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Five steps to becoming un-LinkedIn
QUESTION: A few months ago I joined LinkedIn, the social website for business, but I’ve found it to be a gigantic pain. I would really like to unsubscribe, but I have not been able to find a way to...
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Associated Press Twice co-founder Noah Ready-Campbell stands in his warehouse Oct. 2 in San Francisco, Calif. Twice is a start-up company that works like a brick and mortar clothing resale store, but is totally online. Customers sell Twice their clothes for cash, then buyers purchase the items online at 70-90 percent of retail value.
Thrift stores go digital
Hate that old blouse? Fear not: A slew of new startups are running virtual marketplaces where folks can sell or buy secondhand treasures. Companies like Poshmark, Twice and Threadflip are offeri...
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EBay unveils big redesign with a nod to popular pinning website
NEW YORK — EBay has redesigned its website to encourage visitors to browse and collect items they might want to buy later with something it calls the “feed.” The feature, reminiscent of popular ...
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Associated Press Yohanna Thomas of Las Vegas, demonstrates a video roulette shell Wednesday during the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas. While casino executives agree that internet gambling is inevitable, they question whether state or federal authorities should regulate it.
Internet gambling industry awaits approval
LAS VEGAS — Internet gaming, the next frontier for casinos, occupies center stage here this week at the Global Gaming Expo, known as G2E. What form I-gaming will take and how it will be regulate...
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Associated Press Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle prepares a book for digital scanning in 2006 in San Francisco. Google already has scanned more than 20 million books.
Battle of the books
SAN FRANCISCO — Google and major book publishers have settled a lengthy legal battle over digital copyrights, but a bigger dispute still looms with thousands of authors who allege that Google is il...
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Associated Press Nokia's smartphone, the Lumia 920, equipped with Microsoft Windows Phone 8, is displayed Sept. 5 in New York. AT&T announced it will be selling the smartphones, which will fun Windows Phone 8, Windows' latest release.
AT&T to begin selling Nokia’s first Windows 8 smartphones
NEW YORK — Lending support to two companies struggling to make a comeback in smartphones, AT&T Inc. said Thursday it will be selling Nokia smartphones that run Windows Phone 8, Microsoft’s upcoming...
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Tech Q&A
QUESTION: My wife and I are considering the purchase of an iPad and need to know if, in addition to receiving or sending e-mail, it can send a signal to a wireless printer to print a document recei...
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Companies offer options to dispose of old cellphones
Nine in 10 American adults own a mobile phone, according to the Pew Internet Project, and of those nearly half own smartphones. But with Apple and other phone makers constantly upgrading their m...
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Apps help make a family record
Here’s a look at smartphone applications to foliate a family tree, digitize and post old family snapshots, and probe for family connections among obituaries published around the world. Ancestry,...
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Associated Press A new search engine helps researchers and students find bills that may become aws. The Library of Congress is unveiling the new website Congress.gov in beta form to eventually replace its THOMAS system.
New search engine offers better access to Congress
WASHINGTON — Congress unveiled a new search engine Wednesday to help politicos, lobbyists, researchers, students and any other interested citizens find legislation working its way through the House...
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