January 7, 2009 - Industry News
Best Buy offers used iPhones at lower price
Retailer Best Buy Co, seeking new ways to appeal to cost-conscious shoppers, said on Tuesday it is selling refurbished versions of Apple ...
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January 7, 2009 - Industry News
Macworld fizzles with no Jobs or Apple surprises
Apple Inc announced plans to drop copy protection from songs sold over the Internet and debuted a slim, big-screen laptop, but with no ...
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January 6, 2009 - Industry News
Apple's Jobs reassures investors about his health
Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs sought to soothe investor concerns about his health on Monday, saying his weight loss was caused by a ...
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January 5, 2009 - Industry News
Factories mired in worst slump in 28 years
U.S. factory activity fell to a 28-year low in December as the deepening year-old recession hammered the manufacturing sector, producing a ...
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January 5, 2009 - Industry News
Nokia CEO to favor profit over sales targets
Nokia will focus on profit development amid a falling cell phone market in which many competitors are cutting prices, Chief Executive Olli- ...
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December 30, 2008 - Industry News
Dow and Rohm shares fall on concern over deal
Shares of Dow Chemical and Rohm & Haas plunged by more than 20 percent on Monday, after Kuwait scrapped a $17.4 billion joint venture with ...
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December 29, 2008 - Technology News
MP3 player guides rescuers to lost tourists
The light from an MP3 player saved two lost tourists from a chilly night stuck out in the snowy Swiss mountains, rescue authorities said ...
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December 18, 2008 - Industry News
Auto rescue being worked on quickly: Paulson
A government bailout for automakers was being assembled as quickly and carefully as possible, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on ...
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December 17, 2008 - Industry News
Mobile phone market to shrink in 2009
Mobile phone sales will shrink next year at their fastest pace ever as consumers cut spending, a Reuters poll showed, with analysts ...
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December 12, 2008 - Technology News
Atari blasts back from the past with new game plan
For many gamers Atari is a blast from the past or just a logo on retro T-shirts but the company that dates back 36 years is looking to reclaim ...
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December 10, 2008 - Top Story News
Electronics industry axes jobs, sees bleak Christmas
Sony Corp axed thousands of jobs on Tuesday and bearish comments from Samsung and Texas Instruments added to the gloom in the technology ...
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December 10, 2008 - Technology News
Mobile phone chip to counter radiation unveiled
Belgian health products distributor Omega Pharma will launch a chip it claims can counter potentially damaging radiation from mobile phones ...
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December 10, 2008 - Technology News
Car technology race still wide open: Japan execs
As Detroit's Big Three automakers flirt with collapse, punished for years of over-dependence on gas-guzzlers, the future of the motor ...
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December 5, 2008 - Industry News
Consumer electronics group cuts 4th-quarter view
The Consumer Electronics Association lowered its fourth-quarter industry growth forecast on Thursday as consumer spending weakened and steep ...
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December 4, 2008 - Industry News
Philips says won't meet targets, shares slip
Philips Electronics said it did not expect to meet its mid-term profit target as market conditions for its Consumer Lifestyle and parts of ...
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November 28, 2008 - Industry News
Nokia says shipping touch-screen phone
Nokia Oyj has started deliveries of its first touch-screen phone, the 5800, the mobile phone maker's answer to Apple Inc's iPhone ...
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November 21, 2008 - Industry News
Jobs data miserable, regional factories slump
The number of American workers on the unemployment rolls surged to the highest in a quarter century and a regional manufacturing gauge ...
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November 20, 2008 - Top Story News
Don't junk the US auto industry
Mr. Ludwig, a former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, is founder and CEO of consulting firm Promontory Financial Group. Any opinions are his ...
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November 12, 2008 - Technology News
Google phone costs $144 in materials: iSuppli
The first phone to be built on Google's Android operating system, which T-Mobile is selling for $179 in the United States, costs $144 for the ...
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November 11, 2008 - Industry News
Circuit City files for bankruptcy protection
Circuit City Stores Inc, the No. 2 U.S. consumer electronics retailer, filed for bankruptcy on Monday just weeks before the start of the ...
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November 7, 2008 - Industry News
Apple, RIM win smartphone market share from Nokia
Surging demand for the latest iPhone and Blackberry models helped Apple Inc and Research In Motion to win larger shares of the smartphone ...
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November 4, 2008 - Technology News
Yahoo, Google revise deal in hopes of approval
Internet search leaders Yahoo and Google have given the Justice Department a revised version of their search advertising partnership ...
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November 3, 2008 - Industry News
Global NAND flash sales to fall 2008-2009 -iSuppli
Global sales of NAND flash memory chips, used in consumer electronics from digital cameras to mobile phones, are expected to decline this ...
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October 30, 2008 - Industry News
Motorola plans job cuts, focus on Google software
Motorola Inc's co-chief executive, Sanjay Jha, plans to make more job cuts and simplify how it makes devices, the Wall Street Journal ...
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October 24, 2008 - Top Story News
Outlook bleak for contract electronics makers
Contract electronics manufacturers Flextronics and Benchmark Electronics Inc are expected to offer gloomy outlooks for the December quarter ...
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