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High-Tech Cheaters Pose Test
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High-Tech Cheaters Pose Test

As computer-based testing becomes more common across the country, cheaters and those trying to prevent it are going high-tech.

Expenses Mount For App Launches
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Expenses Mount For App Launches

Mobile-game maker ZeptoLab UK on Thursday released "Cut the Rope: Time Travel," its first major title in the popular "Cut the Rope" series since 2011.

Inside the App Culture
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Inside the App Culture

I wouldn't say I have my finger, or any body part, on the pulse of the tech scene. Most of my knowledge of New York City's Internet start-up and mobile-app culture...

What Thousands of Job Vacancies Say About Microsoft
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What Thousands of Job Vacancies Say About Microsoft

Analysts at Griffin Securities conducted a handy piece of research on Microsoft recently: scanning the company's careers websites and analyzing the details of the...

The Messaging Apps Taking on Facebook, Phone Giants
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The Messaging Apps Taking on Facebook, Phone Giants

On a recent Saturday, Johan Dijkland, a 23-year-old student in Emmen, Netherlands, opened a free messaging app called Line on his iPhone. Then he tapped on a virtual...

Apps: The New Corporate Cost-Cutting Tool
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Apps: The New Corporate Cost-Cutting Tool

The biggest mall in town stopped staffing its customer-service desk in January. But perched on that same desk recently was a plastic cutout of a hand holding a...

Tracking Sensors Invade the Workplace
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Tracking Sensors Invade the Workplace

A few years ago when Bank of America Corp. wanted to study whether face time mattered among its call-center teams, the big bank asked about 90 workers to wear badges...

U.s. Ups Ante For Spying on Firms
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U.s. Ups Ante For Spying on Firms

The White House threatened China and other countries with trade and diplomatic action over corporate espionage as it cataloged more than a dozen cases of cyberattacks...

Sewing Machines Go High-Tech
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Sewing Machines Go High-Tech

The old-fashioned sewing machine is finally getting a modern makeover.

Inside Michael Dell's World
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Inside Michael Dell's World

Michael Dell is close to finishing a risky $23 billion deal to take private the computer company he founded nearly 30 years ago, in an effort to remake Dell Inc...

The ­ps and Downs of Making Elevators Go
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The ­ps and Downs of Making Elevators Go

You press a button and wait for your elevator. How long before you get impatient and agitated? Theresa Christy says 20 seconds.

In the Future, Who Will Need Teachers?
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In the Future, Who Will Need Teachers?

Guitar teacher Erich Andreas works from a basement studio in Nashville, Tenn. His classroom, though, is the world itself.

In Des Moines, Turning Off Beacon Unleashes a Storm
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In Des Moines, Turning Off Beacon Unleashes a Storm

A Des Moines television station has turned off the lights on the city's Weather Beacon, igniting a tempest among residents who were raised to look downtown for...

My Life as a Telecommuting Robot
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My Life as a Telecommuting Robot

I was strolling down the hall to a meeting on a Wednesday afternoon when I suddenly blacked out, coming to a halt.

Pentagon Digs In on Cyberwar Front
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Pentagon Digs In on Cyberwar Front

The U.S. military is accelerating its cyberwarfare training programs in an aggressive expansion of its preparations for conflict on an emerging battlefield.

Nbc, Google, Stage 'war Games' To Prepare For Olympic Disruptions
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Nbc, Google, Stage 'war Games' To Prepare For Olympic Disruptions

NBC and Google are conducting "war games" in at least three countries, to prepare for the possibility of hacker attacks or hardware malfunction disrupting the online...

A Dive Into the Digital Deep
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A Dive Into the Digital Deep

When next winter's storms subside, a specialized ship will begin a slow crossing, lowering a skinny cable into its wake along a precisely prescribed path: the shortest...

Putting the Tech in Metrotech
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Putting the Tech in Metrotech

MakerBot Industries' 3-D printers can create everything from jewelry to bottle openers seemingly out of thin air. Now developers are hoping the hip tech company...

Firms Try to Turn 'black-Ops It' Into Products
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Firms Try to Turn 'black-Ops It' Into Products

Since the early days of Silicon Valley, rogue engineers and software developers have engaged in "black-ops IT," a tradition of sneaking new technology into their...

Microsoft Banks on Mobile Apps
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Microsoft Banks on Mobile Apps

Microsoft Corp., struggling to dent the dominance of Apple Inc. and Google Inc. in the smartphone market, is stepping up efforts to court app makers like Hemi Weingarten...
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