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Barnes & Noble says Nook sold out before holidays
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:22:46 -0500SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc said on Friday it had sold out of its newly-launched Nook electronic readers due to high demand -- a pre-holiday miscalculation that analysts said could boost sales of rival Amazon.com Inc's market leading Kindle.

Gameloft says it, others reining in Android plans
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:04:59 -0500BARCELONA (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.

Google says PC will start in seven seconds or less
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:30:52 -0500MOUNTAIN 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.

Smartphone growth to continue strong in 2010
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:08:06 -0500BARCELONA (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.

Sony to launch online entertainment service in 2010
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:02:38 -0500TOKYO (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.

Chinese cyber-spying seen growing against U.S.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:03:59 -0500WASHINGTON (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.

AOL shows worst not over for media job cuts
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:20:31 -0500LOS 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.

Wikipedia, iPhone among decade's top 10 Internet moments
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:04:45 -0500NEW 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.

Microsoft says Windows 7 sales strong
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:56:33 -0500LOS 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.

Sony says e-readers in demand, shipments delayed
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:29:13 -0500SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Sony Corp said on Wednesday that early demand for its latest electronic reader was higher than expected in advance of the holidays and shipment delays could result.

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