Dulles-based Orbital Sciences said Thursday that it will pay $55 million in cash to buy a satellite subsidiary of Falls Church-based General Dynamics.
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Mar 10
Orbital Sciences to buy General Dynamics’ satellite unit
Dulles-based Orbital Sciences said Thursday that it will pay $55 million in cash to buy a satellite subsidiary of Falls Church-based General Dynamics.
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Mar 10
Orbital Sciences to buy General Dynamics’ satellite unit
Dulles-based Orbital Sciences said Thursday that it will pay $55 million in cash to buy a satellite subsidiary of Falls Church-based General Dynamics.
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Mar 10
Intuit could use some quick(en) fixes for its new Mac program
About a week ago, Intuit announced that it had fulfilled one of its customers’ oldest requests: It had shipped a new Mac version of its Quicken personal-finance program that didn’t look and run like a 1998-vintage relic.
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Mar 10
Intuit could use some quick(en) fixes for its new Mac program
About a week ago, Intuit announced that it had fulfilled one of its customers’ oldest requests: It had shipped a new Mac version of its Quicken personal-finance program that didn’t look and run like a 1998-vintage relic.
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Mar 10
FBI director warns of ‘rapidly expanding’ cyberterrorism threat
SAN FRANCISCO — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III warned Thursday that the cyberterrorism threat is “real and . . . rapidly expanding.”
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Mar 10
FBI director warns of ‘rapidly expanding’ cyberterrorism threat
SAN FRANCISCO — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III warned Thursday that the cyberterrorism threat is “real and . . . rapidly expanding.”
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Feb 10
With Google Buzz, your closest circle of friends is wide open
Google Buzz is the loudest party I’ve ever been forced to attend. It’s not because there are too many people invited but because of all the chatter. I’m following only 40 others. And even if I wanted to follow a few hundred more, my network’s too small. But these 40 contacts all have their own fr…
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Feb 10
Online courses can reduce the costly sting of college
Inessa Volkonidina had taken precalculus once and dropped it. She needed to take it again, and quickly, to fulfill a graduation requirement at Long Island University. She went online and found a company with an odd name, StraighterLine, that offered the course on even odder terms: $99 a month.
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Feb 10
Online courses can reduce the costly sting of college
Inessa Volkonidina had taken precalculus once and dropped it. She needed to take it again, and quickly, to fulfill a graduation requirement at Long Island University. She went online and found a company with an odd name, StraighterLine, that offered the course on even odder terms: $99 a month.
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Feb 10
GPS capability gives Foursquare social-networking service an edge
So this guy walks into a bar. He looks around, recognizes the bartender — and whips out a cellphone, launches an app and taps a button labeled “Check-in here.” Then he gets a beer. That is a routine occurrence for people using — make that, playing — a social-networking service called Foursquare.
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Feb 10
GPS capability gives Foursquare social-networking service an edge
So this guy walks into a bar. He looks around, recognizes the bartender — and whips out a cellphone, launches an app and taps a button labeled “Check-in here.” Then he gets a beer. That is a routine occurrence for people using — make that, playing — a social-networking service called Foursquare.
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Feb 10
Obsessed with smartphones, oblivious to the here and now
Jay Ferrari was squatting on a step-stool next to the bathtub, which held his 4-year-old daughter and a rising tide, when he sensed an opening to use the Sicilian Dragon defense in his iPhone-to-iPhone chess match against his neighbor.
