When Consumer Reports' mower testers heard about the speedy Raven MPV-710 lawn tractor with a built-in generator, they were excited to put it through its mowing paces. But it's been a bumpy ride for the $3,000 hybrid tractor. Shortly after ...
MICROSOFT is trying to fix what it got wrong with its radical makeover of Windows. It's making the operating system easier to navigate and enabling users to set up the software so it starts in a more familiar format designed for personal ...
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The BBC is to abandon a £98m digital production system and suspend its chief technology officer (CTO), John Linwood, after the organisation's chief executive Tony Hall said it had "wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers' money". ...
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Headphones are great for private listening, but sometimes you just want to kick out the jams with friends. That's where a portable Bluetooth wireless speaker can come in handy, since they're small enough to take along but hopefully powerful ...
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The dollar's dive looks far from over, even though it has already lost more than 8 per cent of its value against the US dollar since the middle of last month. Of course, a technical correction is possible. But increased disappointment ...
Tags: Aussie Dollar, Global Forces
A special edition, stock Android version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone will go on sale June 26 on the Google Play store for $649, Google announced Wednesday at the start of its annual Google I/O conference. The device will still run ...
Park Tool announced that it won’t be offering its Tech Summit training seminars for professional mechanics in 2014. The company plans to take a year to evaluate the program and return in 2015. The Tech Summit is a collaboration ...
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The oil complex settled lower Monday on bearish China data and increased OPEC production, amid weak fundamentals in the US. NYMEX June crude settled 87 cents lower at $95.17/barrel, having traded in a $94.47-$95.68/b range throughout the ...
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If you’re looking for the great look of hardwood floors without the installation challenges and limitations, then a floating hardwood floor may be exactly what you’ve been searching for. A floating floor is basically a hardwood ...
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The Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) has praised the Holden Malibu for achieving a five-star safety rating but has expressed disappointment at a four-star result for the family-oriented Fiat Freemont. Launching in Australia ...
Tags: Auto, Transportation
Performance, Ride & Handling 3.5 Comfort & Interior 3.5 Quality & Design 3 Value & Features 3.5 Green 3.5 The Nissan Pulsar ST is the base grade in the reborn small-car range, yet it is by far the most convincing model overall. ...
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Fans of so-called social games devote hours of time—and often, real-life money—to building their personal alternate lives. There's definitely some emotional investment for many players, too. What recourse do they have when the ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, webgame
With the media days at the New York International Auto Show behind us, the cars team has had time to reflect on the approximately 1,000 vehicles on display. Many new models made impressions, and some were utterly forgettable. To share our ...
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NYMEX May crude settled 16 cents lower at $97.07/b on Monday, as the complex came under pressure from a combination of weaker-than-expected US manufacturing data and the closure of ExxonMobil's 96,000 b/d Pegasus crude pipeline on Friday. ...
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Nearly fifteen years of sourcing in China opens up new worlds of business, experience and friendship for Julie Wing. I first went to China in 1999 to visit a jewellery factory. At the time, I had neither experience in jewellery nor ...
Tags: Focus Vision, Chinese Friends, Service