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$1,000 priced iPhone not a hit in China

Apple's Chinese partner sold 5,000 iPhones in the country after the handset made its debut last week, but is still hopeful it will increase the number of its third-generation mobile users by more than 1 million a month.
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Sony Ericsson unveils first Android phone

Sony Ericsson unveiled its flagship X10 mobile phone on Tuesday, its first to run on Google Inc's Android operating system, hoping the device will help reverse its loss of market share.
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Sony Ericsson unveils its first Android phone

Sony Ericsson unveiled its new X10 flagship mobile phone on Tuesday, its first to run on Google's Android operating system, but said it would not go on sale until early next year.
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Online holiday sales seen up 8 percent

U.S. online sales are expected to rise 8 percent this holiday season, with mass market retailers who can offer discounts performing best, according to Forrester Research Inc.
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Marvell unveils new e-reader platform

Chipmaker Marvell Technology Group Ltd on Monday jumped into the fast-growing electronic reader market, unveiling a platform that the company says will allow for a new generation of zippier, lower-cost devices.
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Market ends up on solid economic data

U.S. stocks ended higher on Monday after another round of solid economic reports, but pulled off session highs as investors sold some bank shares following a Fed official's warning about banks' potential losses on commercial real estate loans.
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Ex-AMD CEO Ruiz quits as Globalfoundries chairman

Former Advanced Micro Devices Inc Chief Executive Hector Ruiz will step down as chairman of contract chip maker Globalfoundries, following reports linking him to the largest hedge-fund insider trading scheme ever.
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Indexes turn negative after rally on data

U.S. stocks turned negative on Monday as investors pulled back after pushing indexes up about 1 percent on better-than-expected data on manufacturing and pending home sales.
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Analyst: Motorola Droid to steal customers from RIM, Palm

Motorola's growing popularity with its upcoming Motorola Droid smartphone with Google's Android operating system may help increase the company's market share, but analysts warn this will largely affect rivals like Research In Motion and Palm.
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Ruiz to step down as Globalfoundries chairman

Hector Ruiz will step down as chairman of chip maker Globalfoundries, following reports linking the former Advanced Micro Devices chief executive to the largest insider trading scheme in decades.
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Human Genome, Glaxo lupus drug works in 2nd trial

Human Genome Sciences Inc said its experimental lupus drug Benlysta was successful in a second large clinical trial, paving the way for approval of the first new treatment for the disease in 50 years.
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Holiday shoppers' search extends to social media

From Facebook to Twitter to YouTube, retailers and food chains plan to use social media this holiday season to get their brands in front of consumers and possibly win a bigger piece of their limited shopping budgets.
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Hit streaming service Spotify eyes U.S. music fans

MTV Urge ... Yahoo Music Unlimited ... Virgin Digital ... Since 2003 -- when iTunes launched in the United States -- all of these digital music services have come and gone, without challenging Apple's market dominance, despite the backing of resource-rich parent companies.
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Comcast close to gaining control of NBC universal: report

Comcast Corp and General Electric Co are closer to a deal to give Comcast a 51 percent stake in NBC Universal and a formal announcement may be made in the coming week, the New York Times said, citing people briefed on the talks.
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Cisco, EMC team up on cloud computing: sources

Cisco Systems Inc and EMC Corp are teaming up to sell a new line of networking gear, computers and storage equipment designed for use with cloud computing, according to sources familiar with their plans.
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E-readers may not solve publisher woes yet

Publishers hoping to halt a slide in sales with new electronic reading devices will struggle to get consumers to embrace them until the technology improves, experts say.
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Cellphone market growth raises pricing fears

The global cellphone market is set to grow in the holiday sales-fueled October-to-December quarter, after four quarters of falls, raising fears of pricing battles, analysts said on Friday.
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A look at Windows 7 after its first week

A week after Microsoft launched Windows 7, users are familiarizing themselves with the more intuitive interface while some have faced problems installing the software. Despite these difficulties, analysts still predict PC sales will rise worldwide in the fourth quarter of this year.
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Samsung upbeat on 2010 after record Q3 profit

Samsung Electronics , the world's top maker of memory chips and LCD screens, gave a robust outlook, signaling bigger players are set to further widen the gap over smaller firms in a tech sector recovery.
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Horror video games scare up record sales

What do Jigsaw from Saw, Freddy Krueger, and Jason from Friday the 13th all have in common, besides serial killing? Video games, if the horror stars' latest round of promotions are to be believed.

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