About two years ago, I wrote a column on Apple’s new digital goddess Siri, the company’s digital assistant and go-to person for iPhone users. Folks could ask Siri a range of questions including street directions, the location of ...
Tags: Apple, revamp, Siri, agriculture
Produced Water Absorbents, Inc. and its subsidiaries (PWA) have completed a $9.2 million acquisition of the operating assets of oil and gas technology company ProSep Inc. and are launching a combined portfolio of patented solutions to treat ...
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Three prominent U.S. senators have in a federal court filing questioned the claim of the National Security Agency that its bulk collection of phone records is required for intelligence purposes. The brief argues that after extensive ...
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SAP has been slapped with a lawsuit by California’s state controller over a payroll software implementation that cost taxpayers vast sums, but has never worked correctly. The suit, filed Thursday in Sacramento County District ...
A jury has ordered Samsung to pay US$290 million to Apple for infringement of several of its patents in multiple Samsung smartphones and tablets. The verdict, reached on the third day of deliberation by the eight-person jury, is less ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, Patent Battle
Harold Hamm, sharecropper to oil and fracking tycoon Towing icebergs to ease water scarcity is yesterday; transporting water in supertankers is today.What if ready-to-drink filtered water, 500,000 tons at a time, could be consistently ...
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Bitzio, Inc. is pleased to announce the evolution of its corporate strategy culminating in the following corporate transactions: -Entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with E-Motion Apparel -Appointed Gordon McDougall as CEO ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories
California has revised its controversial Technical Bulletin 117 and adopted a new flammability standard that should allow producers to make furniture and baby products that do not contain flame retardant chemicals beginning Jan. 1. ...
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During this year’s BIOMEDevice exposition in San Jose, California, Secant Medical will be exhibiting its biomedical textiles engineering and novel biomaterial capabilities. The technical staff will be available at booth #633, December ...
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Back when Yahoo was something hollered at a rodeo and no one could conceive of Googling anything, President Ronald Reagan signed an executive order that extended the power of U.S. intelligence agencies overseas, ...
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Google is paying $17 million to 37 states and the District of Columbia to make amends for the Internet search leader's snooping on millions of people using Safari Web browsers in 2011 and 2012. The settlement announced Monday stems from a ...
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Should newspapers get into the online learning business? Digital strategist Amy Webb floated the prospect at October's Online News Association conference as one of the top 10 tech trends for 2014 for media companies. As massive open ...
Six months ago, California "raw milk man" James Stewart was sitting in a jail cell in Los Angeles county, shivering from hypothermia, his body wrapped in chains from hands to ankles. He had been raided at gunpoint by the LA County Sheriff's ...
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A new study out of California has identified some practical steps that men can take to avoid developing prostate cancer, and all of them involve making simple dietary changes. Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco ...
There may be a safe, reliable and natural way to treat moderate and severe cases of acne: Supplementation with omega-3-rich fish oil. Acne occurs when a substance known as sebum builds up and combines with dead skin cells. This clogs the ...
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