Time-Share Scams Multiply As Swindlers Offer Resale Deals
WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 23: Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) For years, the appeal of part-time home ownership in a desirable area...
View ArticleObama’s ‘Power Africa’ Plan Greases Billions In Deals For General Electric
President Obama talks with General Electric Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In Cape Town, South Africa over the weekend,...
View ArticleA humerus reunion: American doctor returns Vietnamese veteran’s arm
HANOI, Vietnam — An American doctor arrived in Vietnam carrying an unlikely piece of luggage: the bones of an arm he amputated in 1966. Dr. Sam Axelrad brought the skeletal keepsake home to Texas as a...
View ArticleTablet Tease: Microsoft Surface Channel Debut Bypasses Bulk of Partners
Microsoft is finally bringing Surface to the IT channel — but only to 10 of its volume partners. The software giant Monday disclosed the launch of its Microsoft Devices Program, a two-tier IT channel...
View ArticleCarl Icahn, Jefferies nab $5.2B to finance Dell deal — report
Dell headquarters in Round Rock, Texas. (Credit: Dell) Activist investor Carl Icahn, along with his partner Jefferies Co., have secured billions in financing for their Dell bid, a new report claims....
View ArticlePOLICE: Trio destroyed city-owned flower pots, made off with table
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Louisville Metro Police say they’ve arrested three people who waged a path of destruction through several city-owned potted plants. According to arrest reports, officers were...
View ArticleBlue Jackets’ Sergei Bobrovsky gets two-year deal
Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Sergei Bobrovsky’s solid play down the stretch got his team a tiebreaker short of the playoff.(Photo: Russell LaBounty, USA TODAY Sports) Sergei Bobrovsky’s journey from...
View ArticleDean Heller Stops Hosting Weekly Breakfast With Harry Reid
In a display of bipartisanship, Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had been co-hosting a weekly breakfast for Nevadans visiting Washington, D.C., giving...
View ArticleAuthors lose class status in Google digital books case
By Jonathan Stempel Mon Jul 1, 2013 1:38pm EDT (Reuters) – Google Inc notched a legal victory in its bid to create the world’s largest digital books library, winning the reversal of a court order that...
View ArticleFacebook Pulls Ads From Pages That Contain Violent, Racy Content
MENLO PARK, California (AP) — Facebook is pulling ads from pages that contain violence or sexual content. The social network said that on Monday, it will expand its definition of pages and groups that...
View ArticleNokia Music Mix Party Turns Everyone Into a DJ
Sick of your friend always setting the July 4 barbecue soundtrack to Barry Manilow and show tunes? The days of “Copacabana” over hamburgers are over: Nokia Music and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer have...
View ArticleFord, Chrysler and GM see big sales gains
The 2014 Ram 1500 crew-cab pickup.(Photo: Chrysler Group) • Detroit’s Big 3 automakers reported strong sales gains in June, compared to the same month a year ago. Ford reported a 13% driven by a 24%...
View ArticleFacebook mulls plan to become game publisher — report
Facebook is considering getting into the gaming business as a publisher, a new report claims. The social network is currently working with a few mobile-game developers to iron out a deal that would see...
View ArticleHow AT&T Can Translate Your Speech in Real Time
A smooth delivery of translation is certainly a quirk to many translation services, given the complexity of language, and no system is perfect today. What makes (ATT Translator) a strong competitor in...
View ArticleNewegg Daily Deals: ASRock Z87 Extreme6 Motherboard, AMD A10-5800K …
Print Top Deal: Building a new system around Intel’s Haswell architecture? We like the way you think, and we’d like to help. That’s why today’s top deal is for an ASRock Z87 Extreme6 LGA 1150...
View ArticleYahoo tapped as digital partner for Emmy Awards
Yahoo will live-stream red-carpet and behind-the-scenes content for this year’s Emmy Awards, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences said Tuesday. This is the first time the television academy has...
View ArticleRazer Blade 14-Inch Gaming Notebook Review
Introducing the Razer Blade 14-Inch Despite arguably still being a market that supports growth, the gaming notebook arena has remained relatively staid over the past few years. At the highest end we’re...
View ArticleReports: Pacers agree to re-sign David West to three-year deal
David West will reportedly remain in Indiana for up to three years. (David E. Klutho/SI) The Pacers have reportedly agreed to re-sign unrestricted free-agent forward David West to a multi-year...
View ArticleComputer’s Screen Inspired First Video Game, ‘Space War’
Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: We’ve been talking occasionally with inventors about what...
View ArticleDefense: Ice Cream Photo Taken Before Testimony
A defense attorney for George Zimmerman says a photo showing him eating ice cream with his daughters was taken a day before prosecutors allege in a court motion. Prosecutors claimed the photo was...
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