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Quilt of many colors helps Towson Library promote summer reading club
A quilt that features T-shirts from the last two decades of the Baltimore County Public Library Summer Reading Club was hung in the Towson Library in advance of this year's edition of the club, which begins June 11. The quilt, which was created by...
Tags: Libraries, Apple iPod, Towson
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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: Libraries, Apple iPhone, Computer Hardware, Technology, Apple iPad
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North Baltimore city crime log: Pedestrian robbed of wallet, cell phone
West Belvedere Avenue 2500 block, between 9 and 9:30 a.m. April 26. Wallet with ID and cash stolen from Blue Point Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Man left wallet in sweatshirt pocket in his room while he went to bathroom and returned to find wallet...Tags: Theft, Cell Phones, Garmin Ltd., Toshiba Corporation, Starbucks Corp.
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Apple rolls out its new iPad, with no fancy name attached
Apple unveiled its new iPad, but it's not called iPad 3 or iPad HD as widely speculated for weeks.
Rather it stuck with simply calling it the iPad, a move that speaks to the company's ambitions to have its blockbuster tablet supplant the ubiquitous...Tags: Apple iPhone, Computer Hardware, HTC Corp., New Products, Amazon.com Inc.
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St. John students shell-shocked after winning egg drop competition
It didn't take long to discover that a balloon wasn't going to work. After breaking first one egg in a hot-air balloon like contraption, then another attempting to stuff it into a balloon filled with cotton balls, friends Sarah Krammer, 12, Lucy...Tags: Engineering, Spaghetti, Technology, Science
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Crime log: Laurel Police report three armed robberies
Laurel police report felonies, arrests and property crimes. Prince George's County police report violent crimes and property crimes. Howard County police report major crimes, break-ins and car thefts. City of Laurel Eighth Street, 600 block, Jan. 8....Tags: Theft, Brooklyn Bridge, Apple iPhone, Howard County, Prince George's County
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Keeping youngsters engaged in reading
Taking some time to read at a library could win children a new iPad or a trip to Miami Dolphins training camp. Broward County Library is partnering again with the Dolphins for a summer reading program that kicks off June 9 at various libraries. The...Tags: Libraries, here! (tv network), Apple iPad, Facebook
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Is Facebook a graveyard for games?
It may be a financial bonanza for investors riding on the coattails of Facebook's grand initial public offering today, but in social gaming land, few are celebrating. Facebook, whose popularity among its nearly 1 billion users has been partly fueled by...
Tags: Social Media, Computer Hardware, Gaming Industry, Marketing, Gaming
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Facebook's gaming ecosystem looks shaky, book says
Facebook Inc.'s initial public offering isn't just a flop on Wall Street. It's also not making waves in social gaming land.
Facebook, whose popularity among its nearly 1 billion users has been partly fueled by social games published by Zynga Inc.,...Tags: Social Media, Computer Hardware, Gaming Industry, Ecosystems, Gaming
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Amazon aims to launch front-lit Kindle in July
ReutersAmazon.com Inc will launch new versions of its Kindle e-reader and tablet, including a monochrome e-reader with front lighting, a source who has seen the prototype told Reuters. The world's largest Internet retailer is aiming to have the new e-reader...Tags: Amazon Kindle, New Products, Electronics, Companies and Corporations, Apple iPad
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Frequent flyer programs: Doing the math
"I'm looking for something that can be made for a dime, sold for a dollar, and is habit-forming." That line from an otherwise forgotten play was designed to get a laugh, and it probably did. But these days, the laugh is on you: The big airlines have...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Air Transportation, Transportation, Trips and Vacations, Times Square
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Kindle Fire taking over Android side of tablet market, report says
The Kindle Fire appears to be burning up its competition -- on the Android side, anyway. Amazon.com Inc.'s tablet computer is catching on in a big way, having grabbed 54.4% of the Android tablet market by the end of February, the fourth month that it was...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Computer Hardware, Lenovo Group, Ltd., Motorola Xoom, Marketing
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