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• Smartphones can soon be used to ‘e-hail’ NYC taxis

  Dec. 13, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Raising your arm and yelling “taxi!” is the old-fashioned way to nab a New York City cab. Soon, all you’ll need is a smartphone app. New …

• NY agency voting on using smartphones to hail cabs

  Dec. 12, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Every New Yorker knows how to hail a yellow cab. The next step for some might be to “e-hail” a cab using a smartphone.

• Google Maps return to iPhone with new mobile app

  Dec. 12, 2012 in Nation/World SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google Maps have found their way back to the iPhone. The world’s most popular online mapping system returned late Wednesday with the release of the Google …

• Apple’s softer side emerges under CEO Cook

  Dec. 7, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — “Those jobs aren’t coming back.” That’s what Steve Jobs reportedly told President Obama when asked at a dinner in early 2011 whether Apple would consider moving …

• Cyber Monday likely to be busiest online sales day

  Nov. 26, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Americans clicked away on their computers and smartphones for deals on Cyber Monday, which is expected to be the biggest online shopping day in history. Shoppers …

• Cyber Monday likely to be busiest online sales day

  Nov. 25, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Bye-bye Black Friday. So long Small Business Saturday. Now, it’s Cyber Monday’s turn. Cyber Monday, coined in 2005 by a shopping trade group that noticed online …

• Why must we buy? Black Friday’s powerful pull

  Nov. 23, 2012 in Nation/World BEAVER FALLS, Pa. (AP) — Gravy was still warm. Dallas Cowboys were still in uniform. Thanks were still being given across the country as the pilgrimages to the stores began, … 1

• Stores try to make holiday shopping cheap and easy

  Nov. 21, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — This holiday season, Burger King won’t be the only place where you can have it your way. It used to be enough for stores to promise …

• Stores borrow from fast-food industry’s playbook

  Nov. 21, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — This holiday season, Burger King won’t be the only place where you can have it your way. It used to be enough for stores to promise …

• Tired of dark, Sandy victims head to loved ones

  Nov. 2, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Jill Meltz lives in an Upper West Side high-rise — just a one-bedroom, but far from the havoc wreaked by Superstorm Sandy in lower Manhattan. And …

• Where do I click, again? A guide to Windows 8

  Oct. 26, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — With the launch of Windows 8, buyers are about to discover a computing experience unlike anything they’ve seen before. Here’s a guide to getting past some … 2

• Apple’s iPad Mini much pricier than rival tablets

  Oct. 23, 2012 in Nation/World SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Apple Inc.’s pencil-thin, smaller iPad will cost much more than its competitors, signaling the company isn’t going to get into a mini-tablet price war. The … 1

• Einstein’s brain is now interactive iPad app

  Sept. 25, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) — The brain that revolutionized physics now can be downloaded as an app for $9.99. But it won’t help you win at Angry Birds. While Albert Einstein’s genius …

• Apple, Samsung demand changes to $1B verdict

  Sept. 22, 2012 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Neither side in a bitter patent battle is satisfied with Apple Inc.’s $1 billion jury verdict over Samsung Electronics Co. after a three-week trial this summer. …

• Florida firm is source of Apple data in breach

  Sept. 10, 2012 A Florida company said Monday that the database of Apple device information that hackers stole and posted on the Internet last week came from a file the firm had in …

• FBI disputes claims of hackers’ Apple data breach

  Sept. 4, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI on Tuesday disputed a computer hacker group’s claim that it stole personal identification data on millions of Apple device owners from an FBI agent’s laptop. …

• Apple unveils $499 tablet, $629 with AT&T data

  Jan. 27, 2010 in Business SAN FRANCISCO — Apple Inc. will sell the newly unveiled tablet-style iPad starting at $499, a price tag far below the $1,000 that some analysts were expecting.

• TV makers hope 3-D grabs market share

  Jan. 7, 2010 in Business on Page A8 LAS VEGAS – This is supposedly the year 3-D television becomes the hot new thing: Updated sets and disc players are coming out, and 3-D cable channels are in the …