Published: Feb 23, 2012
You’re probably paying something like $60 a month for high-speed Internet. I’m paying $5 a month, and my connection is 1,000 times faster. Your iPad can’t play Flash videos on the Web. Mine can. Your copy of Windows needs constant updating and patching and protection against viruses and spyware. Mine is always clean and always
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Published: Feb 23, 2012
BRUSSELS — Microsoft filed a complaint Wednesday with European Union antitrust authorities accusing Google and Motorola Mobility, a smartphone company the Internet search giant plans to buy, of charging too much for use of its patents, marking a new stage in a long-running feud between Microsoft and Google. “We have taken this step
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Published: Feb 23, 2012
PARIS — With nary a kiss to the hand nor tears of parting, the French government this week bids adieu to “Mademoiselle.” In a memo addressed to state administrators across France , Prime Minister François Fillon ordered the honorific — akin to “damsel” and the equivalent of “miss” —
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Published: Feb 23, 2012
CAIRO — During a terrifying two minutes on Wednesday morning, 11 rockets slammed into a single apartment building in the Baba Amr neighborhood of Homs, the city in Syria that has been besieged by government forces for 19 days. When the barrage stopped, the surviving occupants stampeded down the building’s narrow concrete staircase,
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Published: Feb 22, 2012
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Tuesday defended the New York Police Department ’s monitoring of the Web sites of Muslim student groups at more than a dozen universities across the Northeast, framing the effort as one way to guard against the threat of terrorism. “The Police Department goes where there are allegations, and they look to
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Published: Feb 22, 2012
SEOUL — The South Korean government on Tuesday announced “no-mercy” measures, including harsh prison terms and life-time bans from sports, to fight match-fixing scandals that have already tainted some of the nation’s most popular professional leagues and have threatened to implicate more. South Korea, which will host the
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Published: Feb 21, 2012
A prominent environmental researcher, activist and blogger from California admitted Monday night that he had deceitfully obtained and distributed confidential internal materials from the Heartland Institute , a libertarian group based in Chicago devoted in part to questioning the reality of global warming . Peter H. Gleick, founder and president of
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Published: Feb 21, 2012
PRINCETON, N.J. — As a serial snack-food entrepreneur, Warren Wilson is no stranger to the challenges of running a business. In the early days of his first enterprise, selling funnel cakes at fairs, there was the time when, tired of losing money on inclement days, he bought weather insurance — and proceeded to lose even more money than
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Published: Feb 19, 2012
HOTEL chains have been loading on the perks for their most loyal customers recently. Earlier this month Starwood Hotels & Resorts announced new benefits that go into effect March 1, including rolling 24-hour check-in for those who stay at least 75 nights a year and personal travel assistants, called Ambassadors, for guests who stay 100 nights.
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Published: Feb 19, 2012
LARRY VECCHIO, a Monmouth County real estate broker, was ahead of the curve in the late 1990s when he started buying up a number of generic-sounding Internet domain names that he thought might come in handy one day. The URLs he first went after were “Homesin(fill in the blank).com,” the blank being the names of the 20 towns his agency,
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