Category Archives: Computer

GM creates digital windows on the world

By doris | Published: January 22, 2012

Full Story at BottomLine.msnbc.msn.com Game Boys and backseat monitors are “so five years ago,” suggests Tom Seder, a manager at the General Motors R&D labs. Working with the Future Lab, at Israel’s Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, GM researchers are exploring ways to turn a car’s rear windows into interactive devices that could permit [...]

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Samsung Group plans record $41 billion investment in 2012

By doris | Published: January 17, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Group, which includes Samsung Electronics Co, said on Tuesday it is raising its 2012 investment to a record $41.4 billion, underscoring the widening gulf between the dominant South Korean conglomerate and its faltering competitors. Best known for making massive investments in new technologies ahead of rivals, Samsung [...]

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IBM CEO Sam Palmisano to step down

By doris | Published: October 25, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Sam Palmisano will step down as IBM’s CEO at the end of the year and will be replaced by longtime company executive Ginni Rometty. Palmisano’s tenure was an extremely successful one: After taking the tech giant’s reins from Lou Gerstner in 2002, Palmisano transformed the company from [...]

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Sales of Steve Jobs’ trademark black turtleneck soar

By doris | Published: October 8, 2011

Full Story at BottomLine.msnbc.msn.com In perhaps tribute to the technology visionary, sales of Steve Jobs’ trademark black turtleneck have soared since news broke that the former Apple CEO died, according to a report in the Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal. St. Croix Collections has seen sales of the iconic black mock turtleneck, which Jobs [...]

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Bill Clinton: How to fix the economy

By doris | Published: October 7, 2011

Full Story atFortune’s cnn.com First, Congress and President Obama can adopt strategies designed to unleash the massive amount of capital that is accumulated but not being invested. There’s some $2.2 trillion in cash in American banks that is not committed to loans. A couple hundred billion has to be held back for bad mortgages, but [...]

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The electronic nails in the post office’s coffin

By doris | Published: September 12, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com As if the U.S. Postal Service weren’t already in enough financial trouble, a growing number of startups are about to make its future even more uncertain. They’re trying to lure one of its main revenue sources — the nearly 48 billion bills, statements, account notices and offers that companies send to [...]

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HP kills TouchPad, looks to exit PC business

By doris | Published: August 18, 2011

Full Story atmoney.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Hewlett-Packard is taking a hatchet to its business and doing some radical restructuring. The company said Thursday that it is looking to spin off its industry-leading but struggling personal computer business. HP also killed off the TouchPad tablet it launched last month, as well as its webOS smartphone [...]

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How Angry Birds plans to get to 1 billion fans

By doris | Published: July 21, 2011

Full Story at Tech.fortune.cnn.com FORTUNE — Here’s a fun stat: The 300 million players who have downloaded Rovio’s Angry Birds games have flung more than 100 billion avians — more birds than actually exist in the entire world. “Our goal is to be the first brand with a billion fans,” Peter “Mighty Eagle” Vesterbacka, Rovio’s [...]

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Google gets green light to buy airline fare tracker

By doris | Published: April 10, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Google Inc. won government clearance with restrictions Friday for its $700 million purchase of airline fare tracker ITA Software in a deal that will give the Internet search giant a key role in online travel. Google promises to give consumers more choices and better ways to search for plane [...]

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Alaska Airlines cancels flights after outage

By doris | Published: March 26, 2011

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com DALLAS – Alaska Airlines and its Horizon Air affiliate canceled 95 flights Saturday because a computer system used for flight planning failed. The outage lasted intermittently for about seven hours and resulted in the two airlines scrapping about 12 percent of their combined schedule before technicians fixed the system, which returned at [...]

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IPad cuts ‘dramatically’ into laptop PC sales

By doris | Published: March 3, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Tablets aren’t killing personal computers yet, but they’re making consumers think twice before buying a laptop. Tech consultancy Gartner on Thursday lowered its PC shipment forecast for 2011 and 2012. The company said soaring tablet sales will result in far fewer notebook and netbook sales over the [...]

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Trade in your old junk for cash

By doris | Published: February 25, 2011

Full Story atmoney.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — You could be sitting on a pile of cash. The old sofa in your living room, the pile of sports equipment in the garage, the outgrown baby gear, the used electronics are all worth cash — lots of it.The average household has more than $7,000 worth of unused [...]

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MySpace slashes its staff in half

By doris | Published: January 11, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — MySpace said Tuesday that it is laying off 500 employees, cutting its staff by 47%. “Today’s tough but necessary changes were taken in order to provide the company with a clear path for sustained growth and profitability,” CEO Mike Jones said in a written statement. “These changes [...]

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FCC to vote Tuesday on ‘net neutrality’ rules

By doris | Published: December 21, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote Tuesday on a set of regulations designed to ensure that internet providers grant everyone equal access to the Web. The “net neutrality” rules, proposed by the Obama administration, would be the government’s biggest foray yet into one of the Web’s fiercest [...]

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