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The battle for the 'smart home' heats up
What if the cable guy was also your home security guy?
Maryland consumers are about to find out. Comcast Corp. has launched a marketing blitz this month to sign up customers for its new "Xfinity Home" package, which features a residential alarm system,...Tags: Television Industry, Homes, Networking, Marketing, Satellite and Cable Service
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Comcast launches "Xfinity Home" in Maryland today
If you're transfixed by the idea of a "smart home," Comcast today is launching a new product in Maryland that can help you control your home at the touch of a touch screen, iPhone or iPad. The company is rolling out its Xfinity Home package in...
Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, New Products, Apple iPhone
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Marylanders finding ways to cope at the pump
ANNAPOLIS—Sitting in your electric car, sipping organic tea from a biodegradable cup, you pull up to your bank's drive-through window quite proud of your environmental awareness and saved dollars. Then you see the silver Litespeed brand bicycle...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Apple iPad, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Automotive Equipment, Electronics
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Surveillance state saps freedom
The surveillance state expands. The Patriot Act allows our phones to be wiretapped. Our email and Internet transactions leave a trail for some to follow. The police can access our GPS location data through our smartphones without a warrant. Retailers...
Tags: Target, Barack Obama, Federal Aviation Administration, American Civil Liberties Union, Colleges and Universities
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Millennial Media posts loss in first quarter as a public company
Millennial Media Inc., a Baltimore-based mobile advertising firm, posted its first quarterly results as a public company Monday. The results included a $4 million loss but were in line with Wall Street's expectations.
The company reported revenues of...Tags: Financing and Stock Offerings, Google Inc., Business Enterprises, Advertising, Marketing
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Meet the CushPad: The perfect, plush case for your iPad
Adam Raby, a Maryland native and UMBC graduate now living in Chicago, came up with the idea for the CushPad while watching his girlfriend fumble with his precious iPad, occasionally dropping it. He also got tired of looking for ways to prop the device...
Tags: Apple iPad, Media Industry
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Laurel Library unveils new e-Book system
The sale of e-Books — digital files read on tablets like the iPad, Kindle or Nook — more than tripled from 2009 to 2010, when the sale of the new technology made for 5 percent of all books sold that year. In February 2012, the Pew Research...Tags: Apple iPad, Amazon Kindle Fire, Libraries, Technology, Apple iPhone
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Tattoos, technology converge at Baltimore body art convention
Not even getting stabbed repeatedly by a needle could get Danielle Cromb to put down her smartphone Saturday afternoon.
"I've been on Tumblr, Facebook, Pinterest," said Cromb, of Charleston, S.C., who clutched her iPhone as she was having ink injected...Tags: Apple iPad, East Hartford, Roland Park, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Baltimore Convention Center
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Walter Isaacson: BlackBerry for work, iPhone for personal use
The great news for Baltimore and Maryland is that the University of Maryland Baltimore County's president, Freeman A. Hrabowski III, was named to Time's annual Top 100 influential people today. Another person on the list: Walter Isaacson, known...
Tags: Steve Jobs, Baltimore County, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Apple iPhone
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AAPL: Apple's plans for huge cash hoard
Apple today announced what many were expecting, given its huge war chest of around $100 billion in cash: future stock dividends and a stock repurchasing program. The company released the news in a conference call early Monday. It's amassed a huge pile of...Tags: Apple iPad, Microsoft Corp., Tim Cook, Buyback, Apple iPhone
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Apple event: The new iPad cometh
Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, is on stage in San Francisco talking about iPad stuff. I'm following Engadget and Gdgt blogs for live blogging, and I'll post key details here as they come.
* Cook announces a new Apple TV, with 1080 (HD) capability. New user...Tags: Apple iPad, Tim Cook, Verizon Communications, New Products, Apple iTunes
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Feds target high e-book prices
Good news for consumers fed up with the high price of e-books: The Justice Department has warned Apple and five major publishers that it plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of electronic books, the Wall Street Journal reported...Tags: Apple iPad, Book, Steve Jobs, Newspaper and Magazine
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