BlackBerry's new operating system faces its first big test in the U.S. Friday when the first phone based on BlackBerry 10 goes on sale. The U.S. launch comes more than a month after the phone, called the Z10, went on sale in the U.K. Jan. ...
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Apple yesterday gave its strongest signal yet that it will continue to support OS X Snow Leopard with patches for the foreseeable future rather than retire the still-active operating system. On Thursday, Apple shipped Security Update ...
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Cheongsam, a close-fitting woman’s dress with high neck and slit skirt originated from the Manchu nationality in , is one of the most typical, traditional costumes for Chinese women. Speaking of tradition, some people always think of ...
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When is the last time you thought about office supplies? Unless you’re the office manager, or someone who works for an office supply chain, we’re guessing you’d have a hard time pinpointing it. After all, in this era of ...
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The scene is set; a violin string crescendo plays to a vision of unsettling psychological tension; the protagonist looks at his mirrored reflection with a haunted gaze. Something is not quite right, and yet before we have time to reconsider ...
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The International Energy Agency remains largely in the dark over the real pace of China's surging oil demand despite long-running attempts to persuade the county to publish official data on consumption and oil stocks, the IEA's top energy ...
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You'll pay about $32 a gallon for the top-rated satin, flat, or semi-gloss paints from Consumer Reports' latest tests. Benjamin Moore interior paints also performed very well, but cost twice as much. You can spend less but too often the ...
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PicSlinger, an addictive new iPhone application, combines pictures with a word game for friends to play together. Players give it their best shot by choosing a word from three choices and snapping a photo to represent that word. Player A ...
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Microsoft this week patched 14 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (IE), preparing the browser for its time as a target early next month at the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest. On Tuesday, Microsoft patched 57 vulnerabilities, including ...
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Microsoft this week launched the first two of its new pay-as-you-go subscription plans for Office. The company's rarely-shy CEO Steve Ballmer called the sales approach "an entirely new way to think about the productivity experience," and ...
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It’s a fact of office life: Even the best-constructed, most durable office furniture will eventually break down and fall into disrepair. The question for office managers is when to try to fix what’s broken, and when to call it ...
With manufacturers touting double-oven ranges for their flexibility, Consumer Reports has been testing more electric smoothtop and gas ranges with two ovens. Of the 21 models in our labs, five performed so well that we recommend them. But ...
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Ever buy a new TV and then get bummed a year later when your formerly state-of-the-art set seems about as fresh as an open container of month-old yogurt? Samsung feels your pain. It hopes to take some of the sting out of obsolescence ...
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Predictive analytics helps firms to get "about three per cent better at guessing" what a consumer would like to buy, according to the founder and chief of Applied Predictive Technologies (APT), Jim Manzi. "Realistically, what predictive ...
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On June 28,Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins announced the company's latest financials in a particularly grim earnings call.Heins reported a first-quarter loss of$518 million,or 99 cents a share.Overall sales for the period were$2.8 ...
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