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Published: Jan 08, 2012
HOW do you create public-service software? Run a contest. In recent years, city governments have increasingly used that model to spur software developers to build apps they do not have the budget or brainpower to create themselves. Public agencies put data online and offer cash prizes. Developers write code. The resulting apps help guide residents

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Published: Dec 25, 2011
The Ivy League, which is experiencing an athletic revival with several teams ranked nationally, is a doggedly atypical N.C.A.A. Division I sports conference. For starters, the eight members are virtual heretics in the landscape of American big-time college sports for fielding about 280 teams in 35 sports without athletic scholarships. The league

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Published: Dec 04, 2011
FOR the second year in a row, the Monday after Thanksgiving -- so-called Cyber Monday, when online retailers offer discounts to lure holiday shoppers -- was the biggest sales day of the year, totaling some $1.25 billion and overwhelming the sales figures racked up by brick-and-mortar stores three days before, on Black Friday, the former perennial

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Published: Dec 04, 2011
FOR the second year in a row, the Monday after Thanksgiving -- so-called Cyber Monday, when online retailers offer discounts to lure holiday shoppers -- was the biggest online sales day of the year, totaling some $1.25 billion and overwhelming the sales figures racked up by brick-and-mortar stores three days before, on Black Friday, the former

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Published: Nov 06, 2011
International COLOMBIAN REBELS A DANGER DESPITE LEADER'S DEATH The killing of the top commander of Colombia's largest guerrilla group dealt what might be the most severe blow yet to the four-decade-old insurgency, but security experts said that the rebels still had the ability to regroup and carry on the fight. Elite Colombian forces had been

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Published: Sep 13, 2011
Washington IN November, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could redefine the scope of privacy in an age of increasingly ubiquitous surveillance technologies like GPS devices and face-recognition software. The case, United States v. Jones, concerns a GPS device that the police, without a valid warrant, placed on the car of a

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Published: Sep 13, 2011
Washington IN November, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could redefine the scope of privacy in an age of increasingly ubiquitous surveillance technologies like GPS devices and face-recognition software. The case, United States v. Jones, concerns a GPS device that the police, without a valid warrant, placed on the car of a

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Published: Aug 21, 2011
ONE carmaker after another is proposing an answer to a question: how do you show off lavish wheels without looking like, well, a show-off? For many middle-aged buyers, crisis-averting red sports cars are out. Instead, the runaway trend is the ''four-door coupe,'' a description that seemed to be less of an oxymoron after the success of the 2005

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Published: May 01, 2011
LIKE a lot of other college seniors, Alexandra Leumer got her introduction to the heady and hazardous world of law school scholarships in the form of a letter bearing very good news. The Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco had admitted her, the letter stated, and it had awarded her a merit scholarship of $30,000 a year -- enough

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Published: Feb 24, 2011
It's an old pattern by now. Phase 1: Apple introduces some new gadget. The bloggers and the industry tell us why it'll fail. Phase 2: It goes on sale. The public goes nuts for it. Phase 3: Every company and its brother gets to work on a copycat. It happened with the iMac and the iPhone. Now the iPad is entering Phase 3. Apple sold 15 million iPads

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GADGETWISE; Tip of The Week
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Extreme Users Consume Oversize Chunk of Bandwidth, Study Shows
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Mainland Chinese Flock to Hong Kong to Have Babies 23-Feb-2012

HONG KONG — For years, Hong Kongers have nursed complaints about the growing parade of visitors to their city from mainland China . The mainlanders spit, litter, jaywalk and cut in line, the locals grouse; they talk too loudly, eat on the subway and otherwise flout Hong Kong’s more refined standards of public behavior. Those are
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Two Western Journalists Killed in Syria Shelling 23-Feb-2012

CAIRO — Syrian security forces shelled the central city of Homs on Wednesday, the 19th day of a bombardment that activists say has claimed the lives of hundreds of trapped civilians in one of the deadliest campaigns in nearly a year of violent repression by the government of President Bashar al-Assad . Among the scores of people that activist
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Campaigns Use ‘Microtargeting’ to Attract Supporters 21-Feb-2012

Political campaigns, which have borrowed tricks from Madison Avenue for decades, are now fully engaged on the latest technological frontier in advertising: aiming specific ads at potential supporters based on where they live, the Web sites they visit and their voting records. In recent primaries, two kinds of Republican voters have been seeing two
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Shares Close Down First Time in 4 Trading Days 23-Feb-2012

Stocks closed lower Wednesday for the first time in four trading days. Some investors worried about the details of a bailout deal reached for Greece on Tuesday. But analysts said investors were mostly in a holding pattern after seeing the market hit an important psychological mark. “The market is pausing for the next slew of good news,”
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Two Western Journalists Killed in Syria Shelling 23-Feb-2012

CAIRO — Syrian security forces shelled the central city of Homs on Wednesday, the 19th day of a bombardment that activists say has claimed the lives of hundreds of trapped civilians in one of the deadliest campaigns in nearly a year of violent repression by the government of President Bashar al-Assad . Among the scores of people that activist
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Two Seek to Claim Control of Field at G.O.P. Debate 23-Feb-2012

MESA, Ariz. — Mitt Romney called into question the fiscal conservative credentials of Rick Santorum in a fiercely combative debate on Wednesday evening, taking urgent steps to redefine Mr. Santorum while trying to reassert his command in the fight for the Republican presidential nomination. With the Arizona and Michigan primaries only six
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