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IN a shift, the Transportation Security Administration plans to replace the walk-through metal detectors at airport checkpoints with whole-body imaging machines — the kind that provide an image of the naked body.
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Chris GashRelatedFrequent Flier: A Felon, and Author, in the Next Seat (April 7, 2009) Not Home, but Not [...]

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SALES clerks still ask customers, “May I help you?” on the floors of many department stores, but some shoppers may soon choose to be served instead by a computer kiosk with clever software.
The new kiosks aren’t the stodgy kind that have long dispensed boarding passes, train tickets and family snapshots. Instead, they have sleek [...]

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People who go online to donate to charity for the first time often do not return to the Internet to make later gifts, according to a new study examining the experience of 24 nonprofit groups.
The findings suggest that while the Internet can be a valuable fund-raising tool for charities, particularly in soliciting gifts after disasters [...]

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp swung to a quarterly loss, battered by steep price falls for flat panel TVs and a firmer yen, and warned on Friday it would post its first ever annual operating loss.
Sharp cut its annual dividend outlook by a [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO — Amid a deepening recession and an intensifying controversy over the health of its chief executive, Apple reported strong first-quarter profits on Wednesday that surprised analysts and handily beat Wall Street’s expectations.
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Devotees at Macworld did not see Steve Jobs as usual. The S.E.C. is investigating [...]

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FACED with writing a school report on an Australian animal, Tyler Kennedy began where many students begin these days: by searching the Internet. But Tyler didn’t use Google or Yahoo. He searched for information about the platypus on YouTube.
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SAN FRANCISCO — When Carol Bartz made her debut in front of analysts, investors and reporters as Yahoo’s new chief executive Tuesday, one thing became immediately apparent: if nothing else, Yahoo’s leadership style had taken a 180-degree turn.
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SAN FRANCISCO — During past downturns, layoffs were mostly a private affair. Big companies tended to issue vague press releases filled with jargon about “downsizing,” and start-ups often gave people the pink slip without telling the world anything at all.
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Steven Carpenter, left, the chief [...]

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Samsung Q310
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Samsung announced earlier this week that it would begin selling laptops in the U.S., and the first model, the 13-inch Q310 has is now for sale on Newegg.com. Two Q310 models are listed, the СЕКРЕТУТКА,049 Q310-34G and the нфШс-РЈРΜРЅРΜРҐР¶РΜСЂ,249 Q310-34P. (The prices reflect a $100 and a $50 discount, respectively.)
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On Tuesday, Apple will announce plans and possibly redesigns for its laptop line. As usual, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company has been tight-lipped on details, but CNET editors have their suspicions.
On this edition of the CNET News Daily Debrief, CNET’s Kara Tsuboi and Crave chief correspondent Erica Ogg discuss new design possibilities, [...]

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