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Verizon Wireless Abandons Plan for $2 Monthly Fee After Customer Uproar
In a head-snapping about-face, Verizon Wireless has dropped the $2 monthly fee it planned to impose on some of its customers.
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Santa Sets Records on Christmas Eve
December 27, 2011 While Santa raced across the globe on his traditional holiday run last Saturday night, more than a million children tracked his every move by phone, computer and even Twitter.
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The Muppets Sing Queen + David Bowie’s ‘Under Pressure’ in Google Commercial
The Muppets are the latest celebrities — they are A-listers in the plush world, mind you – to appear in a Google TV ad. In their spot, Kermit & Co. hawk Google+ to the strains of ‘Under Pressure’ by Queen and David Bowie.
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Facebook Friends Dumping You? It’s Probably Something You Said [INFOGRAPHIC]
If you recently lost a slew of Facebook friends, it probably wasn’t a glitch. Go back and look at your timeline because the chances are good it’s your own fault.
That’s what a new study from Nielsen seems to indicate anyway. The group surveyed about 2,000 adults to learn why Facebook users add and remove friends, and the results may surprise you.
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‘Send a Call from Santa’ to Keep Kids in Line… or to Have a Little Holiday Fun
Parents have been using the threat of Santa’s “naughty or nice” list for so long now that it may be losing its strength, so the nice folks at Google stepped in to help.
Enter a little information at Send a Call from Santa and your little one will get a voicemail from the North Pole denizen himself. You can customize it to be as personal as you like, including details like the child’s name, gender and what’s on his or her holiday wish list.
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The Beatles’ ‘Yellow Submarine’ Comes to Apple’s iBooks Store
A little over two years after the Beatles‘ classic albums finally arrived in the iTunes store, another of the band’s classic works is arriving in Apple’s digital emporium. But this time, fans can look forward to an a more interactive offering from the Fab Four.
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Tech-Savvy 4-Year-Old Saves His Unconscious Grandpa with an iPhone [VIDEO]
Four-year-old Kanden Jones may not know the difference between taking a nap and blacking out, but he sure knows how to use an iPhone.
It was a guys’ day for the kid and his grandfather Carl Jones when the two were out deer hunting in the woods. When the worst happened — thankfully not a hunting disaster — Kanden was left with an unconscious grandpa.
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Bruce Springsteen to Give 2012 SXSW Keynote Speech
Bruce Springsteen is scheduled to give the keynote address at the annual South by Southwest Music and Media Conference and Festival (SXSW) on March 15, 2012 in Austin, Texas.
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Can Electricity Shock Your Brain Into Learning Faster? It Works for the Air Force
One of the toughest things to teach Air Force pilots who guide unmanned attack drones is how to accurately spot targets in complex radar images. Researchers, however, have found a way to cut that lengthy training time in half.
Delivering a mild electrical current to pilots’ brains through EEG electrodes placed on the scalp — a process called transcranial direct current stimulation (TDCS) — can accelerate learning and improve pilot accuracy. In addition, that accuracy is sustained for up to 40 minutes, whereas it otherwise typically declines after 20 minutes.
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Urine-Controlled Video Games Make Going to the Bathroom Not So Boring [VIDEO]
Guys, what’s the main problem with the bathroom? Could it be the lack of video games? A British gaming company solved this problem when it began testing a line of urinal mounted, urine-controlled video games that allow fellows to use their “joysticks” to control the action.
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How Far Will Your Company Go to Change Your Behavior on the Clock?
You probably already know about existing employee monitoring software that can capture your keystrokes or screenshots or track which websites you visit while on the clock — but a new patent idea from Microsoft would take workplace surveillance one step further with software that can actually analyze human behavior.
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Facebook and Twitter Are Harming Our Kids, Says Majority — Survey of the Day
Facebook, Twitter and all the other social media sites have changed the way young people interact with each other, but according to a survey from Poll Position, the majority of Americans don’t think this has been a change for the better.