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Weekly tech news roundup for September 20
This week’s news highlights: Microsof buys Minecraft (and set the gaming community into a freakout), an astrophysics professor invents a $110 earthquake early warning device, and Microsoft announces a Windows event for September 30th. Also, check out a new reasonably-priced fitness tracker from Misfit and a leaked picture of a new Kindle e-reader called the Voyager (maybe it’ll be released in time for the holidays?).
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Consumer Alert: new phishing scam uses fake virus warnings
Our Remote PC Support team is getting reports of a new kind of malware making the rounds on the Internet you need to know about. Find out what the scam looks like, what victims are being told, and how to fix it.
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Cheap Tunes Tuesday: The Black Crowes
Today’s highlighted band, The Black Crowes is no slouch when it comes to carrying the torch for southern roots. Hailing from Marietta, Georgia, they understand and have been influenced by all the great acts of their generation, and the generation before them. Their’ initial release, Shake Your Money Maker, is an album that you could easily describe as an instant classic—it has sold more than 5 million copies in the U.S. alone. If you’re not one of those who bought it back then, you can rejoice that now you can get it for much cheaper than most of those millions.
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Weekly tech news roundup for September 12
This week: Apple—what, when, and which one should you get (in only 3 paragraphs :-)), Higgs boson news which could mean the destruction of the known universe…maybe, and check out some printed solar cells that could revolutionize solar power as we know it. Also, if you’ve considered the new Nook you might want to read a few reviews first, find out how they recorded the sound of a single atom moving, and you have got to get a load of some creepy but amazing GIFs using historical photos.
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Community Connections—September
Employees from TDS Telecom, Baja Broadband, and OneNeck (BendBroadband employees we’re sure you’re busy too and we’ll tell you how you can be featured in this segment at the end of this story)continue to make strong community connections through their good works! From helping out local food pantries to getting soaked for a good cause, employees across the enterprise are doing what they can to help others. Find out some of the great things being done…
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