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| 1 | Cool yule buzz on the latest in gift gear for your nerd | Personal Technology |
| U.S. shoppers plan to spend an average of $222 each on consumer electronics this holiday season, up 8 percent from last year, according to the Consumer Electronics Association. | ||
| 11/21/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 2 | Coming soon: basic remote controls redesigned with voice-recognition | Business |
| Since then, the standard remotes that most viewers get with their TVs or when they sign up for cable have changed little, adding buttons but retaining the same basic design and button format in an effort to keep costs low. | ||
| 7/18/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 3 | Plasma and LCD beware; OLED screens ready to go mainstream | Business |
| OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screens and televisions have been perpetually around the corner for years now, and Sony's introduction last year of an 11-inch OLED television for $2,500 seemed more like a bad joke than a real product. But OLED is about ready to go mainstream. | ||
| 7/4/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 4 | What to get your geek | Business |
| Why it's a good gift: Cold drinks are nice. This little device — kind of a reverse hot plate — plugs into any powered USB port to keep your canned and bottled drinks cool, if not cold. No software required. Who would like it: Everyone likes a cold drink. | ||
| 12/15/2006 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 5 | What to get your geek | Business |
| Why it's a good gift: Cold drinks are nice. This little device — kind of a reverse hot plate — plugs into any powered USB port to keep your canned and bottled drinks cool, if not cold. No software required. Who would like it: Everyone likes a cold drink. | ||
| 12/15/2006 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 6 | HD-DVD discs, players arrive — in small dose | Business |
| The biggest boost for the new formats will be that sales of high-definition televisions — a necessity to take full advantage of high-def movies — are booming. The total number of HDTVs sold in the United States is expected to surpass standard television sales this year. | ||
| 4/17/2006 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 7 | Men's, women's online aims vary | Nation and World |
| For example, men are more likely to check sports news (59 percent vs. 27 percent of online women), get financial information (56 vs. 33 percent), download software (48 vs. 31 percent) or participate in an auction (30 vs. 18 percent). Men are also more likely to pay bills online than women (42 vs. | ||
| 12/28/2005 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 8 | Entrepreneur offers lessons worth copying | Business |
| This fall, Orfalea is promoting his new book: "Copy This! Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic Who Turned a Bright Idea into One of America's Best Companies." | ||
| 11/26/2005 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 9 | Survey: Nurses generally satisfied in jobs | Business |
| Registered nurses know there's a staff shortage and say the quality of patient care has declined as a result, but most are still satisfied with their jobs, a new survey has found. | ||
| 8/20/2005 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 10 | Medical-device firms detect rise in hiring needs | Business |
| "Our hiring plans will be over the next 12 months to add maybe 10 people," he said. "A couple of those people will need to have engineering backgrounds in order to work with and help move forward our design and manufacturing processes." | ||
| 8/20/2005 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 11 | Use of radio-frequency technology growing, but shake-up may loom for firms that sell it | Business |
| Even as uses for the digital barcodes and tracking chips proliferate, the radio-frequency identification industry may be on the verge of a shake-up that could hit the Dallas area harder than others. | ||
| 6/19/2005 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 12 | Despite the hype, Sony PSP no sellout in debut | Business |
| DALLAS — Sony's PSP portable video-game device that went on sale last week seemed an instant sensation, marked by midnight launch parties at stores and lines of eager gamers huddled in rain and cold to get the system. | ||
| 3/28/2005 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 13 | Robots take over across the globe | Business |
| Robby the Robot and C-3PO may still be years away from reality, but robot vacuum cleaners, medical robots, surveillance robots, underwater robots and demolition robots are here now. | ||
| 12/25/2004 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 14 | Stores may struggle to retain workers | Business |
| DALLAS — Many retailers are gearing up for the holiday season by adding temporary workers. But many stores could find themselves scrambling to hold on to their existing staffs if they're not careful, experts say. Online job board CareerBuilder. | ||
| 11/20/2004 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 15 | Holiday hiring: Shop for a job now | Business |
| According to the National Retail Federation, average monthly retail employment in 2003 was 23.47 million. During November and December, average retail employment was 24.39 million, a 3.9 percent increase. | ||
| 10/16/2004 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 16 | "Usability" experts help tame high technology | Business |
| "The PC is probably one of the most unusable pieces of technology out there," he said. "We've had to bend and change our mental models to adapt to this really odd piece of technology." | ||
| 9/25/2004 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 17 | Federal overtime rules kick in next week | Nation and World |
| Labor experts are still arguing over whether millions of workers will gain or lose overtime rights, but regardless of who is correct, employers have to be in compliance starting Monday. Most say they are ready for the new guidelines and aren't planning major changes in overtime-pay policies. | ||
| 8/16/2004 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 18 | New medical program leads students to an artistic career | Business |
| Nicole Hillborn's interest was piqued when she got the chance to illustrate a Web site detailing cat genetics, but she knew she'd found her calling when she leafed through a brochure on eye surgery. | ||
| 7/31/2004 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 19 | Foreign competition clouds job outlook | Business |
| The unemployment rate for electrical and electronics engineers shot up to 6.2 percent in 2003 — a nearly 50 percent increase from 2002 — and sent the industry scrambling for ways to increase jobs. | ||
| 5/8/2004 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 20 | Go figure: Statistics is fertile field | Business |
| But Gunst, who chairs the statistics department at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, works hard to dispel the notion that statistics can be twisted to suit convenience. "It is absolutely not true that you can say anything with statistics," he said. | ||
| 2/21/2004 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||