Author: Jessica Mintz
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Apple delivered more than 300,000 iPads on day of debut
SEATTLE — Apple Inc. said Monday that it delivered more than 300,000 iPads on its opening day, meeting expectations of some analysts while underscoring the challenges the company still faces marketing the device beyond early adopters. The total seemed modest given the weeks of hype about the revolutionary nature of Apple’s new touch-screen tablet device.…
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Mayo Clinic backs new personal health record site
SEATTLE – The Mayo Clinic has combined its medical expertise with Microsoft Corp.’s technology in a free Web site launching Tuesday that will let people store personal health and medical information. The Mayo Clinic Health Manager, as the site is called, is one of many emerging services for so-called personal health records. The sites, from…
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Changes to Apple’s iTunes prices take effect
SEATTLE – The era of one-price-fits-all-songs on iTunes came to an end Tuesday as Apple Inc., the Internet’s dominant digital music retailer, began selling some of its most-downloaded songs for $1.29 apiece. Apple said in January that it would end its practice of selling all individual songs for 99 cents each and begin offering three…
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Microsoft launches Internet Explorer 8
SEATTLE • Microsoft Corp. released a new version of Internet Explorer on Thursday, adding features meant to speed up common Web surfing tasks. Internet Explorer 8, which marks Microsoft’s first major browser update since August 2006, takes a stab at fixing many of the small annoyances people encounter every day on their computers. For one,…
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Microsoft to slash 5,000 jobs, misses on 2Q profit
SEATTLE – Microsoft Corp. said today it is cutting 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months – more than 5 percent of its work force – a sign of how badly even the biggest and richest companies are being stung by the recession.The layoffs appear to be a first for Microsoft, which was founded in…
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Scrabble vs. Scrabulous
A sanctioned version of Scrabble for Facebook, released recently by video game maker Electronic Arts Inc., boasts animated graphics and true-to-the-board-game design.Underneath its flashy exterior, the new Scrabble’s features are very similar to those of its wildly popular but unauthorized competitor, Scrabulous. But Scrabulous, for now, is no longer an option on Facebook: The brothers…
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ART, INCORPORATED
Curating Microsoft’s art collection is a full-time job for Laura Matzer, seen here with a piece by Jaq Chartier called “Tiny Tests.†The collection is for the benefit and inspiration of employees, she said. Photo by (AP)