HP: TouchPad rebate, with a catch
The company is offering the rebate through July 31 on the purchase of its 32GB TouchPad. However, the company rebate is only available to those who own one of its smartphones.
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Upcoming Hearing For Accused Murderer Open To Public
A Flathead County Judge will allow the public and the press to sit in on an upcoming hearing for accused double-murderer Tyler Miller.
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Office 365 By the Numbers: Is It a Good Value?
Now that Office 365 is here, businesses need to take a look at the math and see if it makes sense to embrace the new service and let Microsoft handle the dirty work on the back end.
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Numerex Teams With Its M2M Customers To Win Gold Value Chain Awards
Numerex Corp (Nasdaq: NMRX), a leading single source provider of secure machine-to-machine (M2M) products and services, announced it is a member of two gold Value Chain Award winning teams recognized during the recent Connected World Conference sponsored by Connected World magazine, which is the magazine for upwardly mobile individuals interested in connectivity trends and the mobile lifestyle.
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Gov’t: Drop-side cribs are now banned, including used ones
Ushering in one of the most significant changes in child safety in decades, the rule taking effect this week bans the manufacture, sale and resale of drop-side cribs.
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Android Phones More Prone To Hardware Problems
adeelarshad82 writes “A nearly year-long study conducted by WDS on 600,000 support calls has found that Android phones are more susceptible to hardware faults than other types of devices. ’14 percent of all technical support calls for Android devices could be traced to a hardware fault, versus 3.7 percent for RIM BlackBerry, 8 percent for iPhones and 9 percent for Windows Phone 7 devices.’ WDS …
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‘Nexus Prime’ could be Google’s next big Android phone
The rumors keep rolling in that Google’s next flagship Android phone, which may be called the Google Nexus Prime, is set to launch this fall and could face-off against Apple iPhone 5 and Microsoft’s Windows Phone Mango.
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Sony faces shareholders after cyberattack
Sony Corp. Chief Executive Howard Stringer credited “very loyal” PlayStation Network gamers for flocking back to the service in big numbers, as he sought Thursday to reassure shareholders following a series of embarrassing hacker attacks.
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The FCC Should Put a Stop to the ATT Merger With T Mobile
The duopoly that will result is bad for Americans from coast to coast and border to border. As the guardian of our nation’s airwaves, it is the intended role of the Federal Communications Commission to regulate interstate and international use of our nation’s broadcast and telecommunications resources. Increasingly that is becoming
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MacBook Air Refresh: Speculation Increases as Inventories Dwindle
A pattern of MacBook Air laptops dropping in availability at retail stores just before new models debut has been identified, suggesting new models could be released soon
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Plasma v LCD – which should you buy?
Where your set is located can dictate which television is best for you.
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Azeris show off military in warning to Armenia
Azerbaijan paraded thousands of soldiers and hundreds of military vehicles through its capital yesterday in a show of force two days after talks failed to resolve a bitter territorial dispute with Armenia.
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Farewell to a jewel of Manayunk
The armed bandit bound Victor Ostroff’s hands and feet with plastic zip ties, did the same to Ostroff’s assistant, and ordered the pair to lie on their stomachs in the back room. He took the videotape from the security camera, crippling the screen showing the sales floor.
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US: Ready to arm Philippines amid South China Sea tensions
The United States said Thursday it was ready to provide hardware to modernize the military of the Philippines, which vowed to “stand up to aggressive action” amid rising tension at sea with China.
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AP EXCLUSIVE: Power grid change may disrupt clocks
Copyright 2011 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. WASHINGTON (AP) – Our power supply has been so precise that we’ve set our clocks by it. But time may be running out on that idea.
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New Law Starts July 1, Many Not Ready
Homeowners are aware about having smoke detectors in their house, but on July 1, 2011 a new law requiring carbon monoxide (CO) detectors will go into affect.
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Come cliche with me
The fallback on cliches is one of the articulate world’s flaws. Never mind the desire we may have to master the grandeur and majesty of a language, most of us speak in clichés.
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Shoe Update: Lucy Punch, Rutina Wesley, and Janina Gavankar
Lucy Punch at the premiere of “Bad Teacher” in New York City on June 20, 2011, and Rutina Wesley and Janina Gavankar at the premiere of HBO’s “True Blood” Season 4 in Los Angeles on June 21, 2011.Photo: Getty Images Guys. Let’s give it up for shoes. Not just these shoes, though. I’m talking every. shoe. [...]
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You Can Now Turn Your Own Computer Into A Pogoplug
Pogoplug is today releasing new software that basically turns any PC or Mac into a Pogoplug device , no additional hardware required. The software could be useful to stream pictures, music or movies to another computer or a mobile device (Android, iPhone, iPad, etc.), and since multiple devices can be linked to a single account, you can access files from any of them individually or see all the …
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11-under Reds win pair of tournaments
c-REDS 1.jpg sweetwatersports@yahoo.com A local 11-and-under select baseball team, the Sweetwater Reds, is shown with its hardware after taking first place at tournaments earlier this month. The team is shown with the trophy that it won in Abilene. Also, the players also won a USSSA state tournament held in Midland, where the boys received rings as well as a plaque …
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Hometownstations.com-WLIO- Lima, OH News Weather SportsAP EXCLUSIVE: Power grid change may disrupt clocks
WASHINGTON (AP) – Our power supply has been so precise that we’ve set our clocks by it. But time may be running out on that idea. A yearlong experiment with the electric grid may make plug-in clocks and devices like coffeemakers with programmable timers run up to 20 minutes fast.
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Tech giants set to battle over Nortel’s remains
Google bidding 0 million for 6,000 Nortel patents in a liquidation sale that starts Monday.
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Madison County Office of Arise offering workshop June 24
ONEIDA — The Madison County Office of Arise Inc. is offering a free informational workshop Friday, June 24 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Madison County Employment and Training site, 1006 Oneida Plaza Drive next to Sears Hardware/Wal-Mart in Oneida, to discuss people’s rights and responsibilities when they seek to return to work. Arise’s Oneida office seeks to encourage folks with disabilities to …
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Altera and RV-VLSI to set up product innovation lab
Bangalore, Jun 24 : The US-based Altera Corporation, a pioneer in programmable logic solutions and city-based RV-VLSI, a premier research and training center and a unit of the Rashtriya Shikshana Samithi Trust (RSST), have forged a partnership to set up an Innovation Lab.
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Rumor: Amazon Gunning for a Tablet Release This Fall
It looks like we could be getting an Amazon-branded tablet sooner rather than later, based on the latest reports on the retail giant’s plans. According to DigiTimes , Amazon will launch its tablet PC models by August or September of this year.
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Boxing packs sales punch
Amy “The Dee-Stroyer” Dee doesn’t hear much boxing talk at the Tufts University Women’s Center, where she works…
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Marketing a Brand New Product
What the Snuggie, the Roomba, and other innovative products can teach you about turning an unknown name and product into a consumer success When TV commercials for the Snuggie launched in October of 2008, they were difficult to take seriously. For anyone with an extra sweatshirt in their closet, a lounging woman’s debate between keeping her arms warm and completing simple tasks like answering …
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Apple updates Time Capsules, adds 3TB version
It’s been a while since Apple last updated its line of Time Capsule storage devices, so we’re excited to hear that the handy dandy gadget is finally getting a bit of attention again. Unfortunately that attention doesn’t translate into major overhauls.
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Walla Walla riesling tops state contest
A Walla Walla winery won best in show for a riesling at the 30th annual Washington State Wine Compet
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For Solar Energy Project: DOE picks Medellin island as pilot area
The Department of Energy (DOE) has granted P300,000 to the Cebu Electric Cooperative (Cebeco) II to energize Gibitngil Island in the municipality of Medellin with the use of solar panels.
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