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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Thieves shot to death five Arkansas family members and burned their bodies for the meager bounty of a set of wheel rims and some flat-screen televisions, court documents said Friday.

A West Pullman man and two South Side brothers have been charged with stealing cash and property at gunpoint from victims thinking they were meeting to buy televisions and other electronics advertised on Craigslist.

Ontario will consider new standards for flat screen TVs. Ontario will consider revising its standards for flat-screen televisions now that California has moved to ban power-hungry sets from its store shelves, Energy Minister Gerry Phillips said Thursday.

NOKIA, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, said on Friday it would shed about 330 jobs in Finland and Denmark as part of a streamlining of its research and development operations.

Shoppers face a dizzying array of offers of help in the form of new Web sites, services and mobile phone applications as they set out for their holiday shopping this year.

Nov. 18 -- Steve Haber, president of Sony Electronics Inc. digital reading unit, talks with Bloomberg's Mark Crumpton and Julie Hyman about the electronic-reader market.

Canadian retailers are getting ready for the holiday season with rock-bottom prices and major promotional campaigns in hopes that shoppers will open their wallets and seize the opportunity to save.

Senator Dianne Feinstein is encouraging the Obama administration to adopt new energy efficiency standards for televisions, similar to those just approved in her home state of California.

Sony Corp aims to earn a 5 per cent operating profit margin in three years by turning its struggling LCD TV and game operations profitable next year and launching 3D TVs and lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.

Country music helped ABC to its best ratings week in more than a year. The network, which narrowly lost to CBS for the distinction of America's most popular TV network last week, aired the Country Music Association awards to 17.2 million people, according to the Nielsen Co.

The world's largest mobile phone service provider by subscribers is still in talks with Apple about offering the iPhone in China even though rival China Unicom started selling the handsets there last month.

Is Google really thinking about making a substantial change to its business model by releasing the fabled Gphone? Would Google really consider derailing Droid momentum with its own phone? TechCrunch sparked the latest round of Gphone rumors Wednesday, reporting that its sources indicate Google is working on releasing a Google-branded Android phone ...

Everyone is looking for deals this holiday season, hoping to get a lot of bang for their buck - and when it comes to flat screen televisions, now is the time to buy.

The official kickoff for the holiday shopping season is more than a week away. But the nation's retailers, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc., are already starting to let shoppers know about their fat discounts in hopes of attracting big crowds.

Generally speaking, having something " ruggedized " ruins the aesthetic appeal. You trade style for function, and that's been perfectly acceptable until today.

FILE - In a Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009 photo, Doug Pongrazc checks out a large screen television while... FILE - In a Thursday, Jan.

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Qualcomm, the world's biggest chip maker, said on Tuesday that it expects to sell its TD-SCDMA chips in mainland China within the next year.

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has said that rumours concerning a new HD-capable Wii are missing the bigger picture.

Thousands of mobile phone customers' personal details have been stolen and sold on to rival firms, it has been claimed.