Hurricane Sandy disrupts Northeast U.S. telecom networks

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Power outages and flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy disrupted telecommunications services in Northeastern states on Tuesday, resulting in spotty coverage for cellphones, television, home telephones and Internet services. While...

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Disney to buy "Star Wars" producer for $4.05 billion

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co agreed to buy filmmaker George Lucas's Lucasfilm Ltd and its "Star Wars" franchise for $4.05 billion in cash and stock, a blockbuster deal that includes the surprise promise of a new film in the series in 2015....

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Google unveils first 10-inch Nexus tablet

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc unveiled a larger version of its Nexus-branded tablet computer on Monday, and updated its mobile gadget and online content offerings as competition with Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp heats up ahead...

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Apple software, retail chiefs out in overhaul

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook on Monday replaced the heads of its software and retail units in the company's biggest executive shake-up in a decade following embarrassing problems with its new mapping program and unpopular store-related...

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Taxpayer data exposed in cyber attack on South Carolina agency

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - As many as 3.6 million Social Security numbers and 387,000 credit and debit card numbers used by state taxpayers could have been exposed to a hacker in recent cyber attacks on the state Department of Revenue's computers,...

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SAP eyes "long" period of high sales growth: report

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's SAP may be able to sustain high sales from software and related services for a "very long time," co-chief executive Bill McDermott told a German newspaper. "It's our ambition to grow with double-digit numbers for a very...

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Surface tablet buzz starts, but Windows 8 excitement muted

SEATTLE (Reuters) - U.S. shoppers woke up with mild Surface fever on Friday, lining up in moderate numbers to buy Microsoft's groundbreaking tablet computer designed to challenge Apple's iPad. The global debut of the Windows 8 operating system was greeted...

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Star Silicon Valley analyst felled by Facebook IPO fallout

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The firing of Citigroup stock analyst Mark Mahaney on Friday in the regulatory fallout from Facebook Inc's initial public offering was greeted with shock and dismay in Silicon Valley, where Mahaney was a well-known and well-liked...

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Tech CEOs trade barbs, warm up for holiday tablet wars

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The biggest names in consumer technology, stung by a string of disappointing quarterly results this month, are suiting up for what's shaping to be the fiercest holiday battle in years. Investors and consumers have already largely...

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Surface tablet buzz starts, but Windows 8 excitement muted

SEATTLE (Reuters) - U.S. shoppers woke up with mild Surface fever on Friday, lining up in moderate numbers to buy Microsoft's groundbreaking tablet computer designed to challenge Apple's iPad. The global debut of the Windows 8 operating system was greeted...

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Apple iPad sales disappoint, Street eyes the holidays

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc delivered a second straight quarter of disappointing results and iPad sales fell well short of Wall Street's targets, marring its record of consistently blowing past investors' expectations. Shares in the world's...

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Samsung says to book patent provisions after U.S. ruling

SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will book patent-related provisions once a U.S. court makes a ruling on its over $1 billion litigation with Apple Inc, it said on Friday. "The amount of provisioning will be fixed according to U.S. court...

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Tech focus now on Microsoft Windows 8, Surface tablet

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Firm sales numbers for Microsoft Corp's Windows 8 and its new Surface tablet will not be available for three months, but it may be clear long before then if it has a hit on its hands. "We can definitely gauge it by chatter," said...

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Apple's Mac flies in under the radar

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amid the fanfare accompanying the noisy launch of the iPad mini this week, Apple Inc also took the wraps off new Mac computers. The facelift may help revitalize an important lineup that -- while seeing growth tail off in the...

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Apple unwraps mini-iPad to take on Amazon, Google

SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Apple Inc will begin to sell an 8-inch version of the iPad on Friday to compete with Amazon.com Inc's Kindle and other smaller tablets, but it set a higher-than-expected price tag of $329 that Wall Street fears could curb demand....

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Facebook's mobile surprise allays growth fears

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc grew mobile advertising revenue several times in the third quarter, a faster-than-expected pace that helped drive shares in the world's No. 1 social network nearly 13 percent higher. Facebook said on Tuesday that...

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Apple set to unwrap mini-iPad to take on Amazon, Google

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc is expected to make its biggest product move on Tuesday since debuting the iPad two years ago, launching a smaller, cheaper tablet into a market staked out by Amazon.com Inc and Google Inc. Apple hopes to beat back...

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Yahoo's new CEO Mayer takes on the mobile challenge

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Chief Executive Marrisa Mayer promised to modernize Yahoo's websites and make them more smartphone-friendly in her debut appearance at the helm of the struggling company, faulting it for underinvesting in the "mobile wave"....

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Presidential campaigns hit Colorado hard this week

COLORADO SPRINGS — On the eve of the start of early voting at polling places in Colorado, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan told a crowd of close to 1,000 Sunday that the election could hinge on the state. "Please remember,...

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Searchers find body of missing Leadville fisherman in Turquoise Lake

Searchers have found the body of a man who disappeared while fishing at Turquoise Lake on Saturday, according to the Lake County Sheriff's Office. Anthony Pacheco, 55, of Leadville, left his home at about 8 a.m. with his dog to go fishing on the...

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Shooting in Colorado Springs leads to highway chase, crash on I-25

A search is ongoing in Douglas County for a driver who crashed a car fleeing from a state trooper and investigators suspect the driver was involved in a Colorado Springs shooting earlier on Saturday. The incident started at about 7 p.m. when officers...

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Thousand of zombies, mutants overtake downtown Denver

At noon Saturday, the first ravaged corpses began to roll into Skyline Park along Arapahoe Street. By 2 p.m., thousands of scarred and bloodied "walking dead" had made downtown Denver their stronghold, marking the seventh annual Zombie Crawl along...

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U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman duplicated others' words in Post, DBJ op-eds

A pair of columns published by Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman of Aurora within the past year contain passages of previously published work by other House members but did not attribute the source of the information or writing. The op-ed columns...

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