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With higher fees and packed planes, patience runs thin for air travelers

Frank Granati is fed up with air travel: the sometimes baffling security rules, the lack of amenities on board, the rude fellow passengers. Granati, who stopped over at Miami International Airport on his way home to Long Island from Grenada Wednesday, ... Read >

Facebook Users Targeted in Massive Spam Run

Software / Services March 18, 2010 7:00 AM Facebook Users Targeted in Massive Spam Run * More… * Facebook * Twitter * Digg * Print ShareThis By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service Facebook's 400 million users have been tar... Read >

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek hopes to bring music streaming service to the U.S.

But the Swedish entrepreneur, whose free, ad-supported service already has 7 million users in Europe, says talks with record labels and rights holders have bogged down over details. By Alex Pham, Todd Martens and Mark Milian The last time a young en... Read >

Browser Ballot Screen Boosts Opera

Opera Software said downloads of its Web browser have more than doubled since Microsoft implemented an EU mandated ballot screen in Windows that gives users the choice to install browsers other than Internet Explorer. Opera downloads have increased 153... Read >

Amazon.com Offers Kindle for Mac E-Reader Software

Amazon.com introduced a free software package Thursday that gives Mac computer users access to the online retailer's Kindle e-book store in more than 100 countries. Called Kindle for Mac, the beta e-reader completes Amazon's goal of offering consumers acc... Read >

Commodore 64 Awakes From Slumber With Makeover

The vintage Commodore 64 personal computer is getting a makeover, with a new design and some of the latest computing technologies, as the brand gets primed for a comeback. The Commodore 64 was a home computer running on an 8-bit processor released by C... Read >

Authority deals with unexpected elevator repair, HVAC computer software bills at OLC

The Quincy Civic Center Authority on Wednesday authorized Oakley-Lindsay Center Executive Director Rob Ebbing to seek bids to rehabilitate an elevator at the center. The OLC already was making plans to carry out repairs, but more mechanical issues surf... Read >

Day after strike, jails' health workers locked out

OAKLAND â€" Health care workers at both jails in Alameda County were locked out Wednesday, a day after they staged a one-day strike to protest stagnant contract negotiations. "It's just another intimidation tactic," said Maxine Persky, a nurse for 10 y... Read >

Obama Gets Tough on Health Care Fraud

ST. CHARLES, Mo. â€" President Obama continued his drive for a health care overhaul on Wednesday, ordering a crackdown on Medicare and Medicaid waste and fraud and dispatching his secretary of health and human services, Kathleen Sebelius, to take on insur... Read >

HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: More Funds Needed for HIV Prevention and Treatment

The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA) and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) expressed alarm over dwindling commitment to fund HIV programmes in poor countries. They expressed their concerns on the ... Read >

What Kind of Health Care Reform Would Actually Help the Debt?

President Obama hopes to sign both additional economic stimulus plans and a comprehensive health care bill within the next two months. To get some perspective on these two critical issues, I spoke with Robert Reischauer, the director of the Congressional ... Read >

Having health insurance doesn't ensure it will be easy to find a doctor

It seemed like a relatively simple process: When you get sick, first call your primary-care doctor. Second, visit said doctor. Third, follow doctor's orders: Fill prescriptions, take to bed, whatever. Fourth, get better. But what if you can't even get ... Read >

Trouble for Mitt Romney? Mass. Health Plan Covers Abortion

Mitt Romney's role in overseeing passage of a universal health care plan in Massachusetts appears likely to cause headaches for the former Republican governor should he make his widely-expected run for the White House in 2012. As Matt Yglesias noted Su... Read >

Cost of health care, not a lack of competition, driving up costs of coverage, Mass. insurers maintai

SPRINGFIELD - Local health insurers said the cost of care, not a lack of competition among insurers or a thirst for profits, is driving up the cost of health care coverage. "It's higher than last year because medical costs have gone up since last year,... Read >

Obama Confuses Decades, Inflates Estimated Health Care Savings by $868B

President Obama, making his final push for health care reform, pitched his proposal Monday to a crowd in Pennsylvania with a deficit-reduction figure that the White House later admitted missed the mark. "Our cost-cutting measures mirror most of the pro... Read >