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<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 18:03:06 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google launches 'All Access' music plan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The streaming service, called All Access, is available in the U.S. for $9.99 per month after a 30-day free trial.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[The streaming service, called All Access, is available in the U.S. for $9.99 per month after a 30-day free trial.]]></dig:D3text>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 22:00:40 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Amazon introduces Amazon Coins, its own virtual currency</title>
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<description><![CDATA[All registered users of Amazon's Kindle Fire e-book reader will receive 500 free Amazon Coins, the online retailer's new virtual currency.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[All registered users of Amazon's Kindle Fire e-book reader will receive 500 free Amazon Coins, the online retailer's new virtual currency.]]></dig:D3text>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 20:40:44 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Spring Tech Gadgets</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Whether you're heading out this spring, or just enjoying a break at home, spring into action with some of the hottest new tech that will make the season blossom.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[Whether you're heading out this spring, or just enjoying a break at home, spring into action with some of the hottest new tech that will make the season blossom. 1.  Spring Cleaning
•           Clear the clutter and upgrade your technology with the Lenovo Ideapad Yoga UltrabookTM Convertible, inspired by Intel $1,049 
•           Clean the gutter with the iRobot Looj 330 Gutter Cleaning Robot.docx $299

2. Spring Training

•           Capture some great outdoor actions shots with the Sony Action Cam (HDR-AS10) $199.99
•           Experience MLB like never before with Playstation MLB The Show 13 for PS3 - $59.99 & PS Vita - $39.99

3.   Spring Break 
•           No outlet? No problem! Recharge your devices with the Motorolla P4000 Universal Portable Power Pack 
•           iHome iDL45 Clock Dock w/Lightning Connector $99.99]]></dig:D3text>
<dig:keywords><![CDATA[Spring Gadgets with tech expert Jennifer Jolly]]></dig:keywords>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:32:15 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Astronaut tweets Chicago photo from space</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Canadian astronaut,  Commander Chris Hadfield, has  tweeted an incredible photo of Chicago as seen from the International Space Station.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[A Canadian astronaut,  Commander Chris Hadfield, has  tweeted an incredible photo of Chicago as seen from the International Space Station.]]></dig:D3text>
<dig:keywords><![CDATA[Astronaut, Commander Chris Hadfield, tweets, twitter Chicago photo, International Space Station]]></dig:keywords>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:27:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>YouTube to launch subscription music streaming service</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It appears YouTube is getting into the streaming music business.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[It appears YouTube is getting into the streaming music business.]]></dig:D3text>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:24:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Red Cross Tornado app now available</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Red Cross is launching a new, free app that is like having a weather radio in your pocket and your own personal severe  weather alert.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[The Red Cross is launching a new, free app that is like having a weather radio in your pocket and your own personal severe  weather alert.]]></dig:D3text>
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<dig:alt><![CDATA[To get the app, just search tornado on your phone and it should come right up.]]></dig:alt>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 01:45:21 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pandora caps free mobile radio streaming to 40 hours per month</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The internet-radio company announced this week that mobile devices will be limited to 40 hours of listening per month, in an attempt to keep down rising royalty costs.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[The internet-radio company announced this week that mobile devices will be limited to 40 hours of listening per month, in an attempt to keep down rising royalty costs.]]></dig:D3text>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:24:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Digital Underground: Chicago Women Developers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[At Chicago Women Developers, you can learn to design your own website, and it all started with a simple quest by a Chicago entrepreneur.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[At Chicago Women Developers, you can learn to design your own website, and it all started with a simple quest by a Chicago entrepreneur.  You probably know that behind every webiste, there is the code, a language telling the computer what to do.  And that's about how much Melissa Pierce said she knew about computer programming when she had an idea.

"I had just finshed a documentary film, and I was trying to build a website for that," she said.

It was a simple idea to build her own website, and she knew enough to get started.

"I saw one of my friends who said, 'Come to open hacking, everyone's welcome, bring your project," she said.
So she went off to  an open hack night, a sort of a support group for progrmmers.  But she never expected the response from the group of men.]]></dig:D3text>
<dig:keywords><![CDATA[Digital Underground: Chicago Women Developers]]></dig:keywords>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:48:33 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer causes uproar on working from home</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The CEO of Yahoo is causing an uproar amongst working mothers.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[The CEO of Yahoo is causing an uproar amongst working mothers.]]></dig:D3text>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:33:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>StreetWise vendors now accepting PayPal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There is a new way to pay for the magazine StreetWise, which benefits the homeless in Chicago.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[There is a new way to pay for the magazine StreetWise, which benefits the homeless in Chicago.]]></dig:D3text>
<dig:keywords><![CDATA[StreetWise vendors to accept PayPal; There is a new way to pay for the magazine StreetWise, which benefits the homeless in Chicago.]]></dig:keywords>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:34:22 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Jeep's Twitter account hacked</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It appears Jeep is the latest corporate customer to fall victim to a Twitter hack attack.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[It appears Jeep is the latest corporate customer to fall victim to a Twitter hack attack.]]></dig:D3text>
<dig:keywords><![CDATA[Jeep's Twitter account hacked; burger king, twitter, mcdonalds, anonymous]]></dig:keywords>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:25:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>How to fix broken iPhones, iPads, iPods, other gadgets</title>
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<description><![CDATA[With so many gadgets on the market these days--  iPhones, iPods, iPads, and others-- there is bound to be a time when you find yourself with a cracked screen or some other issue with your gadget.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[With so many gadgets on the market these days--  iPhones, iPods, iPads, and others-- there is bound to be a time when you find yourself with a cracked screen or some other issue with your gadget.]]></dig:D3text>
<dig:keywords><![CDATA[With so many gadgets on the market these days--  iPhones, iPods, iPads, and others-- there is bound to be a time when you find yourself with a cracked screen or some other issue with your gadget.]]></dig:keywords>
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<title>Google glasses first look at developers' event in San Francisco</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Google gave a select group of developers their first look at its new high-tech glasses Monday at an event wrapped in a cloak of secrecy.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[Google gave a select group of developers their first look at its new high-tech glasses Monday at an event wrapped in a cloak of secrecy.]]></dig:D3text>
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<dig:alt><![CDATA[Google gave a select group of developers their first look at its new high-tech glasses Monday at an event wrapped in a cloak of secrecy.]]></dig:alt>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:36:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Tech Gifts and Gadgets for the Holidays</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gadgets and tech gifts are all the rage this holiday season, and there's a lot to choose from.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[Gadgets and tech gifts are all the rage this holiday season, and there's a lot to choose from.]]></dig:D3text>
<dig:keywords><![CDATA[Tech Gifts and Gadgets for the holidays from Mark Saltzman of USA Today, Gadgets and tech gifts are all the rage this holiday season, and there's a lot to choose from.]]></dig:keywords>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:24:09 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>FBI: 'Butterfly botnet' targeted Facebook users</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The FBI says a ''Butterfly botnet'' cyber-attack targeted Facebook users around the world and was responsible for over $850 million in losses.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[The FBI says a ''Butterfly botnet'' cyber-attack targeted Facebook users around the world and was responsible for over $850 million in losses.]]></dig:D3text>
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<title>3-D family portraits on sale in Japan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This year, some people in Japan are getting a high-tech alternative to the family portrait: 3-D figurines of the family.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[This year, some people in Japan are getting a high-tech alternative to the family portrait: 3-D figurines of the family.

   It all begins with   a 3-D scanner  shooting 15 minutes worth of images.
   
The end product,  a figurine, does not come cheap.
   The small, 4-inch version cost about $250.

   For now  it's only available in Japan.]]></dig:D3text>
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<title>First text message sent 20 years ago today</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It may seem hard to believe but the first text was sent 20 years ago today.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[It may seem hard to believe but the first text was sent 20 years ago today.]]></dig:D3text>
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<title>Joint Center for Energy Storage Research could make Chicago area hub for battery technology</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new multi-million dollar energy resource center could turn Chicago into the battery capital of the United States. The hope is that center will create environmentally friendly batteries for products like electric vehicles.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[A new multi-million dollar energy resource center could turn Chicago into the battery capital of the United States. 

The hope is that center will create environmentally friendly batteries for products like electric vehicles.

The goal is for Argonne National Laboratory to create a research institute for battery technology in Illinois   that will combine research around the country into one location.

  Mayor Rahm Emanuel says Chicago and Illinois will become the center of that research  and all the promise of jobs and economic opportunities that come from that.

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu joined Governor Pat Quinn and Mayor Emanuel to announce a team led by Argonne National Laboratory has been selected for an award of up to $120 million over five years to establish a new batteries and energy storage hub in suburban Lemont.

"Very important for American industrial competitiveness, very important that research be intimately linked with manufacturing in a way that will actually propel the United States forward and this is what the hub concept is about," said Chu. 

"To create in five years batteries that are more powerful  and cheaper,   we are taking coordinated mission driven programs here that will lead to breakthroughs in energy science and train and inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers ," said Eric Isaacs, director of Argonne.
"We are going to develop batteries that are five times more powerful, five times  cheaper within five years. That is an ambitious goal."

"Other labs were competing for this grant, which is why I am so proud that  we here in Chicago and state of Illinois are going to be the center of a promising field," said Mayor Emanuel.

   The hub will be called the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research. 
   It will combine the power of five Department of Energy national laboratories,  five universities, and the private sector in an effort to achieve revolutionary advances in battery performance for electric cars and for use on our aging power grid.
   
   Governor Quinn said he is providing millions of dollars to help build the state-of-the-art facility.

"This particular industry, this battery technology industry, is a $42 billion   worldwide industry, and  it's growing at  about 8 percent a year, and we want to get part of that," said Quinn.


Mayor Emanuel said the hub will make Chicago the electric vehicle and batteries capital of the nation,  and will create incentives to encourage the making of more electric vehicles.

   The hope is that Illinois will become the epicenter of research on this subject.]]></dig:D3text>
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<title>GM connecting iPhone's Siri with Chevrolet Sonic, Chevrolet Spark</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some cars will soon be linked with the iPhone's Siri voice-recognition system.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[Some cars will soon be linked with the iPhone's Siri voice-recognition system.]]></dig:D3text>
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<title>Black Friday apps</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Brad Spirrison, managing editor, Appolicious Inc., stops by to talk about apps.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[Brad Spirrison, managing editor, Appolicious Inc., stops by to talk about apps. A bit older, but still the best price comparison app around. If you're in a store, you can scan the barcode or take a picture of an item you are interested. Within seconds, you will find out if Amazon or one of its merchants offers the product for a better price. Retailers in 2011 complained that consumers were effectively using their stores as showrooms, and purchased competitor products from within their stores. While this is admittedly tacky, the method is not going away and ultimately brings down pricing for everyone. eBay also offers the Red Laser barcode scanner for iOS and Android for free, and there are several other independent competitors. 

Macy's (iPhone, Android free) 
<http://www.appolicious.com/shine/apps/128424-macy-s-macys-inc
Call it the Revenge of the Retailer. Rather than trying to beat Amazon/eBay at their own game, Macy's this year is partnering with eBay. There are app-exclusive sales and alerts for unadvertised sales pushed to consumers while they stand in line. Other major retailers upping their games this year are Sears (app exclusive specials), and Walmart (interactive maps of locations) 

Shopping by TheFind 
Just for iPhones (no Android) and free. Sources deals near you and you can search by product/store. 
<http://www.appolicious.com/shine/apps/437716-shopping-by-the-find-thefind


Zaarly: Buy from Amazon Local People (iPhone, Android free)
<http://www.appolicious.com/shine/apps/655769-zaarly-buy-from-amazing-local-people-zaarly-llc 
Sort of a Craig's List for specialized services, this app will help identify local craftsmen and women in your area to make something unique. You can also use the app to find/pay somebody to stand in line in your place. Financed by the Groupon founders, Ashton Kutcher and other high-profile investors 

Discount Calculator (iPhone free)
Find out exactly how much you can save - all in with taxes, cash back, etc. - with this free app. Also helps with list curation and organization. 
<http://www.appolicious.com/finance/apps/859379-discount-calculator-free-with-shopping-list-sales-tax-guide-mobile-to-go-michael-chu> 

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<description><![CDATA[In an effort to cut Chicago's crime rate, police superintendent Garry McCarthy unveiled a new piece of technology Thursday that he claims will help officers investigating incidents involving gunfire.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[A Purdue University expert analyzed the facial expressions of President Obama and Mitt Romney after their first debate.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[Many people are analyzing what President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney had to say in Wednesday night's debate. But one college professor was closely watching the debaters' facial expressions to determine what they were feeling during the debate.

The CIA, the FBI and even some members of local law enforcement are trained to spot what are known as micro-expressions, a slight lip raise, a glance off, any small, almost imperceptible movement that shows what a person is really feeling.
  
Mix in videotape and some fancy software,  and a computer will do it for you, picking up simple movements in key areas of the face like the forehead, eyes, lips and jaw.
  The computer program then translates those movements into emotions like surprise, fear, disgust, anger or pride.
  
Put it all together and you get a snapshot of how the candidate himself was feeling during the first presidential debate of 2012.

  Squirreled away in a computer science lab on the campus of Purdue University, Chris Kowal analyzes 395 specific points on the human face.

"Overall, Mitt Romney was much more expressive," Kowal said.

Those expressions can give insight, says the professor.
  His analysis found, during the debate, anger, scorn and pride in himself were the most common emotions shown by Mitt Romney.

  Barack Obama frequently showed pride, happiness, but also sadness.   That may be the computer picking up on the president's frequent downward gazes.

"He didn't connect on an emotional level with those voters because he himself wasn't experiencing the emotions that they were looking for," Kowal said.

  Experts say those subtle emotional tells play out in how the candidates are perceived.  

Fifty-eight million people watched the debate on television.
  Adding importance to first impressions: 10 million people shared their take on Twitter.    

 "The social media circulates the contents of the debate much faster," said Northwestern University's David Zarefsky. "They make it a bit more irreverent, and they are more willing to take down candidates a peg."

  Les Lynn runs Chicago Debate Committee, a program for 76 high schools. He says President Obama forgot the first rule of debating: engage your opponent.



"Barack Obama has to view the debate different. He's got to go all in," Lynn said. "He's got to look at it as a contest in order to be re-elected.    He didn't. I think he was looking for a draw."

  Back on the Purdue campus, the computers found both men shared the same shortcoming Wednesday night.
  
"That emotional connection is perhaps the biggest deficit that both of these candidates are facing," said Kowal.

The campaigns themselves are also analyzing the debate,  determining what worked and what didn't.  

President Obama's national campaign spokesman told ABC7 Thursday the president knows he needs to come out swinging harder next time.
 
 Keep in mind, at this stage of the game, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are competing for undecided voters, who will likely make the difference in battleground states, which according to the most recent ABC poll make up just 6 percent of the electorate.]]></dig:D3text>
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<description><![CDATA[Days of waiting are over for many people who have been camping out for the new iPhone.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[The new iPhone is
faster.  It has 4G.
It actually has a taller
screen, and those are just
some of the reasons why so
many people are standing in
line at the Michigan Avenue Apple
Store in Chicago.  A lot of those people had
been there since Tuesday or
Wednesday. Other people got there Thursday 
night 

"I have been here
since 3:30 in the morning.
i bought a spot from this
young lady here.
I have been very excited to
get it.  I can't wait to get my hands
on it," said one liner stander. "I really like the new
connector that you can plug
in any way, so I'm really
looking forward to it."

One woman sold her spot in line for $100.

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phone.  I just want the money," she said, adding she owns an Android phone.

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<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama's nomination acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night produced a record number of Twitter posts.]]></description>
<dig:D3text><![CDATA[President Barack Obama's nomination acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention Thursday night produced a record number of Twitter posts.

  Twitter's blog reports there were nearly 53,000 tweets per minute reacting to the speech just after it was delivered.

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