January 14, 2012
One of the pleasures, and risks, of attending the gigantic Consumer Electronics Show is seeing a bunch of new products that look incredibly cool. Why a risk? Because things that look incredibly cool under carefully controlled conditions in Las Vegas sometimes turn out to be less than stellar successes by the time they hit [...]
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December 21, 2011
A woman reads the tabloid newspaper “The Mirror” in London. CNN chat show host Piers Morgan told the British press ethics inquiry that he had no reason to believe phone hacking went on at the Daily Mirror during his editorship. In a robust performance, Morgan refused to elaborate on the circumstances in which he heard [...]
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December 3, 2011
A woman (1, L) talks on her cell phone at a gas station in Ho Chi Minh City. A man in Hanoi has been sent to the hospital with severe burns after talking on his cell phone at a gas station. Â Vu Trong Khanh, 34, was still being treated at Saint Paul Hospital on [...]
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November 14, 2011
Shoppers at a Vien Thong A phone retail outlet. TD Mobile of Japan has acquired 30 percent of the shares of Vietnamese phone retailer Vien Thong A (VTA), according to media reports. The exact amount of the deal has not been made public. TD Mobile is a joint venture between Toyota Tsusho Corp., one of [...]
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November 2, 2011
A law firm which represented Rupert Murdoch’s London tabloids has turned over to the British parliament documents which could embarrass his son James when he returns to testify before a committee investigating a phone-hacking scandal. Parliamentary and company sources told Reuters that Farrer & Co, a London law firm which until recently represented Murdoch’s [...]
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October 20, 2011
A corporate logo is displayed at the Nokia flagship store in Helsinki in this picture taken September 29, 2010. The world’s largest cellphone maker Nokia reported a smaller than expected fall in third quarter profits as price cuts and new models lifted sales of its basic cellphones in key markets like India. Shares in Nokia [...]
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October 14, 2011
A photo taken with a mobile phone showing judge Nguyen Thanh Mong leaving a guest house with a local's wife. A provincial judge in southern Vietnam has admitted going to a local guesthouse with a married woman, claiming he was offering her advice she sought on family problems. Nguyen Thanh Mong, deputy head of the [...]
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September 25, 2011
A promotional spam message sent to a mobile phone. Individuals and organizations using telecommunication devices to send spam with sex and some other contents will be fined up to 50 million (US$2,400), according to a government resolution Tuesday.  Spammers caught sending spam about gambling, fortune telling, sex, violence and superstition will be fined between VND30-50 [...]
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September 4, 2011
Quiet 18-year-old youth confesses to killing three members of a family in failed gold heist Le Van Luyen (C), 18, is arrested on Wednesday (August 31) in the northern province of Lang Son for allegedly murdering three people at a Bac Giang gold shop on August 24 An 18-year-old youth, described as a quiet [...]
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August 23, 2011
Andy Coulson, the former spokesman for Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, leaves a police station after being bailed, in South London, July 8, 2011. News Corp funded the former editor of the News of the World tabloid when he worked for David Cameron in opposition, the BBC said, in new evidence of the close links [...]
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