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More than 400 television stations have stopped broadcasting in old-fashioned analog form, according to the Federal Communications Commission, months before the rescheduled transition to digital TV.
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Turning off the analog signal allows stations that are short of cash to save money, but it also means a loss [...]

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BARCELONA, Spain — Microsoft said on Monday that LG Electronics had agreed to use Microsoft’s new mobile operating system on 50 of its smartphone models, increasing the software maker’s bid to gain a bigger share of the fast-growing mobile software business.
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SAN FRANCISCO — More electronic books are coming to mobile phones.
In a move that could bolster the growing popularity of e-books, Google said Thursday that the 1.5 million public domain books it had scanned and made available free on PCs were now accessible on mobile devices like the iPhone and the [...]

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The mobile phone maker Motorola said on Wednesday that it would cut 4,000 more jobs in 2009, in addition to 3,000 it announced last year.
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The company said the move would save about $700 million a year starting in 2009, and total $1.5 billion in annual savings when combined with [...]

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CREATING new jobs is a good way to get America’s economy moving again. That’s not the controversial part of President-elect Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plans. As usual, the devil is in the details. And innovation advocates fear that if the devil runs amok, a short-sighted emphasis on jobs over long-term productivity may bog down [...]

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Could book lovers finally be willing to switch from pages to pixels?
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Although Amazon will not disclose sales figures, the Kindle has at least lived up to its name by creating broad interest in electronic books.
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AS the father of an 11-year-old son, I often wonder what’s wrong with kids today. With my child as an exception, of course, they do not seem very bright. They appear to be shamelessly narcissistic, apathetic and lacking in social skills.
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And even the best are hopelessly addicted to video games. How [...]

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Bowing to the rapid rise of news distributed digitally rather than on paper, the Pulitzer Prizes will begin immediately accepting submissions from online-only publications.
The Pulitzers, administered by Columbia University, are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards for American newspaper reporting and commentary. Beginning with the 2009 prizes, which cover work done in 2008 and [...]

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Canadian Internet users are far more likely than Americans to use a social networking Web site, according to September figures released by the research firm comScore. That number is consistent with Canadians’ generally heavy use of sophisticated Internet features like online video.
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“We joke that it’s because of those long winter nights [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO — Attackers bent on shutting down large Web sites — even the operators that run the backbone of the Internet — are arming themselves with what are effectively vast digital fire hoses capable of overwhelming the world’s largest networks, according to a new report on online security.
In these attacks, computer networks are [...]

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