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Big quarter made Apple world’s largest 
smartphone seller, analyst says
01-30-12
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple Inc.’s record 37 million iPhones sold in the last quarter of 2011 made it the world’s leading smartphone vendor for the quarter, barely topping rival Samsung Electronics Co., an analysis firm reported Friday.
Apple sets out to transform textbooks 01-23-12
LOS ANGELES — Apple Inc. has already transformed the music, mobile phone and personal computing industries, and now the tech giant says its next chapter will be about reinventing textbooks.
‘Connected homes’ expected 
to converse with computers, phones
01-16-12
LAS VEGAS — Is your refrigerator running? If you don’t know, just ask it.
Apps to speed the car-buying process 01-09-12
Auto sales numbers show car shoppers are venturing back onto dealer lots. Many are toting smartphones and tablets, too. Even when you’re car-shopping on Craigslist, car-hunting applications will help you identify the better deals.
Sony quits organic-screen TV business 01-09-12
TOKYO - Sony Corp. has discontinued production of TV sets with organic electroluminescence (EL) display panels, widely seen as the mainstream panel to be used in next-generation flat-screen TVs, it was learned Saturday.
Sound Advice: Powered subwoofers with speaker-level inputs 01-03-12
Q. A salesman in a big box store told me that a powered subwoofer cannot be connected to a 2-channel stereo receiver. Is he right?
Q&A: Improve your Outlook or get new email 01-03-12
Question: My Outlook 2003 email program has suddenly stopped sending or receiving messages that are to or from addresses outside my Internet service provider’s email system. I get no error messages and I see the Outlook message “send/receive complete” as if all were normal.
Hewlett-Packard offers fix for printers susceptible to remote hacks 12-27-11
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Hewlett-Packard released a firmware update Friday that it says will fix a susceptibility in some of the Palo Alto, Calif., company’s popular LaserJet printers that researchers said could allow hackers to remotely take control of the devices.
Sales of Amazon Kindles exceed 1 million for third straight week 12-19-11
LOS ANGELES - For the third week in a row, Amazon.com Inc. has sold more than 1 million Kindles a week. During that time, sales of its Kindle Fire tablet have increased week over week, the e-commerce giant said Thursday.
IBM’s Watson computer to help doctors 12-19-11
LOS ANGELES - IBM’s Watson supercomputer may be best known for handily beating “Jeopardy!” game show champs.
Has Facebook killed the holiday card? 12-12-11
On one side of the gold-wrapped chocolate coin in your Christmas stocking, there’s Kathleen Snider, of Alameda, Calif., who was simply stunned to get a detailed, family-update holiday letter in the mail from a friend last year because she figured everyone is on Facebook now and no one sends holiday cards or letters anymore.
Hewlett-Packard to retain webOS as open-source platform 12-12-11
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hewlett-Packard Co. will not sell the remnants of its Palm acquisition, instead making the webOS mobile operating system available to developers as an open-source platform.
Amazon takes bite out of Apple’s market share for tablets 12-05-11
SAN JOSE, Calif. - In its first quarter of selling its own tablet computers, Amazon.com Inc. has become the second-biggest seller of the increasingly popular mobile devices by stealing market share from the still-dominant leader, Apple Inc., according to projections.
Cyber Monday cheats everyone 11-28-11
With the holiday season now in full swing, why are so many Main Street retailers down in the dumps? The reason is “Cyber Monday,” and it will likely go down as the biggest online shopping day in the history of the Internet.
Mobile Flash can’t die soon enough 11-21-11
Somewhere Steve Jobs must be smiling.
Amazon takes only slight loss on Kindle Fire tablet 11-21-11
LOS ANGELES - Amazon.com Inc. is taking a loss on each $199 Kindle Fire it sells, according to a new report from the research firm IHS iSuppli that pegs the total cost to make each tablet at $201.70.
HD stands for high demand
If your home is your castle you probably prefer a night in to a night out. Staying in to catch the latest DVD release is probably the comfort food of entertainment. Now, many homes feature a theater room that comes as close as possible to seeing it on the big screen.
Wired and waiting
You’re driving home after work on a dark, freezing, snowy day. So you make a call to your house and tell it to turn on the driveway defrosters and the outdoor lighting. You go to bed that night and the house wakes you up in the morning with soft music, a hot shower waiting and a carafe of steaming coffee in the breakfast room.

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