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• Personal computer sales decline steeply

  April 11, 2013 in Business on Page A8 SAN FRANCISCO – The ailing personal computer market is getting weaker, and it’s starting to look as if it will never fully recover as a new generation of mobile devices … 3

• Christmas Bureau gets technological

  December 3, 2012 in City on Page A1 For anyone who’s counting, there are 22 days until Christmas, when kids everywhere will rise before the sun ready to tear into their presents. That leaves 22 days to raise …

• Students show computer skills in national competiton

  March 29, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S4 Spokane high schools had a strong showing at this year’s National CyberPatriot Championships in Washington, D.C., last week. Teams from Lewis and Clark High School and John R. Rogers High … 1

• Tough economy drives training programs on computer, job skills

  January 5, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S1 When Bobbi Worley became unemployed in August, she figured she’d find a new job rather quickly. After all, she’d worked as a bookkeeper for 40 years in a handful of … 2

• Gates testifies in $1 billion lawsuit against Microsoft

  November 21, 2011 in Business, Nation/World Billionaire Bill Gates envisioned a computer in every home in America, and he wanted to be the one who put them there, the Microsoft Corp. co-founder testified today in a … 13

• Officer’s text message ruled a factor in pedestrian fatality

  June 29, 2011 in City on Page A1 A Spokane police officer who hit and killed an intoxicated pedestrian in his patrol car in January was typing a message into his onboard computer just before the crash. Officer … 90

• Jim Kershner: Computer’s perfection no match for the human touch

  February 26, 2011 in City on Page A5 After hearing about the “Jeopardy” victory of Watson, the IBM supercomputer, I decided to stage a head-to-head contest of my own against Watson. “Hey, Watson,” I said, to this big-headed …

• Do Your Part: Don’t throw out your electronic waste

  February 7, 2011 in Features on Page C1 Electronic waste is on the rise in the United States at a startling rate. In fact, it is growing at nearly three times the rate of any other kind of … 2

• Repairs continue after flooding at Geiger

  January 24, 2011 in City A power outage caused by basement flooding at Geiger Corrections Center on Sunday, “reflects the challenges of keeping the pre-World War II facility operational,” the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office said …

• GEEK PHILOSOPHY

  April 4, 2010 in Business on Page E1 MINNEAPOLIS – Robert Stephens recalls with precision the night he signed the deal that would put his sassy startup, Geek Squad, under the massive corporate umbrella of Best Buy. Parked …

• Web usage up at libraries

  March 26, 2010 in City on Page A5 A new University of Washington study confirms why library computers in the Inland Northwest are always busy. A third of Americans 14 and older – about 77 million people nationwide …

• UW study: Third of Americans use library computers

  March 25, 2010 in City, Nation/World, Region A new University of Washington study confirms why library computers in the Inland Northwest are always busy. 4

• Printer cartridge makers come under fire

  January 17, 2010 in Business on Page E1 KANSAS CITY, Mo. – An ounce of filet mignon can cost you $1 at your grocery store, and the butcher won’t hesitate to quote you the price. But the cost … 1

• How to make your computer’s cookies crumble

  December 20, 2009 in City on Page E3 Ready or not, it’s cookie season once again – the little bits of tracking software that Web sites deposit on your computer. People used to pout and cry about these …

• Computer losses inspire new mantra: back up

  September 3, 2009 in Washington Voices on Page V1 I never thought I’d be grateful that my husband shocked himself and simultaneously fried the hard drive on my computer last August – but I am. After Derek’s home improvement …

• 2 businesses bet on increasing Apple users

  June 3, 2009 in Business For most of 2008 the Spokane area had just one in-store retail seller of Apple Inc. products; that was Best Buy, the national entertainment chain that carried a limited array … 5

• Technology Can Divide Us As Well As Create Unity Noted Author Will Speak On Ethics Tonight At Whitworth

  March 9, 1995 in City on Page B2 Rushworth Kidder Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review