Monthly Archives: March 2011

+1 Button Lets Users Approve Google Search Links (NewsFactor)

Written on March 31, 2011 by Editor - Technology News

If you like something, tell your friends. That’s the reasoning behind Google’s newest feature enhancement for its popular search engine — a +1 button to indicate you’ve given your approval to something that will show up in search results. A … Continue reading →

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Microsoft files EU competition complaint vs Google (Reuters)

Written on March 31, 2011 by Editor - Technology News

SEATTLE/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp stepped up its rivalry with Google Inc, claiming in its first-ever complaint to antitrust regulators that Google systematically thwarts Internet search competition. The formal complaint to European Commission regulators marks a role change for Microsoft, … Continue reading →

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Review: iRobot’s smart mop could use some muscle (AP)

Written on March 31, 2011 by Editor - Technology News

DECATUR, Ga. – The engineers at iRobot Corp. continue to fill the world with wondrous robots, the latest being a compact floor-washing machine called the Scooba 230. I tested the $300 robot on some kitchen and bathroom floors, pockmarked with … Continue reading →

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New memoir highlights tension between Allen, Gates (AP)

Written on March 31, 2011 by Editor - Technology News

NEW YORK – In a memoir out next month, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen details tensions in his relationship with Bill Gates, including a scene from 1982, when he overheard Gates talking to current CEO Steve Ballmer about reducing Allen’s … Continue reading →

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Former aide says she saw trainer inject Bonds (AP)

Written on March 31, 2011 by Editor - Top News Stories

SAN FRANCISCO – Barry Bonds’ former personal shopper testified that she witnessed the slugger’s private trainer inject Bonds in the belly button before a road trip during the 2002 season. Kathy Hoskins said Thursday she was in Bonds’ bedroom packing … Continue reading →

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7 NY state IT workers are Mega Millons winners (AP)

Written on March 31, 2011 by Editor - Top News Stories

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – The seven state workers from the Albany, N.Y. area who won last week’s $319 million Mega Millions jackpot may have gotten some extra luck from the patience and appetite of the man delegated to buy the winning … Continue reading →

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Clintons, Mondale among mourners at Ferraro rites (AP)

Written on March 31, 2011 by Editor - Top News Stories

NEW YORK – Onetime vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro was remembered as a political trailblazer and a devoted mother and friend Thursday at a funeral that drew dignitaries including former President Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and … Continue reading →

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Report: Study of gay, transgender health needed (AP)

Written on March 31, 2011 by Editor - Top News Stories

WASHINGTON – Scientists only recently learned how certain diseases affect women differently than men, and blacks differently than whites. Now a major new report says it’s time to study the unique health needs of gay and transgender people, too. Stigma … Continue reading →

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Ivory Coast fighters descend upon main city (AP)

Written on March 31, 2011 by Editor - Top News Stories

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast – Fighters trying to install Ivory Coast’s democratically elected president months after the disputed vote descended Thursday on the country’s largest city, aiming to unseat the nation’s entrenched ruler as gunfire broke out across Abidjan. The regular … Continue reading →

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Republicans grill DHS officials on FOIA delays (AP)

Written on March 31, 2011 by Editor - Top News Stories

WASHINGTON – Republicans in Congress objected Thursday to the Homeland Security Department’s now-rescinded practice of requiring secretive reviews by political advisers of hundreds of requests for government files under the Freedom of Information Act. The chairman of a House oversight … Continue reading →

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