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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Activision Inc on Thursday posted a higher-than-expected quarterly profit and gave a bullish revenue forecast, citing strong sales of its hit "Call of Duty 4" and "Guitar Hero 3" video games.
"Green" robot self-propels through seamore similar news »
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new detector combines a laser with a mass spectrometer to provide on-the-spot analysis that researchers hope will have applications ranging from evaluating a tumor as it is removed to quickly detecting explosives in luggage.
ARM Google phone platform demo due Monday: sourcemore similar news »
FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - British chip designer ARM will demonstrate a prototype of Google Inc's Android mobile phone platform in action next week at the world's biggest wireless fair, a source close to the company said.
Foreclosure Web sites expand audiencemore similar news »
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Foreclosures were once the turf of the most aggressive investors, but these days ordinary home buyers can hunt for fire-sale house prices on a wealth of Internet sites.
Short of staff, Norway eyes robot care for elderlymore similar news »
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Google Apps adds work group features for businessesmore similar news »
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Three undersea cables seen fixed by weekendmore similar news »
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California court bars unmasking of Web criticmore similar news »
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Google planning China online music tie-up: reportmore similar news »
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Rich-poor "digital divide" still broad, says UNCTADmore similar news »
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AT&T plans 80 new high-speed mobile markets in '08more similar news »
NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc said on Wednesday it would expand its high-speed wireless service to 80 additional markets in 2008, increasing the number of markets where it offers the service to 350 big U.S. markets.
Bidding stalls again on key U.S. wireless airwavesmore similar news »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bidding stalled on Tuesday in the closely watched auction of a piece of wireless airwaves that the U.S. government is selling, according to data released by the Federal Communications Commission.
AOL buys online marketing network buy.atmore similar news »
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Nokia starts roll-out of gaming, networking sitesmore similar news »
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia began the roll-out of its "N-Gage" gaming service and "Share on Ovi" media sharing site on Tuesday as falling handset prices spur the world's largest cell phone maker to expand into mobile Internet services.
