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"Report: Google dodges taxes by shifting profits to Bermuda"

Google's Bermuda dealings are again in the spotlight, this time in a report on the pay of top technology company executives. Five of the ten best-paid finance bosses last year work in the technology industry, as executives at companies from Apple to ...
May 09, 2013
Local Business

"Tech: Choosing wine with the touch of a screen"

Given the historic setting, it could not seem more incongruous. At the Waterlot Inn, Bermuda’s most venerable steakhouse, a cosy cottage complete with cedar beams and white linen tablecloths, the servers now greet diners by handing them an iPad. It i...
May 08, 2013
Technology

"Choosing wine with the touch of a screen"

Given the historic setting, it could not seem more incongruous. At the Waterlot Inn, Bermuda’s most venerable steakhouse, a cosy cottage complete with cedar beams and white linen tablecloths, the servers now greet diners by handing them an iPad. It i...
May 08, 2013
Technology

"Sore thumbs? OMG US text messaging declines"

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans are saying goodbye to text messaging, a wireless industry group says, as internet-based applications such as Apple's Messages are starting to taking over from what was once a cash cow for phone companies. CTIA — The Wireless...
May 08, 2013
Technology

"Mobile ads help grow Facebook’s Q1 revenue"

NEW YORK (AP) — A year ago, Facebook was just testing the waters of mobile advertising, causing plenty of headaches for investors ahead of its massive initial public offering. It has since eased those worries. The world's biggest social networking ...
May 08, 2013
Other

"World Oceans Day 2013:We’re all in it together!"

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much” — Helen Keller *** For organisms living in the ocean, sometimes the difference between thriving and perishing rests on their ability to form partnerships — often with members of their own specie...
May 02, 2013
Young Observer

"Follow the sky wanderers"

For thousands of years, people observed that some of the stars in the sky moved relative to the others. The Greeks called them “planetes” (plan EE teez), meaning “wanderers,” from which we get our word “planets.” Over time, people learned how to pred...
May 02, 2013
Technology

"Microsoft offers security enhancement for sign-ins"

NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft is offering enhanced security for its e-mail, storage and other services. People who turn on the new feature will be asked not just for a username and password, but also a second piece of information, such as a temporary cod...
May 01, 2013
Technology

"Review: Twitter music service uncovers the unknown"

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Until now, my problem with social music services has been this: Following friends doesn't really turn up much music I actually want to hear. We didn't become friends because we share musical tastes, and too few of them are using th...
May 01, 2013
Technology

"Happy birthday, Web! The internet turns 20"

Happy (belated) birthday to the internet! In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee (not Al Gore) developed a technology to help physicists in universities and institutes around the world share information. Twenty years ago this week, on April 30, 1993, the European ...
May 01, 2013
Technology

"IDC: Smartphones outsell ‘dumb’ phones for first time ever"

Say goodbye to those old-school clamshell phones because it’s finally official: smartphones have taken over the world. For the first time ever, more smartphones were shipped during the first quarter of this year than basic feature phones, according ...
May 01, 2013
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