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submitted by MikeK 224 weeks 4 days 22 hours 4 minutes ago
PC World - Much of the attention for Apple has been on the iPhone lately, but the company's hardware business is showing strength too. Apple's hardware shipments for the third-quarter surged 15.9 percent over the same quarter last year, according to a report released Wednesday by...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Batboy's revenge! 90 weeks 1 day 22 hours 43 minutes ago
Want to know if the blouse you're trying on at Bloomingdale's can be snagged on the cheap at Ross? Curious whether that painting is a genuine Jackson Pollock or the inspired effort of a kindergartener? Wondering how much the restaurant gouged you on that bottle of...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Obama Watch 54 weeks 1 day 15 hours 50 minutes ago
Several polls note a rise in public approval for Obama. The bump comes after his Tucson shooting speech and a productive lame-duck congressional session.President Obama is enjoying a surge in public approval as he marks the midpoint of his first term, an uptick that follows a...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 1 hour 55 minutes ago
AP - A federal judge has set aside nearly seven hours for opening statements in a trial over the deadly rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that resulted in the nation's worst offshore oil spill.
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submitted by AB 207 weeks 6 days 19 hours 9 minutes ago
NewsFactor - The Microsft-Yahoo battle continued Monday with some unexpected twists. Microsoft indicated it will keep fighting even as Yahoo's board raised the price and reports suggested Yahoo is trying to restart merger talks with AOL.
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 7 hours 55 minutes ago
#watchthis A circus performance at the The Dow Event Center ended abruptly when a motorcycle jump went horribly wrong and the rider hit a wire at the apex of his jump. More »
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submitted by pbl 173 weeks 1 day 22 hours 53 minutes ago
European law-enforcement officials uncovered a highly sophisticated credit-card fraud ring that funnels account data to Pakistan from hundreds of grocery-store card machines across Europe, according to U.S. intelligence officials and other people familiar with the case.
Specialists say the theft technology is the most advanced they have...(more)
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submitted by JKM 224 weeks 14 hours 20 minutes ago
Apple just stated in their earnings call that out of 1.4 million iPhones sold since launch, 250,000 are unlocked. They know this from subtracting the number of iPhones activated on AT&T from the number of iPhones sold total—which is 250k. That's a farmhouse load of unlocked...(more)
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submitted by AB 159 weeks 5 days 16 hours 12 minutes ago
Saying his health-related issues were “more complex” than he originally thought, Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, announced Wednesday that he would take a medical leave of absence from the company until the end of June.
In a letter to Apple employees released after markets closed,...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 228 weeks 4 days 23 hours 39 minutes ago
Susan Mernit has a quick overview of the She's Geeky conference -- a brilliant idea and long overdue -- on her blog. Take a look!
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 13 hours 55 minutes ago
A new record for activity on Twitter during a sports event was set during the 2012 Super Bowl, with more than 10,000 messages sent per second, Twitter says.
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submitted by elvis 224 weeks 4 days 22 hours 26 minutes ago
Whoa, this is scary -- robotic military cannons malfunctioning... From the story: "Media reports say the shooting exercise, using live ammunition, took place at the SA Army's Combat Training Centre, at Lohatlha, in the Northern Cape, as part of an annual force preparation endeavour.
Mangope told The...(more)
