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  • Barnes & Noble says Nook shipments will be delayed Posted 3 hours, 40 minutes ago

    The Barnes & Noble nook, a Wireless eBook Reader, is seen during a news conference in New York SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc said on Friday it had sold out of its first allotment of newly launched Nook electronic readers due to high demand and new shipments will not arrive in time for the holidays. "While we increased production based on the high consumer interest, we've ... More

  • Gameloft says it, others reining in Android plans Posted 11 hours, 41 minutes ago

    Singapore Telecommunications representative displays the HTC Dream phone during a preview in Singapo BARCELONA (Reuters) - French mobile phone games company Gameloft said it and other software developers were cutting back investment in developing games and other applications for Google's Android platform. Android has won attention in the mobile industry lately, with Motorola and Sony Ericsson choosing it for their new top models ... More

  • Sony to launch online entertainment service in 2010 Posted 13 hours, 43 minutes ago

    TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp said on Friday that its planned entertainment content distribution service for network-compatible TVs and other devices will be launched next year. Sony plans to launch a new online service to distribute movies, music, books and other content to network-capable TVs, Blu-ray players, ebooks and others in ... More

  • Chinese cyber-spying seen growing against U.S. Posted 20 hours, 26 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's government appears increasingly to be piercing U.S. government and defense industry computer networks to gather useful data for its military, a congressional advisory panel said on Thursday. "A large body of both circumstantial and forensic evidence strongly indicates Chinese state involvement in such activities," the ... More

  • Smartphone growth to continue strong in 2010 Posted 20 hours, 45 minutes ago

    BARCELONA (Reuters) - The wireless chip industry expects smartphone market surge to continue, with British microchip designer ARM saying growth would likely even accelerate further next year. The smartphone market slowed drastically in the September quarter, but chip makers -- whose products are sold weeks, if not months, before phones are sold ... More

  • AOL shows worst not over for media job cuts Posted 20 hours, 53 minutes ago

    News of AOL cutting 2,500 jobs is seen on an electronic news ticker in New York LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - If AOL's announcement on Thursday of another 2,500 job cuts is anything to go by, the painful layoffs that have ravaged the media industry over the past year are nowhere near over. Even though U.S. media conglomerates have largely reported stronger-than-expected quarterly earnings and ... More

  • Google says PC will start in seven seconds or less Posted 1 day, 2 hours ago

    An employee rides her bike past a logo next to the main entrance of the Google building in Zurich MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for PCs that do their work on the Web. Google gave the first ... More

  • Microsoft says Windows 7 sales strong Posted 1 day, 2 hours ago

    A customer holds a version of the new Windows 7 during the grand opening of Microsoft's first retail LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday sales of Windows 7 were running at twice the level of any previous version of its operating system. Windows 7, launched a month ago, has "already sold twice as many units" than any previous version in a comparable ... More

  • Wikipedia, iPhone among decade's top 10 Internet moments Posted 1 day, 4 hours ago

    An Apple iPhone 3GS and an Apple Macbook Pro are shown at the Apple retail store in San Francisco NEW YORK (Reuters) - The launch of Wikipedia, emergence of the iPhone and the election of U.S. President Barack Obama were among the 10 most influential moments on the Internet in the past decade, according to the annual Webby awards. Other events singled out by the New York-based International Academy ... More

  • Nokia sees corporate interest for netbook Posted 1 day, 6 hours ago

    Nokia's Booklet 3G netbook computer is seen at Nokia corporate headquarters in Helsinki HELSINKI (Reuters) - Top cell phone maker Nokia has seen growing interest among companies for its first netbook or mini-laptop, a company executive said on Thursday. "When we launched the Booklet 3G ... we thought it to be primarily a consumer device, but after the launch a big, growing interest is coming ... More