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  • Sprint posts deeper 4Q loss on iPhone costs (AP)'); writeln('
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    In this Feb. 7, 2012 photo a woman shops for a Sprint smart phone at a Little Rock, Ark., Best Buy store. The iPhone helped Sprint gain customers in the latest quarter, but also forced the carrier to post its largest loss in three years because of the high cost of the phone a network upgrade. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)AP - Sprint dug deep into its pockets in the latest quarter to put iPhones in the hands of its customers. The perennially money-losing company on Wednesday posted its largest loss in three years.


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  • Time Warner sees growth after Harry Potter movies (AP)'); writeln('
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    FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2008 file photo, the Time Warner Center is shown in New York. Time Warner said Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, its fourth-quarter earnings grew slightly as revenue jumped 8 percent on strong performance at its Warner Bros. movie studio and its cable television networks. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)AP - Time Warner Inc. got a boost from its movie studio and cable TV networks in the last three months of the year, and the company expects growth to continue in 2012 even with the end of its lucrative Harry Potter franchise.


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  • Rambus, Nvidia sign patent licensing deal (AP)'); writeln('
  • '); writeln('AP - Technology licensing company Rambus Inc. said Wednesday it has signed a licensing agreement with chip maker Nvidia Corp. to settle a long-running patent dispute.'); writeln('
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  • Watch the contenders for DARPA’s flying robot competition take to the sky (Yahoo! News)'); writeln('
  • '); writeln('Yahoo! News - DARPA was on the hunt for the best unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone designs, so it launched the UAVForge competition in late 2011. While helicopter and plane-like designs were expected, a few of the entries were actually rather unique. Take for example …'); writeln('
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  • Relax, the PlayStation Network isn’t going anywhere (Yahoo! News)'); writeln('
  • '); writeln('Yahoo! News - Any time you tweak the vocabulary surrounding a network that millions of people use every day, there is bound to be some confusion. That's just what happened earlier this week when Sony announced it would be renaming PlayStation Network accounts as Sony …'); writeln('
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  • British Cabinet Warns of Possible Internet Outages During Summer Olympics (Mashable)'); writeln('
  • '); writeln('Mashable - The British Cabinet Office has warned businesses in England that the country may not be able to fully accommodate a surge in Internet use during the 2012 Olympics in London this summer. Businesses have been told that Internet providers may be forced to ration access to the web during certain times of day and service may fall out altogether at other times.'); writeln('
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  • Hackers post W.Va. police officers' personal info (AP)'); writeln('
  • '); writeln('AP - Hackers affiliated with the group Anonymous obtained personal information for more than 150 police officers from an old website of the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association and posted the data online.'); writeln('
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  • AOL hires chief content officer for troubled Patch (Reuters)'); writeln('
  • '); writeln('Reuters - AOL Inc, which has been investing heavily in content to make up for declining revenue from dial-up Internet access, has hired an executive for the newly created position of chief content officer at its struggling Patch hyperlocal news network.'); writeln('
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  • Review: Soulo converts iPad into karaoke machine (AP)'); writeln('
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    This product image provided by First Act, Inc., shows the Soulo Digital Wireless Mic and App, a consumer electronics product that turns an iPad into a karaoke machine. (AP Photo/First Act, Inc.)AP - Karaoke lovers typically fall into two categories: Those who enjoy it, and those whose arms have to be twisted to get up and sing in public.


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  • Gameloft releases new social platform app for Android (Appolicious)'); writeln('
  • '); writeln('Appolicious - Mobile game maker Gameloft is responsible for some of the biggest-budget, biggest-name games on Google’s Android operating system (as well as Apple’s iOS), which is probably why it has 7 million registered players in its proprietary gaming network. Today the company released a new app that lets dedicated Gameloft fans access that network even when they’re not playing Asphalt 6 or Modern Combat.'); writeln('
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  • CNN suspends Roland Martin over anti-gay tweets (Reuters)'); writeln('
  • '); writeln('Reuters - Cable TV network CNN said on Wednesday it has suspended commentator Roland Martin over a series of Twitter remarks during the Super Bowl game that offended America's gay community.'); writeln('
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  • Facebook afterglow lights up IPO markets (Reuters)'); writeln('
  • '); writeln('Reuters - The excitement generated by Facebook's IPO filing rubbed off on companies listing on U.S. stock exchanges on Wednesday, with four of them seeing strong first-day gains.'); writeln('
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  • Study says apps have generated almost 500,000 jobs in five years (Appolicious)'); writeln('
  • '); writeln('Appolicious - Lots of numbers come out of the ever-growing mobile app sphere, suggesting that there’s a ton of money to be made by companies ranging from Apple and Google to independent developers. A new study suggests that apps aren’t just good for the people selling them or using them, they’re having an even bigger impact on the U.S. economy.'); writeln('
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  • Nokia ends phone assembly in Europe, cuts jobs (AP)'); writeln('
  • '); writeln('AP - Nokia Corp. plans to stop assembling cell phones in Europe by year-end as it shifts production to Asia and will cut another 4,000 jobs, its latest attempts to cushion itself from stiff competition in the smartphone sector.'); writeln('
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  • Pinterest is profiting off your 'pinspired' purchases without a disclosure (Digital Trends)'); writeln('
  • '); writeln('Digital Trends - Pinterest has become entirely unavoidable. In its mere 23-month existence, the site has managed to create (or rather, curate) a cult-like following of devoted, pinning-obsessed users. It was recently reported that Pinterest drove more referral traffic last month than Google, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, and MySpace combined.'); writeln('
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  • Sprint loss widens on iPhone costs (Reuters)'); writeln('
  • '); writeln('Reuters - Sprint Nextel posted a wider quarterly loss because of the higher costs of selling Apple Inc's iPhone and the popular device delivered a smaller-than-expected boost to subscriber numbers, sending the company's shares down 2 percent.'); writeln('
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  • Kaspersky Lab's sales growth slowed in 2011 (Reuters)'); writeln('
  • '); writeln('Reuters - Russia's Kaspersky Lab reported that sales growth slowed substantially last year as the world's No. 4 maker of anti-virus software said its business was starting to mature.'); writeln('
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  • The U.S. and China: A Duel to the Debt (The Motley Fool)'); writeln('
  • '); writeln('The Motley Fool - In this period of "exceptional uncertainty" (to quote Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke), where can investors turn for a considered perspective on the current environment? Produced to feed the beast of the 24-hour news cycle, the bulk of financial journalism and commentary today isn't worth the servers it is stored on. One notable exception to that rule is Buttonwood, the financial markets column of The Economist. Philip Coggan is the columnist -- arguably the most influential position in financial journalism (along with the head of Lex at the Financial Times).'); writeln('
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