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Review: Google's first phone smart, but needs work
Associated PressGiven Google Inc.'s reputation as a trend setter on the Web, I expected great things from its first mobile phone _ especially since it is emerging more than a year after Apple Inc. launched the enormously popular iPhone. And while it's far from perfect,...Tags: Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., iPhone, Apple Inc., AT&T Corp.
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Holiday Shopping Notebook: Retailers push interest-free financing to drum up big-ticket sales
Retailers push interest free financing NEW YORK (AP)— Can't afford that $1,200 flat-panel TV for the holidays? Major sellers of big-ticket items are hoping to get consumers, faced with tightening credit and other financial worries, to splurge with...Tags: Restoration Hardware Incorporated, Game Playing, Family, Toys, Circuit City Stores Incorporated
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Nokia sees 3Q profit fall 30 pct, sales drop 5 percent, loses market share
Associated Press WriterHELSINKI, Finland (AP) _ Nokia Corp., the world's largest cell phone maker, lost market share in the third quarter as profits dropped 30 percent because of falling sales and lower prices on the handsets that did sell. Even so, Nokia said Thursday it...Tags: Telecommunication Service, Cell Phones, Corporate Performance, iPhone, Sales
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Verizon and AT&T provide McCains with free cell towers
Early last year, just as her husband launched his presidential bid, Cindy McCain decided to resolve an old problem - the lack of cellular telephone coverage on her remote 15-acre ranch near Sedona, Ariz. By the time Sen. John McCain's presidential bid...Tags: Telecommunication Service, Verizon Wireless, Verizon Communications, Upper House, National Government
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Google G1: A real iPhone challenger
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersGoogle can search out just about anything on the Internet, but can it call to say you'll be late for dinner? Starting next week, it can. The G1, the first cellphone equipped with Google Inc.'s mobile Android software, will go on sale Wednesday at T-...Tags: Google Inc., Heidi Klum, Amazon.com Inc., iPhone, Apple Inc.
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Steelers, Jets not KYW-3's final call
Of The Morning CallPittsburgh Steelers fans and New York Jets fans in the Lehigh Valley sometimes are disappointed when their favorite team's games are not broadcast in the Valley. Fans should blame the feds -- sort of. Service Electric and RCN cable companies, which...Tags: Peyton Manning, New York Jets, Brett Favre, Baltimore Ravens, Satellite and Cable Service
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Bill Kurtis family's 'Little House' museum sued in trademark case
Tribune media columnistThere's a little lawsuit on the West Coast involving the non-profit Little House on the Prairie museum that sits on the Kansas homestead where author Laura Ingalls Wilder briefly lived and now owned by Chicago journalist Bill Kurtis and his sister....Tags: Michael Landon, Kansas, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Los Angeles, Melissa Gilbert
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'Google phone' comes calling
Sentinel ColumnistThis year's second-most anticipated cell phone, the T-Mobile G1, is significant not because it's elegant or stylish like the most anticipated phone, the iPhone 3G, but because of what's inside. It's the first phone with Android, an open-source mobile...Tags: Google Inc., iPhone, Networking, Microsoft Corp., New Products
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Playwright Daniel Beaty Brings 'Resurrection' To Hartford Stage
The Hartford CourantSometimes a cold statistic can turn into a hot play. Daniel Beaty was performing his Obie Award-winning solo show, "Emergency," in Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage last year when he read a report, "The State of Black America," published by the Urban...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Television, Theater, Music, Broadway
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T appoints executive to spread wireless connectivity beyond cell phones
NEW YORK (AP) _ Latching on to a trend in the wireless industry, AT&T Inc. said Wednesday it has started an initiative to encourage manufacturers to create more non-phone gadgets that connect to its wireless network. The country's largest wireless...Tags: Verizon Wireless, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Amazon.com Inc., iPhone, Apple Inc.
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Veteran NYSE trader takes fluctuations in stride
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJust after 9 a.m. Wednesday, the glass doors on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange burst open, and the symphony begins. "How's Cisco?" a trader shouts. "What are you saying on Goldman?" yells another. "Let's go! Let's go!" Feet shuffle,...Tags: Citigroup Incorporated, Financial Markets, Electronics, Casino and Gambling, Metal and Mineral
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Washington agriculture inspectors using computers to speed process and reduce workload
Associated Press WriterYAKIMA, Wash. (AP) _ Mark Jolley used to carry armloads of reference manuals and handbooks to the central Washington warehouses where he inspects apples and pears to ensure their quality for the export market. Now, he's armed with just a tablet computer....Tags: Agricultural Research and Technology, Shipping Service, Oregon, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Visalia
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