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UK inflation woes
UK consumers face rising inflation that analysts warn is increasingly likely to put upward...
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Consumers hit with high prices
The Consumer Price Index rose at twice the rate economists predicted.
Meanwhile, Wal-Mart...
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Mortgage rates dip, still high
U.S. mortgage rates fell last week, but rates remain high as lenders price in higher premiums for...
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Puma not counting on a 'gold rush'
Despite ties to the fastest man in the world, Usain 'Lightning' Bolt, Puma foresees slower sales as...
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Signs of U.S. economic strength
The U.S. economy grew at a stronger pace than originally thought, thanks in part to strong...
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Russian hunger for supermarkets
Russian consumers seem to have an unsatisfied appetite for large format supermarkets and...
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UK Consumer confidence in turmoil
Consumer confidence in Britain is at historically low levels as falling house prices and market...
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Tech sector penalized
As the economic crisis takes its toll, the technology sector is also under intense pressure. ...
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Discount supermarkets on the rise
Consumer research in the UK shows British shoppers are sacrificing their shopping experience to...
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Shoppers add to recession fears
Recession concerns were heightened Friday after separate reports showed consumer attitudes in a...
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Dow's best week since '04
Blue chips surged 4.75 percent in its strongest weekly gain in 4-1/2 years, but floundered on...
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Oil drop could help economy
A 50 percent drop in crude oil prices from their all time highs is likely to keep the U.S. economy...
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Dow up despite weak consumer data
Investors look for bargains despite pitiful U.S. consumer confidence data.
Meanwhile,...
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US home prices down 16% in August
Prices of US single family homes plunged more than 16 percent in August, according to a report by...
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Dow soars nearly 900 points
Investors go bargain hunting and are hopeful that the Federal Reserve will cuts interest rates...
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Consumers lead U.S. economic retreat
The biggest quarterly fall in consumer activity in 28 years pushed the U.S. economy closer to an...
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Japan tech firms in talks:Sources
Consumer electronics giant Panasonic is in talks with major shareholders of Sanyo Electric to buy...
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Price pressures under scrutiny
Two key reports on inflation are due with both the Producer Price Index and Consumer Price Index...
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Should GM file for bankruptcy?
The country's biggest automaker teeters on collapse, burning through $2b each month with consumer...
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Weak economy sets new records
U.S. consumer prices saw a record plunge in October and new home construction projects fell to...
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Wall St mixed;consumer gets lifeline
U.S. stocks ended mixed after new federal aid to get consumer lending back on its feet boosted...
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Big Asia deals stall
Two major takeover deals in the Asian region broke down, rattling the shares of targets Rio Tinto...
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Economy: little to be thankful for
The U.S. economy inspired little confidence as Americans prepared for their annual holiday of...
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Car sales head down hill
The latest figures add to the misery of the world's car makers as they face a battle for...
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Closing sale begins at Woolworths
Sales got under way at more than 800 branches of the ailing UK retailer Woolworths as thousands...
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GM rallies on bailout news
The U.S. automobile industry received additional bailout funds.
Consumers can expect an...
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Mixed messages from UK High Street
A string of British retailers ease fears of a collapse in consumer spending but concerns linger...
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Consumer wallets slam shut
14 Retail sales fell sharply in December as consumers stayed home, pushing sales lower by 2.7...
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Business Update: Factory slump
Japanese machinery orders fell to two-decade lows, a sign the financial crisis is stalling...
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Jobs announcement hits Apple shares
News that Apple boss Steve Jobs is taking a six-month leave of absence due to health concerns has...
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Business Update: Circuit City shuts
Consumer electronics chain Circuit City will begin closing over 500 remaining stores and letting...
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Consumers shun electronics
Consumer electronics makers see plummeting demand for their gadgets.
The consumer...
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Layoffs weigh on consumers
Consumers are feeling the pain of rising job cuts.
Layoffs are mounting by the day and...
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Asia losses mount
Asian manufacturers record a disappointing first wave of results as consumer demand dries...
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Business Update: Barbie's blues
Profits were sharply lower at toy company Mattel, maker of Barbie dolls, as recession-battered...
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Business
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US demands new chief for GM, Chrysler-Fiat marriage
Washington - The US is carrying out a major family shake-up in the...
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Apple's Snow Leopard Might Borrow Some Of The iPhone's Features
There are a lot of reports these days about Apple’s work on completing its new Mac OS X 10.6....
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Amazon Might Be Preparing The Release Of Its Kindle 2.0
As soon as Amazon announced its upcoming media event in New York City’s Morgan Library &...
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Dell Offers A Peak Of Its New Adamo Laptop
Dell’s presence at this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was...
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Microsoft Prepares Its Releases For 2009
Next week, the annual Consumer Electronics Show is scheduled to take place at the Venetian in Las...
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Output and spending drop in Japan amid global financial turmoil
Tokyo - Japan's industrial output dropped in October because of slow overseas demand for cars and...
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Sony Faces Battery Issues Again
During recent years, it was easy to notice a pattern in Sony’s product recall activities. Mainly,...
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Sony Is Still Not Done With Its Battery Recalls
Sony Corp. announced that several PC makers, including Toshiba and HP, will soon commence a...
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Financial Crisis Sends German Business Confidence Tumbling
Berlin - German business confidence plunged to its lowest level in more than five years in October,...
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Jobs' Apple Gets Greener With Each Passing Day
Tuesday’s presentation of the new MacBook models was received with great enthusiasm, even though...
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Credit Crisis Slams Auto Industry; GM, Ford Hard Hit
New York - The world automobile industry is being seriously hit by the current credit crisis, with...
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Analysis: Bail-out marks first step in long road back for US economy
Washington - While US President George W Bush signed a much- awaited 700-billion-dollar rescue...
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T-Mobile's And Google's Dream Is Finally Here
T-Mobile, HTC and Google finally introduced the result of
their collaboration, unveiling yesterday...
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Apple Announces Major iPhone USB Power Adapter Recall
Apple Inc. announced the recall of its USB power adapters on Friday, after revealing that they pose...
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US Stocks Rebound on AIG Hopes after Wild Trading Day
New York/Washington - US stocks made strong gains after a wild day of trading Tuesday, pulling back...
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73,000 Sony VAIO TZ Laptops Recalled due to Burn Hazard
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced on
Thursday that they are working with Sony...
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Gartner Reports: Apple Joins Dell, HP In Top 3 U.S. PC Vendors
The U.S. PC market brought a top three spot for Apple in
second quarter this year, reaching an...
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Palm Inc. Has Big Plans For Its Centro Phone
Palm Inc.’s officials announced yesterday the company’s
expectances on the sales of their Centro...
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FCC’s Dispute On Broadband Access
On Thursday, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission had
its widely anticipated hearing on...
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Intel Reports Strong Earnings, Announces Bold Outlook
Leading chipmaker Intel has announced revenue of $9.7 billion in the first quarter, up 9 percent...
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Microsoft to Acquire Mobile Software Maker Danger
Microsoft Corp. announced Monday it had agreed to buy cell-phone software developer Danger Inc. The...
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Yahoo Planning to Cut Hundreds of Jobs
Yahoo! Inc. is about to cut a high number of jobs in some
areas as it faces increasing competition...
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OPEC Agrees On Production Increase
Oil prices remained at a record high level despite OPEC’s decision of increasing the production...
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Health
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WHO rejects criticism it acted too slowly on swine flu
Geneva - The World Health Organization Friday rejected criticism that it was too slow in reacting...
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Fitness Balls Recalled
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission and EB Brands of Yonkers, N.Y. on Thursday announced...
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Six Manufacturers Announce Decision to Stop Selling Baby Bottles Containing Bisphenol A
Baby bottles containing bisphenol A, a controversial chemical widely used in plastics but...
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Addictive Painkiller Finally Withdrawn by the FDA
An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration voted 14 to 12 to recommend the withdrawal of...
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Bisphenol A Remains In Our Body Long After Intake
There has been a long debate on whether bisphenol A, an organic compound used in many food and...
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FDA Releases Guidelines for Genetically Engineered Animals
The Food and Drug Administration issued on Thursday “The Regulation of Genetically...
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CMS Unveils New Ratings For Nursing Homes
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled an updated Web site on...
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FDA Seeks to Change Consumer Advice on Fish
Since March 2004, the federal government has urged women of childbearing years, pregnant women,...
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Update: FDA Needs To Reconsider Its Tolerance Regarding BPA
The FDA was urged by a scientific panel to rethink a recent conclusion that a chemical used in baby...
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China’s Melanine Scandal
Melamine has once again become the focal point of a global food safety scare. The first reported...
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Update: Panel Calls FDA Ruling On BPA “Inadequate”
Bisphenol A (BPA), the synthetic hormone used in baby
bottles, toddler cups, water bottle and...
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Pharmaceutical Industry Bans Cough, Cold Drugs For Kids Under 4
In response to fears that over-the counter cough and cold
medicines could harm children rather...
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Are Your Cereals OK?
Consumer Reports has conducted its first nutritional analysis of cereals marketed to children and...
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Some Cereals Might Not Be As Healthy As Thought
Parents now have another thing to worry about. According to
Consumer Reports, some breakfast...
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Baby Bottle Chemical Bisphenol A Linked to Heart Risk, Diabetes
Following the FDA’s report on bishenol A
(BPA), the synthetic hormone used in baby bottles and...
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Drug Ads Have No Real Effect On Consumers
US and Canadian researchers found out that, even though
direct-to-consumer advertising of...
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Nestle Recalls Lean Pockets over Plastic Pieces
Nestle recalled 350,000 packages of the stuffed chicken pockets, dubbed Lean Pockets, because the...
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USDA to Tell Consumers Names of Retailers Involved in Meat Recalls
The U.S. Department of Agriculture comes to consumers’ aid with a new measure meant to help them...
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Time to Drop Your Shower Curtain. It’s Toxic for Your Health
If you were feeling safe behind your shower curtain, now it
is time to drop that feeling, as a new...
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Public Citizen Calls for Ban of Birth Control Patch
Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group, has launched a petition to ban the only transdermal...
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Analysis Warns on Deadly Risks Carried by Blood Substitutes
Researchers warned on Monday on the use of certain experimental hemoglobin-based blood substitutes,...
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PHC4 Executive Director, Marc Volavka, Stepping Down
Marc Volavka, the executive director of the Pennsylvania Health
Care Cost Containment Council...
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Natural Care Products? Sure, If We Include A Cancerous Ingredient
If you thought ‘natural’ and ‘organic’ products are the thing you need to turn to in a world full...
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Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix Recalled over Salmonella Concerns
The Quaker Oats Co. said Tuesday that it was recalling a
limited number of Aunt Jemima Pancake...
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Your Baby Is No Longer Safe; Nursery Products Can Be Fatal
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission warned Thursday
that parents are exposing their babies...
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Concerns over Toxicity in Plastic Baby Bottles
Plastic baby bottles have been shown to contain a dangerous chemical called bisphenol A, a...
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Public Citizen Wants Stricter Botox Warnings after 16 Deaths
Public Citizen Health Research Group has petitioned the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration to...
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Injury Report Finds ATVs Not Safe for Children
Children riding ATVs seem to be more exposed to potentially
disabling injuries, a study reports....
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Report: Many Stores Still Carry Toys Tainted with Lead
The Chicago Tribune has conducted testing on about 800 toys and other items sold in shops,...
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Halloween "Ugly Teeth" Toy Recall
What could be more frightening during Halloween than seeing your own child in danger because of...
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Technology
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Large-display laptops offer energy-saving alternatives
Laptops have made leaps and bounds in speed and memory capacity in recent years, threatening the...
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From Vista to XP and on to Windows 7
Neowin is reporting a date of April 10th for the release of Windows 7 RC, the next important...
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House Approves DTV Delay, Moves Transition Date To June 12
As the February 17 deadline approached, the uncertainty about the digital TV switch continued....
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Microsoft to Update Mobile Software Strategy
Recent reports have announced that Microsoft Corporation would update its mobile software...
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All’s Well When It Ends Well
Even though hundreds of thousands of people gathered on the National Mall in front of the Capitol...
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Lead Android Developer Becomes Coupons Inc. CTO
Google lost the leader of its Android engineering team this week, when Steve Horowitz was...
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FCC Chairman Kevin Martin Expresses Concern Over DTV Possible Delay
Following demands from President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team to postpone the...
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Rumor: Apple Shifting From Macworld To CES in 2010
This was Apple’s last year at Macworld, and according to their own words, such events...
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Apple To Attend At CES 2010?
As the Macworld and CES 2009 are on the verge to become history, various media reports are...
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Ford Introduces Enhanced SYNC 3.0 Car System
Automakers may not have the best perspectives at the moment, considering the economic...
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Microsoft Announces Public Beta Release of Windows 7
Yesterday, at the Consumer Electronics Show, Steve Ballmer, CEO at Microsoft, announced that...
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Apple - Good News And Bad News
Apple seems to have reached its climax: more than 300 million apps have been downloaded from...
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Getting the right computer for your PC game
The term gaming may sound like fun, but there's more work involved than you would imagine. The most...
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Sony Recalls 100,000 Notebook Batteries - HP, Dell, Toshiba Affected
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and three notebook producers that use Sony-manufactured...
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Choosing the right PC: Gaming and office have different needs
Berlin - Laptop sales may have caught up with PC sales in Germany, but that's by no means an...
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Major ISPs Make 'No User Tracking' Pledge
AT&T and Verizon, two of the largest U.S. internet
service providers, pledged yesterday at a...
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Apple Announces Major iPhone 3G USB Power Adapter Recall
Apple Inc. announced the recall of its USB power adapters on Friday, after revealing that they pose...
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Nokia Offers Exchange ActiveSync Services On Nokia S60 Platform
European device manufacturer Nokia announced it is expanding
its agreement with Microsoft,...
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Update: Total Recall 4: Sony Struck By Major VAIO Recall
Sony VAIO owners should be on high alert, as the electronics
maker announced significant product...
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Another Gadget Overheating Issue: Sony Recalls 440,000 Vaios
Sony issued a recall for some of its VAIO VGN-TZ100, VGN-TZ200, VGN-TZ300, and VGN-TZ2000 series of...
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iPod Nano Fiery Incident Reported In Japan
Two iPod nano owners in Japan have had a “fiery” experience
with their gadgets, Japan officials...
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Verdiem's New PC Application Is Good For The Environment
Verdiem, a company focused on offering an enterprise power
management software, recently released...
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The FCC Against Discriminatory Carriage of Data
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is likely to
vote against Cable giant Comcast Corp. on...
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Google Used to Define Community's Obscenity Standards
The Supreme Court's decision in Miller v. California has brought about several criteria which...
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Phone Carriers Want Smaller Cancelation Fees, But There’s A Catch
Consumer advocates expressed
their disagreement with a wireless industry proposal that has been...
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Apple To Refund Up To $79 Per Faulty iPod or Notebook Battery
Canadian residents will benefit
from a $45 credit for iPods purchased before June 24, 2004,...
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Computer Customer Support? Apple Does It Best!
Satisfied with customer support
for your computer? According to an annual tech-support survey...
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AT&T Brings Mobile TV Service on LG Vu and Samsung Access
Starting May 4, AT&T’s
Mobile TV service will start offering customers television shows live...
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Blu Ray Has Won The Format War, But…
According to a recent study released by ABI Research, Blu-ray
format needs another 12 to 18 months...
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FCC Fines Retailers over Analog TVs
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued fines worth $6 million to 11 retail...
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