Archive for January 15th, 2009

Samsung reorganizes key businesses to fight slump (AP)

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AP – Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday it will consolidate four key businesses — semiconductors, liquid crystal displays, mobile phones and televisions — into two divisions as the company deals with the slowing global economy.

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs Takes Medical Leave

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Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs said today he is taking a medical leave of absence until the end of June. Jobs, 53, said in a letter last week that he would remain at Apple‘s helm despite a treatable hormone deficiency, and said he had already begun the treatment for the problem. But in an [...]

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Motorola to Cut 4,000 Additional Jobs

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Motorola will slash an additional 4,000 jobs, or an estimated 6 percent of its workforce, as part of a stepped-up cost-saving move to remain competitive in a slumping global economy. Of the latest job cuts, 3,000 will be in the Mobile Devices business and 1,000 positions in corporate functions and other business units. The move [...]

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Carphone Warehouse reports 13 pct rise in revenue (AP)

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AP – Carphone Warehouse Group PLC, Europe’s largest mobile phone retailer, warned Thursday that challenging times lay ahead even as it reported a 13 percent increase in retail revenues to 1 billion pounds ($1.5 billion) in the last three months of December.

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How to copy photos from a PC to an Apple iPhone or iPod

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Although Apple iTunes is a popular and easy-to-use application, it has its restrictions. If you want complete freedom for copying your photos and videos between your PC and iPhone or iPod, you need some extra tools. Check out our guide on how to copy images from your PC to the iPhone (and the other way [...]

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Access your home hard drive remotely from a PC or iPhone

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External hard drives that are easy to plug in to a USB port are handy for backing up data from home PC and for storing large files like movies and music. But the more we document our lives as digital memories in photographs, videos, MP3 tracks, and other files, the more we miss them while [...]

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10 megapixel camera lets you upload photos to the Internet by a touch on the screen

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There are enough megapixels for all of us in modern digital cameras. Now, making cameras even easier to use and copying pictures and photos from the camera to a home PC and to the Internet are getting plenty of attention. The small Sony Cybershot DSC-G3 camera is one of the first products that features both [...]

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