LONDON (Reuters) - The British government, including the Ministry of defense (MoD), will be able to share or trade some of the most valuable radio spectrum in the country under new guidelines being drawn up by the communications regulator.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - You may know actor Keith David for starring opposite Kurt Russell in the 1982 horror film ‘The Thing’, or for his Tony Award-winning role in the 1992 production of ‘Jelly’s Last Jam’.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt had less than half its Internet capacity available on Thursday because of breaks in two undersea cables that have also affected the Gulf region and south Asia.
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LONDON (Reuters) - They may be a whiz with the computer and brimming with confidence, but would you give “Generation Y” a job if you had to suffer their pushy parents and fairweather notions of loyalty?
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp said on Thursday that it might have to write off all of the $30.7 billion goodwill value from its purchase of Nextel Communications and smaller deals as it struggles with customer losses.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Siemens AG has extended its amnesty offer to employees in connection with a probe into a corruption scandal until the end of February, the company said on Thursday.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The head of telecom equipment maker Ericsson’s Redback Networks unit is leaving his executive position to become vice chairman of the unit, Redback’s chairman said on Thursday.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc’s top three executives had pledged to work together for 20 years in a pact they made shortly before the company’s initial public offering in August 2004, Fortune magazine has reported.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bidder on Thursday offered $4.71 billion for a key slice of wireless airwaves being sold by the government, triggering a condition that the spectrum be accessible to any device or software application.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Clearwire Corp and Sprint Nextel Corp have made progress on terms for a roaming deal for their high-speed wireless networks based on WiMax technology, Clearwire’s Chief Executive said on Wednesday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Thriller writer Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher novels, hit on the idea for his next novel while surfing the Internet and reading about suicide bombers.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Size matters in pornography, except when it comes to tiny mobile phone screens, the next frontier for erotica.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - A breakdown in an international undersea cable network disrupted Internet links to Egypt, India and Gulf Arab countries on Wednesday, and Egypt said it could take several days for its services to return to normal.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - The United States, Sweden and Japan topped a new ranking that measures how well countries use telecommunications technologies — networks, cell phones and computers — to boost their social and economic prosperity.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell said on Wednesday it would close all of its 140 U.S. kiosks, a concept it launched in 2002 to showcase computers, as it expands sales of PCs in retail stores.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - GSN is launching “Bingo America,” a new 40-episode half-hour interactive game show series to be hosted by Patrick Duffy.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - MySpace, the world’s largest online social network, will launch its program to court outside software developers in February in a bid to widen the gap against rival Facebook.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York lawmakers proposed legislation on Tuesday that would provide new protection from convicted sex offenders hanging out on social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bidding remained stalled Tuesday on a key piece of spectrum in the government’s wireless airwaves auction, prompting concern regulators will have to modify rules requiring some of it be shared with public safety agencies.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Big Internet stocks have fallen 25 percent to 40 percent in the last quarter and haven’t looked cheaper in years. But despite expected strong year-end results, many investors are likely to shy away in the short run.
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CANNES, France (Hollywood Reporter) - Paul McGuinness, longtime manager of rock band U2, has called on Internet service providers to immediately introduce disconnection policies to end illegal music downloads and urged governments to make sure they do.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - More than a quarter of people who bought Apple Inc’s iPhone are using them on wireless networks other than AT&T’s, the exclusive iPhone carrier in the U.S., a “stunning” number that will pressure the company’s business model, an analyst said on Monday.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union countries can refuse to disclose names of file sharers on the Internet in civil cases, the EU’s top court said on Tuesday in a blow to copyright holders trying to fight digital piracy.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese consumer electronics makers Victor Company of Japan Ltd (JVC) and Funai Electric Co Ltd will jointly develop and supply LCD television sets, an industry source said on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dr. Howard Stark’s office is quiet. Very quiet. No patients sit in his waiting room. No receptionist answers the telephone. Stark does not have a receptionist.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online auction leader eBay Inc on Tuesday introduced price changes and tighter sales standards in a bid to retain quality sellers, improve customer service and revive flagging growth.
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TEL AVIV (Reuters) - John Chambers, chief executive of network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc , said on Tuesday service providers will continue to upgrade and build out their networks for a decade.
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You have been in a car accident, are injured, and you need an attorney. However, how do you go about finding a Boston personal injury lawyer when you need one? The answer is to search the Internet as well as ask friends and relatives for referrals. It is easy to find a long list of every Boston car accident attorney there is. However, it is more difficult to find one that comes highly recommended over the Internet. The best way to go about finding the right Boston car accident lawyer for you is to simply ask for references. People who were really happy with their lawyer will share his name and number with you and others who have had bad experiences will share that info as well. This is a good way to start looking for a lawyer. But, you also want to find one that has experience in the field you are looking. So, do a little research and start calling lawyers. Then, simply ask if they have had experience with the type of accident you had. The more questions you ask the easier it will be t find the right lawyer for you.
As you are writing down your long list of things to do you are probably thinking in the back of your head about what types of personalized bridesmaids gifts are out there and that would be perfect to say “thank you” to your bridesmaids on your special day. There are many different things that you could buy for your bridesmaids and then personalize them. So, don’t think that you must buy special unique personalized gifts that are advertised as such. Instead, you can shop around in all types of stores and when you see a particular item you like then you can simply buy it and later have it personalized.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A Silicon Valley start-up that lets software programmers embed phone-like voice features in everything from Web sites to computers, to phones themselves, unveiled its first product for consumers on Monday.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Transistor radios tinier than a grain of sand, made using nanotechnology, can not only tune in to the traffic report, but may end up outperforming current silicon-based electronics, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York state employee who had access to government-owned archives has been arrested on suspicion of stealing hundreds of historic documents, many of which he sold on eBay, authorities said on Monday.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson said it had signed deals with 10 music labels to add content to its PlayNow service, which lets users download music via their mobile phones.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc said on Sunday it will begin an international roll-out this year of its digital music store that offers songs without copy-protection technology known as digital rights management.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion has leapt into the retail consumer market with products such as its pink BlackBerry Pearl, a candy bar-shaped e-mail phone stuffed with multimedia goodies, exposing itself to shoppers’ fickle tastes and competition from Apple’s iPhone.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece signed an agreement with the world’s biggest software company, Microsoft , on Monday to establish IT development centers in an effort to boost the country’s competitiveness.
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CANNES, France (Reuters) - Away from the headlines of job losses, grumbling artists and falling global sales, the music industry is trying new business models to boost digital sales and offset the decline in CDs.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden plans this week to charge the people running Pirate Bay, one of the world’s most visited Web sites, with being accessories in breaking copyright law.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Buyers save billions of dollars each year bidding on eBay auctions, according to a new study that quantifies the benefits online consumers enjoy over and above what is derived by sellers, or eBay itself.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion has leapt into the retail consumer market with products such as its pink BlackBerry Pearl, a candybar-shaped e-mail phone stuffed with multimedia goodies, exposing itself to shoppers’ fickle tastes and competition from Apple Inc’s iPhone.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc said on Sunday it will begin an international roll-out this year of its digital music store that offers songs without copy-protection technology known as digital rights management.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Qtrax, a new legal online file-sharing service that allows fans to download songs for free, said on Sunday it will launch with 25 million to 30 million copyrighted tracks with backing from major labels.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Web search engine giant Google Inc is interested to set up operations in Malaysia, citing the country’s technology infrastructure and strategic location, newspapers reported on Sunday.
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COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) - German telecoms operator Deutsche Telekom said on Saturday it had signed up 70,000 iPhone customers in the 11 weeks since November 9, 2007.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Police in Scotland have set up a Web site to allow the public to meet their newest, and cutest, recruit as he learns how to sniff out criminals.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The bidding topped $3.7 billion on the second day of the Federal Communications Commission’s auction of government-owned airwaves, but there were no new suitors Friday for a closely watched block of spectrum to be shared with public safety agencies.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. intelligence satellite has lost power and could fall to Earth sometime in February or March, a government official said on Saturday.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese consumer electronics maker Sanyo Electric Co Ltd plans to dissolve its television development joint venture with Taiwan’s Quanta Computer Inc , the Nikkei business daily said on Saturday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - French media conglomerate Vivendi is still trying to carve out an entry into Germany’s largest pay-tv broadcaster Premiere , according to a European television industry newsletter, New Media Markets.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police said on Friday they had arrested a man suspected of selling corporate secrets from France’s Dassault Group, including data on weapons systems.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A record number of readers visited U.S. online newspaper sites last year, according to figures released on Thursday, confirming the Web as one of the few bright spots for the struggling newspaper industry.
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DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - The arrival of a truly mobile Web, offering a new generation of location-based advertising, is set to unleash a “huge revolution”, Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Friday.
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft signaled confidence to a rattled stock market by raising its full-year earnings outlook above Wall Street targets and reporting a 79 percent rise in quarterly profit on Thursday.
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