NEW YORK – Panasonic Corp. on Wednesday revealed the price for its first 3-D TV set, confirming that $3,000 is about what it takes to be among the first to watch 3-D movies in the home.
The Japanese company put its first 3-D sets on sale at an event in New York on Wednesday. Panasonic’s...
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Different modes of travel often require different routes to be taken. If you’re walking somewhere, for example, you’re not likely to take a highway to get there, and you have the distinct advantage of being able to go through certain structures that cars cannot. The same goes for biking. When someone is planning to...
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Facebook was accused of a “glaring failure” to implement advice on protecting children online after the conviction of a man for kidnapping, raping and murdering a teenager he ensnared using the social networking site.
Peter Chapman was jailed for life – with a minimum term of 35 years – yesterday for killing Ashleigh Hall, who...
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A friend of teenager Ashleigh Hall, who was murdered by serial sex offender Peter Chapman, has said she hopes he will “never see daylight again”.
Chapman has been jailed for life for raping and murdering the 17-year-old in a field in County Durham.
He posed as a handsome teenage boy called “Peter Cartwright” on the social-networking...
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Who is Peter Cartwright? Is he a 19-year-old Facebook hottie, or a 33-year-old registered sex offender? The answer became clear after the man behind the pseudo-identity, Peter Chapman, raped and murdered 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall in the fall of last year. He was found guilty on Monday and sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Ashleigh and...
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Facebook will finally make itself heard in the rapidly developing world of location-based services, according to The New York Times. The company will unveil a location-based feature at its f8 conference in late April.
The new location feature will have two aspects, according to the people familiar with Facebook’s plans. One will be a service...
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Cambridge, Mass. – Harmonix and MTV Games added the entirety of the seminal metal album Rust In Peace from Megadeath, to the Rock Band Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation® 3 computer entertainment system and Wii™.
Megadeth is among the more than 390 bands...
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Tuesday warned the United States against protectionism after a European-led consortium pulled out of the bidding for an Air Force contract, saying the terms had been altered to favor a U.S. company.
EADS, the parent company of Airbus, had partnered with Northrop Grumman to vie for the 179...
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TOKYO – Sony Corp. said Tuesday it will start selling 3-D televisions in June, joining a competitive industrywide push to convince consumers to embrace the technology for their living rooms.
The Japanese electronics giant, known for its PlayStation 3 game consoles and Bravia flat-screen TVs, will offer its fully capable 3-D TV model in four...
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Verizon Wireless has confirmed that data service outages affected eastern U.S. customers for up to four hours early today.
The company blamed the outage, which affected some users between 4 a.m. and 8 a.m. EST today, on defective software in one of its data centers.
In an e-mail, a Verizon Wireless spokesman said some users...
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