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Students power up with computers and Internet access
Sat, 19 May 2012 10:36:26 -0700
LITTLE ROCK, AR – Dozens of students and their families are surfing the web from home for the first time as the result of local efforts to help bridge the technology divide.
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Google’s Chrome Edges Past Microsoft Web Browser in Usage
Mon, 21 May 2012 11:52:00 -0700
Google's Chrome became the most-used Web browser last week, according to data from website analytics company StatCounter, marking a new milestone for the Internet giant in one of its many battlefronts with Microsoft.
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Martha Lane Fox's £159 computer bundles free broadband
Tue, 22 May 2012 00:36:25 -0700
Get Online @ Home, a partnership between Microsoft, Talk Talk and Simplify Digital, aims to give millions of Britons who can't afford to get online the chance to do so by packaging a cheap broadband connection fee with heavily discounted computers.
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Marth Lane Fox's £159 computer bundles free broadband
Mon, 21 May 2012 23:36:16 -0700
Get Online @ Home, a partnership between Microsoft, Talk Talk and Simplify Digital, aims to give millions of Britons who can't afford to get online the chance to do so by packaging a cheap broadband connection fee with heavily discounted computers.
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China adds conditions to approval of Google bid to buy Motorola Mobility
Mon, 21 May 2012 19:28:00 -0700
China approves search giant's £7.9bn bid for MMI but says the Android OS must remain stay free for at least the next five years Authorities in China have put a surprising condition on their approval of Google's $12.5bn (£7.9bn) bid to buy the US phone and set-top box maker Motorola Mobility (MMI): that the Android operating system must remain available to all for free for the next five years at ...
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HSBC customers in UK hit by “hardware failure”
Mon, 21 May 2012 01:17:22 -0700
The bank responded to complaints on its official Twitter feed by saying it was “really sorry” about the problems.
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Ask LH: What Awesome Things Still Require A Wire?
Tue, 15 May 2012 11:32:34 -0700
Dear Lifehacker, Everything is going wireless nowadays. Optical drives are being removed from computers in favour of getting content from the internet, mobile data is becoming fast enough to replace wired connections for the average person, and there are few peripherals I really use anymore. Am I missing out by ignoring the wired world? What’s still worth plugging in? Sincerely, Plugged Out ...
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HSBC customers hit by computer glitch
Sun, 20 May 2012 22:37:09 -0700
Customers of banking giant HSBC were left unable to withdraw money or make card payments as a result of a server glitch yesterday.
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What Awesome Things Still Require a Wire? Does Plugging In Even Matter Anymore? [Ask Lifehacker]
Tue, 15 May 2012 10:22:21 -0700
# asklifehacker Dear Lifehacker, Everything is going wireless nowadays. Optical drives are being removed from computers in favor of getting content from the internet, cellular data is becoming fast enough to replace wired connections for the average person, and there are few peripherals I really use anymore. Am I missing out by ignoring the wired world? What's still worth plugging in? More »
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