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Reuters - Sales of mobile phones will shrink faster than expected as consumers are cutting spending, the world's top mobile phone maker Nokia said on Thursday in its second warning in three weeks.
AFP - An appeals court in communist Vietnam on Thursday upheld a blogger's two-and-a-half-year jail sentence for tax fraud in a case media watchdog groups have said was politically motivated.
PC World - Yahoo's lab in India is developing technology that will summarize information about web search results rather than simply offer links as search engines currently do.
Reuters - An Australian father who made his 5-year-old son walk 13 km (8 miles) to school every day to discipline him has inspired an appreciation group on social networking site Facebook.
PC World - Microsoft continues to crack down on people it believes are counterfeiting and selling its software. On Thursday the company will add another 63 legal filings in 12 countries against individuals who it says are selling counterfeit Microsoft products.
AP - AT&T isn't disclosing where it is cutting 12,000 jobs, 4 percent of its work force. But the company did say one reason for the cuts is a "changing business mix." That refers, at least in part, to the long-term trend in which customers are abandoning traditional landline phone service for wireless options or phone service from the cable ...
Reuters - Sales of mobile phones will shrink faster than expected as consumers are cutting spending, the world's top mobile phone maker Nokia said on Thursday in its second warning in three weeks.
PC World - Researchers at BitDefender have discovered a new type of malicious software that collects passwords for banking sites but targets only Firefox users.
Reuters - Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who resigned earlier this year over his involvement in a prostitution ring, will write a column for online magazine Slate.com about the economy and financial regulation.
PC World - The world's second Google phone, based on the Android mobile operating system, is set to launch at the end of January. Manufactured under the Australian Kogan brand, the phone will come in two flavors, for $225 or $295.
AFP - Nokia, the world's leading mobile phone maker, on Thursday lowered its outlook for the global cell phone market this year and offered a bleak forecast for 2009.
AFP - Nintendo has sold more than half a million of its latest hand-held DSi console in Japan in the first month since its launch, a survey showed Thursday.
AP - World-leading mobile phone maker Nokia Corp. on Thursday downgraded its fourth-quarter market outlook for the second time, saying the slowdown in the industry was bigger than expected.