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Sony, Samsung detail 3D TV plans
Sony and Samsung announced plans to introduce 3D televisions in coming months, betting they will become the next hot products in an increasingly crowded electronics industry.
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U.S. Web retail sales to reach $249 bln by '14
Online retail sales in the United States could reach $248.7 billion by 2014, growing 60 percent from 2009, according to a study released on Monday.
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IPad to hit stores April 3
Apple Inc said the first iPads will be in U.S. stores on April 3 and hit nine international markets from Japan to the United Kingdom later in April.
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Sony developing handheld devices to counter Apple
Japanese electronics giant Sony is developing a new lineup of handheld products to counter Apple's stable of portable devices, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
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Viacom to drop Jon Stewart, Colbert Report from Hulu
Viacom Inc's Comedy Central is withdrawing its popular comedy shows "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" from online video service Hulu, a Hulu executive said on Tuesday.
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Apple sues HTC for iPhone patent infringement
Apple announced Tuesday that it had filed a lawsuit against HTC, maker of the Nexus One smartphone from Google, accusing the Taiwan company of infringing on 20 iPhone patents.
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Sony tells PS3 owners not to play while it fixes bug
Japanese electronics giant Sony on Monday advised owners of older versions of the PlayStation 3 not to use the videogame console until it can fix a problem with the clock in the system.
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Facebook patents social networking update feeds
Facebook has won a US patent on news feeds behind the kinds of real-time updates that make social-networking websites a hit with users.
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Virtual reality games may help stroke victims recover
Playing on a virtual reality gaming system may help stroke patients improve their motor function, according to a small study presented Thursday at a conference of the American Stroke Association.
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Watching the Games? Switch on your cellphone
Cellphones and the Internet are muscling in on more traditional media as ways to see the Olympic Games, and the trend will only deepen, organizers said on Tuesday.
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Her Facebook status changed to "single?" Ur dumped
Digital dumping is on the rise, according to a survey, with growing numbers of people preferring to use email and social networking Web sites to break up with their partners.
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U.S. pinpoints code writer behind Google attack
U.S. government analysts believe a Chinese man with government links wrote the key part of a spyware programme used in hacker attacks on Google last year, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
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U.S. agency says Google can be power marketer
Google Inc won approval from U.S. energy regulators to act as a power marketer, which will make it easier for the Internet search giant to obtain renewable energy to run its huge data centers.
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Microsoft steps up search assault on Google
Microsoft Corp's assault on search engine leader Google Inc took a major step forward on Thursday as U.S. and European regulators cleared the software company's search partnership with Yahoo Inc.
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FCC to propose higher broadband speeds
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission unveiled a plan on Tuesday that would require Internet providers to offer minimum home connection speeds by 2020, a proposal that some telecommunications companies panned as unrealistic.
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Google CEO declares mobile's moment has come
Google's Chief Executive Eric Schmidt declared the age of the mobile phone had come as volume, growth and new capabilities had come together in an unprecedented way.
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Google signs deal to buy social search company
Google Inc has acquired Aardvark, a San Francisco start-up whose service melds Internet search and social networking.
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Google to build superfast network to experiment
Google Inc said on Wednesday it would build a super high-speed broadband network for up to half a million people in order to experiment with the possibilities of a network running at 100 times current speeds.
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Google warns Chinese knock-off to stop using logo
Google Inc has sent a cease and desist letter to the operators of a Chinese search website whose logo bears a close resemblance to its own.
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Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader to hit stores
Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc. said on Monday that its Nook electronic reader would be available in most of its physical stores as of Wednesday, ahead of Valentine's Day, ending weeks of delays.
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