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Stocks hover at 18-month highs

Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:23:51 +0000

Stocks ended little changed Friday, as investors welcomed a report that showed a surprise rise in retail sales, but showed caution as the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 lingered below 18-month highs.

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Apple iPad — model A1337 — phreaks the FCC

Chris Ziegler — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:17:00 +0000

A pair of iPads was just revealed in the FCC’s system in perfect synchrony with that little pre-order sitch which which you may or may not already be familiar. Apple, of course, has a track record of timing its FCC filings perfectly so that virtually nothing is revealed before Cupertino wants it to be, and frankly, you’re not going to get much here that you didn’t already know — the photographs (both external and internal) and the user manual are both still under confidentiality. Both units were tested for WiFi 802.11a/b/g/n and Bluetooth, while one — model number A1337 — adds in GSM 850 / 1900 and UMTS 850 / 1900, so it appears that Apple has bundled all of its 3G and non-3G models into just two filings regardless of storage capacity. We caught A1337 flipping through an old issue of 2600, so for all we know, it socially engineered its way to FCC approval — whatever it takes to make that late-April launch window, right?

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Lenovo CEO says mobile internet products will soon account for ‘70 to 80 percent’ of sales

Donald Melanson — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:12:00 +0000

Lenovo may mostly be associated with laptops and all-business desktops these days, but it looks like the company’s CEO hopes that won’t be the case for too much longer. Speaking with the AP, Yang Yuanqing dropped the somewhat surprising statement that he expects mobile internet products to account for between 70 and 80 percent of the company’s sales “within three to five years.” Of course, Yang didn’t specify exactly what constitutes a “mobile internet product” for Lenovo, but we’d assume it includes things like the company’s new IdeaPad S10-3t (and possibly even traditional laptops), or else it really has its work cut out for itself. He further went on to add that Lenovo is focused on a “protect and attack” strategy over the longer term, noting that while China accounts for half of its global sales at the moment, it’s now facing increased competition from the likes of Dell and HP both at home and abroad.

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The Engadget Podcast, live at 4:15EST!

Nilay Patel — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:07:00 +0000

Hey, is there something going on that we should talk about? Join us in just a few and let’s find out… together.

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AT&T’s de la Vega: HSPA+ coming ‘in certain locations’

Chris Ziegler — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:49:00 +0000

AT&T hasn’t been quite as forthcoming with the exact details of its post-3G plans as T-Mobile and Verizon have been recently, but FierceBroadbandWireless appears to have wrested a tidbit from wireless boss Ralph de la Vega in a recent interview. Though the standard HSPA 7.2Mbps deployment is still AT&T’s short-term focus, HSPA+ — which can theoretically take HSPA to 21Mbps and beyond — is clearly still on its radar prior to LTE. “We will also deploy HSPA+ in certain locations,” de la Vega said on no uncertain terms — without revealing even a hint about where those “certain locations” might be, unfortunately.

Speaking of LTE, the 4G tech still seems to be very much on AT&T’s back burner right now, a strategy that seems pretty difficult to argue with considering HSPA’s considerable room to grow from its current speeds and the lack of LTE devices in the pipeline. Of course, that could end up really hurting these guys three or five years down the line when the first generation of LTE is in its prime and they’re just getting started, but — and this is a huge “but” — if they can save up some cash by rolling cheaper HSPA upgrades now and really dump unheard-of levels of cash into the network when they’re good and ready, it’s conceivable that they’ll be able to build out a big footprint in short order. Ralph, can we recommend you look to Bell and Telus for inspiration on how to pull that off?

AT&T’s de la Vega: HSPA+ coming ‘in certain locations’ originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Kristen Stewart: Guess Who Gets Her Starstruck?

E! Online (UK) - Top Stories — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:46:00 +0000

Kristen Stewart says she doesn’t get starstruck very often, but at this year’s Oscars she was left speechless not once, but twice.

So who got Ms. Stewart flustered? First up, an…

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$642 million to clean up Lehman

Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:36:11 +0000

Unraveling the biggest-ever U.S. bankruptcy case isn’t cheap.

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Whose Supercute Celebrity Daughter Is This?

E! Online (UK) - Top Stories — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:24:23 +0000

We’ve heard all about this little girl but never really seen her except for this one time she was in an American Express ad (don’t click in unless you want to be labeled a…

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Can You Spare Some Cash for Corey Haim’s Funeral?

E! Online (UK) - Top Stories — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:21:00 +0000

Corey Haim is going home, and his family is hoping fans help pay for the ride.

After being autopsied yesterday, the body of the ’80s teen heartthrob has been released to…

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Entourage Edge review

Joanna Stern — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:19:00 +0000

Is it an Android tablet? An e-reader? Just a sweet gadget with two screens? Truth is the Entourage Edge is a little bit of everything, and that’s exactly why we’ve been so intrigued with the “dualbook” since we fondled it at CES. Finally ready to make its shipping debut, the $499 dual screen device is aimed at students, but really it’s for anyone interested in a combination 9.7-inch E Ink reading / note-taking experience and a 10.1-inch Android web tablet. It’s sounded very cool to us for quite a while, but there’s always a difference between hype and reality. Does the Edge live up to its promise or attempt to do too much? The only place to find out is after the break in our full review.

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