Web-based e-mail features come to desktop software

Technology / Internet

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(AP) -- E-mail has taken a full circle. Over the years, Web-based e-mail services have gotten much better, sporting many features once available only with the e-mail programs that reside on the computer desktop.


Droid smart phone

New handbook for Google, Droid users

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Before buying one of the new Google-powered "Droid" phones from Verizon Wireless, you may want to read the manual. Not the setup directions in the box.


Palm Pre

Palm's webOS hasn't gotten the attention it deserves

Technology / Software

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Lost in the recent deluge of smart-phone news -- Apple's iPhone store hitting 100,000 applications, and the launches of the new Droid phone and the BlackBerry Storm, among other things -- have been the efforts ...


Is neighbor's Wi-Fi signal free for me to use?

Technology / Telecom

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Q. The other day, my Internet service went down as it does from time to time. But this particular time, I needed to check my e-mail for an important reply I was expecting. After some frustrating time passed, I happened to ...


Software for solving life-threatening medical puzzles

Software for solving life-threatening medical puzzles

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(PhysOrg.com) -- New software is under development that doctors hope will help them identify brain tumours in children that will grow aggressively.


Google Go

Google Go gets going (w/ Video)

Technology / Software

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Google has introduced its new experimental programming language Go, which aims to combine speedy application development through simplified coding with high-speed program execution.


Syringes with influenza virus vaccine sitting on a tray

Google launches online flu shot finder

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Google on Tuesday launched an online tool for tracking down where to get vaccinations against H1N1 and seasonal influenza in the United States.


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New York Times publishes 'crowd-funded' article

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The science section of The New York Times contained an unusual article on Tuesday. The story about a huge floating garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean was not written by a Times reporter but by a freelance ...


Adobe Systems announced on Tuesday it was cutting some 680 jobs worldwide

Adobe cutting 680 jobs

Technology / Business

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Adobe Systems, known for its Photoshop editing program and Acrobat document software, announced on Tuesday it was cutting some 680 jobs worldwide, about nine percent of its workforce.


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Amazon delivers Kindle books to PCs

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Amazon.com on Tuesday released free software that lets people read the online retail titan's electronic Kindle books on personal computers.


Inventing language

Inventing language

Technology / Engineering

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Last Thursday, the day after the New York Yankees won their first World Series of the 21st century, MIT Institute Professor Barbara Liskov, the 2008 recipient of the Turing Award — frequently ...


LinkedIn was launched in 2003 as an online community for people to advance career and job prospects

Twitter links to LinkedIn

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Twitter on Tuesday linked to LinkedIn, letting people share updates and tweets between the hot microblogging service and the career-oriented online social networking website.


Windows 7

Microsoft's monthly security fixes spare Windows 7

Technology / Software

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(AP) -- Microsoft's newest computer operating system has survived its first few weeks on the market without needing any security fixes.



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