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Sprint:
Sprint Nextel Reports Fourth-Quarter Subscriber Results, Announces Actions to Streamline Operations — Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) today reported wireless subscriber results for the fourth quarter of 2007, announced initial plans to streamline its business as part of an ongoing review …
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Sprint to cut 4,000 jobs — Sprint Nextel , the No. 3 U.S. mobile service, said on Friday it will cut about 4,000 jobs and close about 8 percent of its stores, predicting further pressure on its ability to attract subscribers and turn a profit in 2008. — Sprint shares fell 7 percent …
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Electronista:
Sprint slashes 4,000 jobs, shutters stores — Sprint will cut about 4,000 jobs from its workforce and close 125 of its dedicated retail stores, the cellular carrier announced today. The move is expected to save the company between $700 million and $800 million a year and reflects …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Time Warner: Download Too Much and You Might Pay $30 a Movie — Let's say you buy a new Apple TV because you want to rent high-definition movies. And say you are about to move to Beaumont, Tex. If so, you might wind up paying Time Warner Cable as much as $30 when you download a movie using its high-speed Internet service.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
China Close To Becoming World's Largest Internet Market By Users — New statistics released by the Chinese Government show that China is due to surpass the United States as the nation with the most internet users in the coming months. — The state-owned China Internet Network Information Center …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Eee PC with 9-inch touchscreen in the works? — Details of future generation Eee PCs from ASUS have been trickling out even before the first generation shipped. Now that sewing circle of Taiwanese component makers have whispered a few secrets in the direction of DigiTimes.
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Deal Of the Day: CNN Pays $750,000 For Web Address — CNN just made self-styled “Domain King” Rick Schwartz a happy man. The network paid $750,000 to acquire urls ireport.com and i-report.com from Schwartz, who told SAI he paid “$70 or $100” to register the domains back in 1997.
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Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Semantic Wave 2008 - Free Summary Report for RWW Readers — Project10X has just released a 400-page study of semantic technologies and their market impact, entitled Semantic Wave 2008: Industry Roadmap to Web 3.0 and Multibillion Dollar Market Opportunities.
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AnandTech:
The MacBook Air CPU Mystery: More Details Revealed — Author: Anand Lal Shimpi MacBook Air Products — Earlier this week Apple announced its MacBook Air, and within hours we had the mystery of its “60% smaller” CPU uncovered. Or at least we thought. — It turns out there's even more depth …
Emma Vandore / Associated Press:
Orange Chief: French IPhone Selling — France's Orange Says IPhone Sales Better Than Expected — PARIS (AP) — Sales in France of the much-hyped Apple Inc. iPhone after the holiday season are going better than mobile carrier Orange expected, Didier Lombard, head of Orange parent France Telecom, said Thursday.
Aviv Raff / Aviv Raff On .NET:
Skype cross-zone scripting vulnerability — Skype uses Internet Explorer web control within the application to render internal and external HTML pages. Examples for this pages are the “Send money via PayPal” dialog, or “Add video to chat” dialog. — Recently, I've discovered that Skype is running this web control in Local Zone.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google No Longer Displays Stop Words Warning — In the past, a search on google stop words in search would return a warning that read, ""in" is a very common word and was not included in your search." But if you do that search today, no such message is displayed.
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Web Ad Buyer: Online Less Robust Than You Think, CPMs Headed Down — Most prognosticators predict another booming year for online advertising, but Carl Fremont isn't so sure. Fremont, the global media director for digital ad giant Digitas, says the weakening economy will slow down Web ads as well.
Nokia:
Nokia N95 8GB, the first DLNA certified mobile — Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced that the Nokia N95 8GB had the distinction of being the first ever mobile phone to receive Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) certification. The DLNA is a body advocating the interoperability of wired and wireless consumer devices.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Don't miss lessons Radiohead, Reznor offer — Musicians aren't merchants. — We certainly learned that through Radiohead and Trent Reznor's separate experiments with choose-your-price album promotions. — In October, Reznor, the leader of the band Nine Inch Nails …
