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Investors snap up $17 billion in Apple bonds
First came the frenzy for iPhones and iPads. Now there's a scramble for iBonds. Apple Inc. sold $17 billion in bonds Tuesday, a gargantuan deal that ranked as the largest in global corporate history. And even though the securities are paying...
Tags: Stock Market, Financial Markets, Apple iPad, Finance, Employment
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In a new film, IBM goes short. Really short.
Talk about some on-screen minimalism. In a bid to “explore the limits of filmmaking,” IBM has created a movie that takes a character and reduces him to his essence—literally. “A Boy and His Atom,” a new stop-motion short...
Tags: Entertainment, Movies
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PASSINGS: Ben Pleasants, Kenneth Appel
Ben Pleasants L.A. poet and playwright Ben Pleasants, 72, a Los Angeles poet and playwright who also championed the work of Charles Bukowski and John Fante in literary critiques, died of a heart attack April 18 in Crescent City, his wife, Paula, said....Tags: Hofstra University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Colleges and Universities, University of Michigan, Freedom of the Press
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Tech-shy 'Oracle' Warren Buffett joins Twitter
Staff and wire reportBillionaire investor Warren Buffett, who famously sat out the technology bubble of the late 1990s because he said he didn't understand the companies, set up his first Twitter account Thursday. He opted for the straigtforward @WarrenBuffett handle...Tags: Warren Buffett, Companies and Corporations, Media Industry, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates
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Harris: SEC investigating allegations of bribery by onetime Chinese unit
Investigators with the Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Department of Justice are looking into possible bribery activity by a Chinese health-care technology operation formerly owned by Harris Corp., the Melbourne-based company said in a...
Tags: Avon Products Incorporated, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Corporate Crime, Bribery
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IBM team uses atoms to create world's tiniest stop-motion movie
This post has been corrected. Please see note at bottom for details.Talk about some tiny pixels: Researchers at IBM have created the world's tiniest stop-motion animation film by using single atoms to tell the story of a boy named Atom and his friend, an atom. The story is cute — Atom and his friend dance...Tags: Science and Technology
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No foolproof solution for passwords
The Raleigh News & ObserverI've developed a method for creating IDs and passwords so I can store them without any encryption or hacking worries. I do the following: 1. I always use a base user ID such as MYUSERIDn and password as MYPASSWORDnn. 2. I simply change the "n" to any...Tags: Twitter, Inc., Social Media, Google Inc., Macy's
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Patents needed for the world's first bionic eye: 255 and counting
It took a lot of time, funding and the work of countless individual researchers to create the world's first bionic eye, which gives some sight back to the blind. How long? Well, the IBM ThinkPad (remember those?) was the world's hottest laptop...
Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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Past Excalibur winners
EXCALIBUR WINNERS 2011 Don Campion, Banyan Air Service Colin Brown, JM Family Enterprises John Duffy, 3Cinteractive Kenneth F. Kahn, LRP Publications 2010 Jordan Zimmerman, Zimmerman Advertising Ray Titus, United Franchise Group Dwight...Tags: Boca Raton, AMC Liquidators, Hollywood Media Corporation, Office Depot Inc., Boynton Beach
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Cyber security bill pits tech giants against privacy activists
SAN FRANCISCO — The escalating cyber attacks on corporate and government computers have provided a rare opportunity for bipartisan legislation to address the problem. But rather than sailing through Congress, the latest cyber security legislation is...
Tags: Security, Oracle Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Computer Crime, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011
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CISPA passes House committee, angering privacy activists
The U.S. House Intelligence Committee overwhelmingly passed a cyber-security bill on Wednesday, angering privacy advocates who believe the bill fails to protect critical personal information. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2013,...Tags: Adam B. Schiff, Computer Crime, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011, Media Industry, Google Inc.
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Comptroller to hire consultant to review phone costs
Baltimore's spending panel agreed Wednesday to hire a consultant in an attempt to save money on the city's outdated phone system — even as agencies say they've identified nearly 1,200 unused phone lines that cost the city $670,000 annually....
Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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