monday it had stopped shipping a new chipset after discovering a design flaw that might cause 5 percent of the chips to fail over the next three to five years. The loss in revenue and the fixing of the nearly half a million laptop and desktop computers that contain the chipset are expected to cost Intel $1 billion. Intel said that the...
-
Skype struggles to restore its service and reputation
Skype said that it has stabilized its service following a two-day outage and gave details about reimbursing users. Pay As You Go and Pre-Pay users will receive a credit voucher via e-mail that will give them approximately 30 minutes of free calling anywhere in the world, the company said. Meanwhile, subscribers will get a credit within the next few...
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Santa via cellphone: Shopping online without a computer
This holiday season, consumers are beginning to shop and make purchases on their mobile phones. The shift from buying presents in front of the computer at home or work to doing it during bus commutes or while standing in line at cafes is small, but, for the first time, noticeable and even significant.Shopping on cellphones and portable tablet compu...
-
AOL to buy TechCrunch to bolster its news coverage
AOL said on Tuesday that it was buying the influential technology news blog TechCrunch to bolster its growing online editorial business. The deal, signed on stage at a TechCrunch conference here, will add to AOL's technology coverage, which also includes the gadget blog Engadget. The companies did not disclose terms, but the price tag was more than...
