Technology
Layoffs reported at IBM, according to union organizers
Workers at IBM's Research Triangle Park campus are braced for another round of layoffs in the wake of reports that the technology giant is implementing job cuts across North America.
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TECHNOLOGY
Quick Take: Samsung Galaxy S4 from AT&T;
No doubt the Samsung Galaxy S4 looks very similar to its predecessor the S3 which is a very good phone, but the differences between the two are significant. The S4 touts gesture controls and universal remote capabilities. How good is the S4?
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TECHNOLOGY
Google buys Israeli maps startup Waze
Google Inc., which has already outpaced all other competitors in online maps, has sealed a $1-billion-plus deal for Waze, an Israeli social mapping company popular with drivers who use it on mobile devices to avoid traffic congestion.
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WAKE COUNTY
IBM helps train Raleigh Police Department leaders
A workshop, sponsored by an IBM service grant, is designed to show how any organization - even a police department - can benefit from creative leadership.
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TECHNOLOGY
Search for 1st Web page takes detour into NC
For the European physicists who created the World Wide Web, preserving its history is as elusive as unlocking the mysteries of how the universe began.
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TECHNOLOGY
Amazon expands Fresh, tests Lockers dropoffs
With fewer worries about new sales-tax requirements, Amazon.com is free to cross over to the bricks-and-mortar world – starting with a large fleet of grocery-delivery trucks.
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TECHNOLOGY
Apple revamps iOS software
Apple Monday introduced sweeping changes to the software powering iPhones and iPads, seeking to reignite desire for its products and blunt the advance of Google’s Android mobile operating system.
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TECHNOLOGY
APPLE EVENT: New software, MacBooks, music
Apple announced a digital radio service, new MacBook Air laptops and updates to its operating systems for Mac and mobile devices Monday.
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TECHNOLOGY
BlackBerry Q10 smartphone boasts rare physical keyboard
Lovers of physical keyboards, BlackBerry hasn’t forgotten about you.
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TECHNOLOGY
3-D printing predicted to mold our tomorrows
Tim Middleton lives and breathes now, but the mind of the 42-year-old Eudora, Kan., man often floats to the future, to what one might call the printable life.
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TECHNOLOGY
Bartleby’s prefers not to see Amazon master of Web books domain
Herman Melville’s character Bartleby the scrivener famously said he “would prefer not to,” and 160 years later the owner of Bartleby’s Books would prefer not to see Amazon.com control Internet addresses ending in .book.