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		<title><![CDATA[Wind to announce cellphone pricing Wednesday]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wind Mobile, Canada's new major cellphone provider, will open stores and announce its service plans Wednesday. The company, fresh off receiving the federal government's blessing on Friday to launch its service, said it will announce its handset lineup and pricing plans at a news conference in Toronto on Wednesday morning....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:32:57 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bank Failures Keep On Coming, and Growing]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[While retail sales have started to improve a bit, and the rate of new job losses is slowing, U.S. banks are failing at an increasing rate, with those crumbling during this crisis reaching 133 over the weekend. The growing failures can't be explained away as a lagging indicator: delinquencies are...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:58:40 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Harry Winston?s Q3 Sales Plunge]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zacks.com submits:   Harry Winston Diamond Corp. HWD recently reported fiscal third-quarter results. The company posted a net loss of $214,000, or break-even per share, compared to a net profit of $71.9 million, or $1.17 per share in the year-ago quarter. However, the result came in ahead of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:37:03 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lala chief could steer iTunes away from MP3]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple was engaged in a bidding war with Google when it acquired music service, Lala, The Wall Street Journal subscription required reported on Friday. That helps to explain why Apple agreed to pay $85 million, a sum that I and others believed was far too much for a down-on-its-luck startup.What...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:25:41 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Video Game Stocks That Remain Bright Spots in Sector]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ockham Research submits:  November was not a great month for video game sales, according to an industry research firm NPD.  Overall sales dropped 7.6% from a year ago to $2.7 billion in the month, which is certainly a disappointment considering the month included the most successful game launch...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:07:51 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cox Brings 50 Mbps To Las Vegas - $119.99 per month for 50/5 Mbps]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Cox has reached out to us to note that they're launching their faster 50 Mbps downstream 5 Mbps upstream "Ultimate Internet" service in Las Vegas today. The company's faster DOCSIS 3.0 service, already launched in parts of Rhode Island, Arizona, Northern Virginia, and Lafayette, Louisiana, varies by price...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:15:07 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Game Sales Down In November, Analysts Split On Whether We'll See Holiday Rebound]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fpaidcontent.org%2Farticle%2F419-game-sales-down-in-november-analysts-split-on-whether-well-see-holiday-%2F&siteid=23&tag=contentnext]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Even the record-breaking sales of Activision&#8217;s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 weren&#8217;t enough to bring the video game industry out of its sales slump. Overall sales (hardware, software and accessories) for November came in at $2.69 billion, down 7 percent year-over-year. Total sales for the year thus far...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:43:21 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Need to know: Conygar sale ... Cadbury campaign ... MAN fines ...]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics Interest rates: The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee kept interest rates on hold at a record low of 0.5 per cent and stuck to its plan of buying £200 billion of gilts and corporate bonds by next February. Mortgages: The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:24:51 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[William Ackman Is Big on Sears, Not Retail-Sales Figures]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pershing Square Capital head William Ackman is betting that lagging retail sales aren't an indicator of the industry's health as a whole. by Ian Ritter]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:20:47 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[eBook Readers: Stink, Stank, Stunk]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each of these three e-book readers have enough things wrong with them that you should consider the "39 and a half foot pole approach" this holiday season. He's a mean one, that Mr. Pogue. He's a nasty, wasty skunk. His heart is full of unwashed socks and his soul is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:30:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Box Maker Blames FCC for Everything]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Set-top maker IPCO LLC is blaming FCC rules for its inability to gain market share, secure investors, and retain executives, and for pretty much everything but the weather. IPCO, which claims to make cheap, CableCARD-compliant boxes that adhere to a Federal Communications Commission FCC rule banning set-tops with integrated security,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:58:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Nokia closing U.S. flagship stores]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Nokia said it will close its flagship stores in the United States as part of a broader revamping of its retail strategy. The news comes days after Nokia announced it would close one of its two flagship stores in London. The company has 12 flagship stores worldwide.  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:07:12 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Apple Will Release Tablet PC in March or April, Says Analyst]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple will launch its long-rumored tablet PC in either late March or April, according to a research note from Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner. The note's predictions about the device?s shape, including a 10.1-inch touch screen, are roughly in line with what other analysts have hypothesized about the device. Despite the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:36:14 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Friendster Sold, Finally, To Malaysia's MOL Global]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The long and colorful saga of an independent Friendster is over, for now. As expected, it has been acquired, by the Malaysian company MOL Global Pte. More to come&#8230;MOL Global to Acquire Friendster MOL Retail and Payment Channels and Leading Online Social Network Combine to Form Massive Content Distribution...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:03:40 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Friendster finds a buyer in Asia]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/technology/news-analysis/friendster-finds-buyer-asia/23313/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Hot on the heels of its recent face-lift, Friendster has found a buyer for the onetime social-networking pioneer.MOL Global, a Malaysian online payment company, has agreed to purchase Friendster, the companies announced late Wednesday. Terms of the deal were not revealed, but rumors last week said a likely asking price...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:11:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Corning sees continued strength in LCD market, says vice chairman]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corning has announced that continued strength in worldwide LCD TV sales has led to an increase in the company's fourth-quarter glass substrate volume expectations, and an improved outlook on 2010 glass market growth. In a company statement released on December 9, Corning vice chairman and CFO James B Flaws indicated...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:57:13 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Redbox: The Enemy of the Entertainment Industry? [STUDY]]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ If bargain movie rentals are your thing, then you've probably already happened on those bright red self-servce kiosks that dispense movie rentals at a ridiculously low price of a $1 per movie per night.    The company is called  Redbox , and while their service is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:09:06 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cox Goes Mobile in 3 Test Markets]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/technology/news-analysis/cox-mobile-3-test-markets/23226/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Cox Communications today inched closer to a full-blown deployment of wireless offerings by launching its mobile phone and high-speed Internet services in the test markets of Hampton Roads, Va., Omaha, Neb. and Orange County, Calif. But the company has yet to disclose pricing or any other details that will help...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:48:36 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[PIPE Networks picks Equinix for PPC-1 interconnect]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PIPE Networks (ASX: PWK) has picked the Equinix data centre in Sydney as an interconnect provider for the recently launched PPC-1 undersea cable. The PIPE Networks undersea cable system, PIPE Pacific Cable (PPC-1), stretching from Sydney to Guam, was officially launched in October. The cable system, capable of carrying data...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:20:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ofgem warns industry of 'radical reform']]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Energy companies face the threat of "radical reform" of the market if profit margins keep rising, the industry regulator warned yesterday, sparking an angry response from suppliers. Alistair Buchanan, the chief executive of Ofgem, said the regulator's role was "to ensure that companies can invest, but do not use investment...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:36:56 -0800</pubDate>
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