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Sprint posts deeper 4Q loss on iPhone costs
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AP - Sprint dug deep into its pockets in the latest quarter to put iPhones in the hands of its customers. The perennially money-losing company on Wednesday posted its largest loss in three years.Time Warner 4Q earnings edge up, beats Street
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AP - Time Warner Inc. got a boost from its movie studio and cable TV networks in the last three months of the year, and the company expects growth to continue in 2012 even with the end of its lucrative Harry Potter franchise.Rambus, Nvidia sign patent licensing deal
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AP - Technology licensing company Rambus Inc. said Wednesday it has signed a licensing agreement with chip maker Nvidia Corp. to settle a long-running patent dispute.Watch the contenders for DARPA’s flying robot competition take to the sky
(Yahoo! News)
Yahoo! News - DARPA was on the hunt for the best unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone designs, so it launched the UAVForge competition in late 2011. While helicopter and plane-like designs were expected, a few of the entries were actually rather unique. Take for example …Relax, the PlayStation Network isn’t going anywhere
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Yahoo! News - Any time you tweak the vocabulary surrounding a network that millions of people use every day, there is bound to be some confusion. That's just what happened earlier this week when Sony announced it would be renaming PlayStation Network accounts as Sony …British Cabinet Warns of Possible Internet Outages During Summer Olympics
(Mashable)
Mashable - The British Cabinet Office has warned businesses in England that the country may not be able to fully accommodate a surge in Internet use during the 2012 Olympics in London this summer.
Businesses have been told that Internet providers may be forced to ration access to the web during certain times of day and service may fall out altogether at other times.Hackers post W.Va. police officers' personal info
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AP - Hackers affiliated with the group Anonymous obtained personal information for more than 150 police officers from an old website of the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association and posted the data online.AOL hires chief content officer for troubled Patch
(Reuters)
Reuters - AOL Inc, which has been investing heavily in content to make up for declining revenue from dial-up Internet access, has hired an executive for the newly created position of chief content officer at its struggling Patch hyperlocal news network.
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