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25 min ago | Reuters

Sony to assess spin-off plan; cuts targets for cameras, smartphones

Sony Corp cut its sales targets for digital cameras, smartphones and tablets by 13-17 percent for the year to end-March 2015, but said there were "encouraging" signs of a revival in its electronics business.

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Related Topix: Cameras, Digital Cameras

4 hrs ago | The Arizona Republic

Cuba lifts ban on energy-hogging appliances

Cuba has authorized individual imports of appliances such as air conditioners, refrigerators and microwave ovens, lifting a ban imposed in 2005 amid a wave of energy shortages and blackouts.

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Related Topix: Cuba, World News, Central America, TV, Small Business, Personal Finance, Raul Castro, Fidel Castro

5 hrs ago | Patch.com

Police Blotter: Cell Phone, Jewelry Taken from Purse Left Unattended

Stealing The victim paid for home repairs at Penscola Court and the subject never did the work.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, O'Fallon, MO

9 hrs ago | Science Library Pad

Jodia Arias: Texts to Death

With all the competition among cell phone providers to be yours, maybe you should consider how long they will keep your text messages on their servers.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, T-Mobile

Tue May 21, 2013

Insider Monkey

Pandora Media Inc (P): The Data You Need To See

On Thursday, Pandora Media Inc will release its latest quarterly results. The key to making smart investment decisions on stocks reporting earnings is to anticipate how they'll do before they announce results, leaving you fully prepared to respond quickly to whatever inevitable surprises arise.

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Related Topix: Cable & Satellite, Financial Markets, Media, Radio, Siri, Google, Startups

Externals

How the Media Affects Kids

We're living in an increasingly technological age. And the fact of the matter is that this technological proclivity is ubiquitous to all age groups.

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Related Topix: Kids, Family, TV

P&T Community

iPhone App Helps Diagnose Heart Attacks

An experimental iPhone application can transmit diagnostic heart images faster and more reliably than emailing photo images, according to a study presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2013.

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Related Topix: Heart Attack, Health, Medicine, Cell Phones

Textually.org

Palestinian prisoners used forbidden mobile phones to plot terror attacks

A recent trial before the Samaria Military Court revealed a startling connection between Palestinians and the employee of at least one Israeli cell phone company - a connection that resulted in Palestinian prisoners obtaining working cell phones, even though they are forbidden to have them.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Cellphones

KREM-TV Spokane

How you can donate to OK tornado relief funds

Relief agencies immediately went into action Monday to help those affected by the deadly tornado which swept through Moore, Oklahoma.

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Related Topix: Moore, OK, Cell Phones, Cellphones, Spokane, WA

Bangkok Post

NBTC slashes number switching fee

The cost of switching mobile networks and keeping the same phone number - known as mobile number portability - will be cut by 70 baht to 29 baht per transaction from July 1 in a move by the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission to boost competition in the mobile market.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Cellphones

Fox News

Softbank Plans 400 Billion Retail Bond Issuance

Softbank Corp. is planning yet another record-breaking sale of retail bonds to Japanese investors, seeking to raise around Y400 billion, The Nikkei reported in its Tuesday morning edition.

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Related Topix: SoftBank, Financial Services, Investment Services, Financial Markets, Sprint Nextel, Telecom, IT Services, Cell Phones, Cellphones, Business News

Time

Syria's Rebels Aren't Winning the War: Anatomy of a Battle

Syrian army soldiers inspect a house in the village of Western Dumayna, near the rebel-held city of Qusayr, Syria, on May 13, 2013.

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Related Topix: Two Way Radio

Mon May 20, 2013

Hollywood Reporter

TiVo Loses Less Money Than Predicted

The company also added 277,000 subscribers through its worldwide partnerships with multisystems operators, primarily Virgin Media.

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Related Topix: Digital Video Recorders, Startups, TiVo, Cable & Satellite, Telecom, NTL Incorporated, Business News

Gizmag

Samsung to launch 55 and 65 inch 4K LEDs in June

Samsung has announced that 55- and 65-inch UHD TVs are to join its 85-inch 4K LED model in June Samsung first unveiled its 4K UHD television line in the form of a massive 85-inch model at CES this year, but the company did promise that it would expand to both larger and smaller models.

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Related Topix: TV, Gadgets

BBC News

Ex-Nokia team makes rival smartphone

A company made up of former Nokia employees has shown off Jolla, a new smartphone with a custom operating system known as Sailfish.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Cellphones

Myrtle Beach Online

Watch out for unauthorized charges on cellphone bills

Take a line-by-line look at your cellphone bill - all dozen or so pages. See a $9.99 charge for horoscopes, flirting tips or some such thing that you didn't request? Once only a big problem with landline telephones, cramming - the placement of unauthorized charges on phone bills by outsiders - is gaining a foothold in the mobile-phone marketplace, ... (more)

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Related Topix: Cellphones, Cell Phones, Wireless, Emerging Technology, Business News

WLNE-TV Providence

Police look for missing URI student

His mother received a text message from Royer at 6 p.m. on Thursday saying he overslept and had a late state.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Allentown, PA

This is Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire hacker facing jail after cyber gang targeted global corporations

Computer systems belonging to the CIA, the Pentagon and the NHS were hacked by a gang of cyber criminals which included a hacker from Lincolnshire.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Computer Security, Twitter, Greater London County, England, United Kingdom, Electronics, Sony

Sun May 19, 2013

CE News

IT tools

The last month was a hard one for me. Besides a bout with incredibly debilitating kidney stones, I also tried to switch cell phones something nearly as stressful as switching jobs, moving, or getting divorced, especially for someone like me who is so completely dependent on this tool.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Cellphones, Inventions, Science / Technology, iPhone

Daily Camera

Boulder's high-end audio manufacturers, retailers seeing resurgence

Matt Alterman,? Crescendo Fine Audio co-founder, shows off a VPI Scout 1.1 uni-pivot tone arm record player at his store in Boulder.

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Related Topix: Boulder, CO, Consumer Electronics Association, Headphones, Boulder County, CO, TV