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Xirrus enables Las Vegas Sands Casino to Charge WiFi Premium

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As a hotel guest, I am always annoyed when I am required to pay extra for WiFi. But thanks to WiFi service from a Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based startup, lets a Las Vegas casino charge an even higher...

Traffic Bottlenecks in New Jersey Over Upcoming Super Bowl

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Those affluent few who book private jets to the Super Bowl are facing crowded airports. And what to say of those who are being conveyed by vehicular means. The venue is MetLife Stadium in New Jersey...

Windows Phone is in Danger

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Everyone was expecting Nokia’s smartphones sale in Q4 2013 to go up, with estimates that it would break 10 million units. Instead they sold 8.2 million Lumia handsets, a sequential drop on the...

Macintosh At 30: Interesting, Profound And Curious Things Said About the Mac

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— The Macintosh ‘speaking,’ with help from a computer-generated voice narrator, at its introduction by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984 at the Flint Center in Cupertino, California....

Display Ads are as Compelling As TV Spots

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In the lobby of Google’s Building 900 at its Mountain View headquarters, there’s a display of Google-colored squares and rectangles that looks like a bland abstract-art piece. It turns out these are...

GameStop Gets more PS4 Consoles in Stock

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It may already be too late, but GameStop announced yesterday that its US retail locations had received a big shipment of PS4 consoles. GameStop says that it has been working with Sony to get more of...

Are you Buying Fitness Wearables From Electronics Companies?

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Having spent the week at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), it would appear that fitness & sport tech has started to reach mainstream prominence.  In a way it has, in others...

BART police officer accidentally shot and killed by fellow officer

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A police officer accidentally shot a fellow officer on Tuesday in San Francisco. 42-year old Det. Sgt. Tommy Smith died from the gunshot wound at the Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley.The reason...

Fish Oil seen to Protect the Aging Brain

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We’re all invested in maintaining brain health, particularly over the long haul. Cognitive decline is a too-common side effect of aging, and Alzheimer’s disease is unnervingly prevalent. So it’s...