Internet addiction 'disrupts brain'

Posted on January 27, 2012 by admin

Internet addiction disrupts nerve wiring in the brains of teenagers, a 'groundbreaking' study has found.
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Romney, Gingrich spar over immigration, personal issues

Posted on January 27, 2012 by admin

The tension between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich as the Florida primary approaches was on display Thursday at a Republican presidential debate in Jacksonville, Fla. The two men attacked each other on immigration, housing and their personal investments. “The idea that I am anti-immigrant is repulsive,” Romney told Gingrich, referring to an accusation in a Spanish-language [...]
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How consumer-electronics makers are faring

Posted on January 27, 2012 by admin

A look at how selected makers of phones and other consumer-electronic gadgets are faring:
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The Internet Data We Would like the Right to Forget

Posted on January 26, 2012 by admin

While Europe moves ahead with its right to be forgotten, as seasoned Internet stalkers, we've gone through and ranked the best and easiest places anyone can find personal data on the Internet. If all goes as planned, Europe will grant its Web-surfers the right to "withdraw their consent to the processing of the personal data they have given out themselves," in the words of European Commission …
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Bernanke has "finger on trigger" for new bond buys

Posted on January 26, 2012 by admin

CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve has moved closer to embarking on a new round of its controversial money-pumping after the central bank and its chairman Ben Bernanke highlighted a grim outlook for the U.S. economy. Bernanke on Wednesday opened the door a bit wider for the Fed to return to buying securities in the months ahead to buttress a weak recovery and keep inflation from slipping too far below its newly adopted 2-percent target. “It sounds like the finger is on the trigger,” said Thomas Simons, a money market economist at Jefferies & Co. …
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Apple shares soar after blockbuster earnings

Posted on January 26, 2012 by admin

Apple shares soared on Wednesday following blockbuster quarterly earnings and the California gadget-maker briefly surged past ExxonMobil to become the largest US company in terms of market value.
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Obama warns of economic inequality

Posted on January 25, 2012 by admin

President Obama warned in his State of the Union address Tuesday that the nation’s middle class is at risk because of growing economic inequality, and argued that the government must do more to preserve the basic American dream.
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Chipmaker AMD expects lower revenue in weak PC market

Posted on January 25, 2012 by admin

(Reuters) – Advanced Micro Devices Inc forecast lower quarterly revenue as a shortage of hard drives and a shaky economy hurt PC makers, sending its shares lower in after-hours trading. The PC chipmaker’s fourth-quarter adjusted earnings beat expectations, but revenue for the quarter just ended and revenue projections for the current quarter came in a bit below many analysts’ expectations. Like larger rival Intel Corp, AMD has been wrestling with slow demand for chips as consumers increasingly buy Apple Inc’s iPad instead of laptops. …
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