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Take a 'Moment' to see whether you're addicted to your iPhone 08/01/2014 10:33am • Sophie Ho, special to wtop.com WASHINGTON -- If you've realized that you're replacing real conversations with Twitter back-and-forths, or that you spend more time Instagramming your food than actually eating it, it may be time to ask "Am I addicted to my phone?" Enter Moment: an iOS app that clo Md. firm reportedly leaves customers, employees high and dry 08/01/2014 02:44am • WASHINGTON -- Shea Winpigler is hoping to make it big in entertainment. The broadcast journalism major at the University of Maryland found a summer job that she thought would be a good fit: working at InterFACE, a talent marketing firm that claims on its website that it's helped "over 10,000 peo Microsoft spreads Cortana abroad in Windows Phone 07/31/2014 07:32pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Microsoft is spreading its Cortana digital assistant abroad, starting with China and the U.K.The company's corporate vice president of operating systems, Joe Belfiore, said Wednesday in Beijing that Chinese and British users of Windows Phones will get the voice-recognizing app in Chevy Chase Village Wants Signalized Connecticut Avenue Crosswalk 07/31/2014 10:25am • Chevy Chase Village isn’t satisfied with a plan to put a flashing yellow pedestrian signal on what the Village says could be a key crossing of six-lane Connecticut Avenue. The Maryland State Highway Administration has proposed the flashing yellow signal for Lenox Street and Connecticut Avenue Escaping email: Inspired vision or hallucination? 07/31/2014 04:10am • MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Dustin Moskovitz is plotting an escape from email.The 30-year-old entrepreneur has learned a lot about communication since he teamed up with his college roommate Mark Zuckerberg to create Facebook a decade ago, and that knowledge is fueling US companies increasingly fish for growth overseas 07/30/2014 06:26am • MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Major U.S. companies are starting to reap their most rapid growth in fertile lands of opportunity far from home.Technology trendsetters Apple Inc., Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and Netflix Inc. all mined foreign countries to produce earnings o Samsung postpones launch of Tizen smartphone 07/30/2014 03:30am • YOUKYUNG LEE AP Technology Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it is delaying sales of its first Tizen-powered smartphone in the latest setback to the company's ambition to create a mobile platform to rival Google's Android or Apple's iOS.The South Korean company ha The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store 07/29/2014 06:19pm • The Associated Press App Store Official Charts for the week ending July 28, 2014:Top Paid iPhone Apps:1. Heads Up!, Warner Bros.2. Minecraft - Pocket Edition, Mojang3. Afterlight, Afterlight Collective, Inc4. Facetune, Lightricks Ltd.5. Sleep Cycle alarm clock, Northcube AB6. 7 Minute Workout Chall T-Mobile deal helps Rhapsody hit 2M paying subs 07/29/2014 01:10am • SEATTLE (AP) -- Rhapsody International Inc. said Tuesday its partnership with T-Mobile US Inc. has helped boost its number of paying subscribers to more than 2 million, up from 1.7 million in April.Last month, Rhapsody teamed up with the nation's fourth-largest carrier on a new service called unRadi Facebook 2Q earnings, revenue soar 07/27/2014 10:38am • The Associated Press MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) -- Facebook is on a roll. The world's largest online social network posted sharply higher earnings on Wednesday as revenue from mobile advertising continued to grow, and more people used it, more often.The company's shares climbed nearly 4 percent in ext FedEx charges raise online pharmacy issues 07/26/2014 08:36pm • PAUL ELIAS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- FedEx Corp., the latest company accused in a federal probe involving illegal online pharmacies, says it will fight the charges that it knowingly shipped drugs to people who lack valid prescriptions.The company says it would have to invade the privacy Holy month of Ramadan is a big boon for retailers 07/26/2014 12:20pm • AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Glitzy billboards in the Middle East and postage stamps in the U.S. Advertisements for lingerie and sales on modest skirts. Lavish buffets and cellphone apps.Ramadan, Islam's holiest month, is a boon for retailers in the Middle East, S Will mobile devices replace binoculars at the opera? 07/25/2014 04:43pm • WASHINGTON -- As the lights dimmed Friday night at Wolf Trap theater in Vienna, Virginia, the mobile devices lit up. An entire section of the lawn was aglow in smartphones and tablets, their owners anxiously waiting for the action to start. But that evening's big performance wasn't on the sta Twitter admits to diversity problem in workforce 07/25/2014 11:50am • The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Twitter acknowledged that it has been hiring too many white and Asian men to fill high-paying technology jobs, just like several other major companies in Silicon Valley.The lack of diversity in Twitter's workforce of roughly 3,000 people was spelled out in Historic Civil War battle sites have a mobile app 07/25/2014 10:36am • ATLANTA (AP) -- This week marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Atlanta, one of the key conflicts of the Civil War, and researchers at Emory University's Center for Digital Scholarship have released a mobile app for the tour."We developed the Battle of Atlanta mobile application in order to p