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Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest maker of mobile phones, said its third-generation Galaxy S smartphone went on sale Tuesday in 28 European and Middle Eastern countries, hoping to cement its lead over Apple's iPhone.

Korea's Samsung Electronics says it will start selling its newest smartphone in 28 countries as it seeks to cement its position as the world's top-selling mobile phone maker.

British electrical retailer Dixons has spent the last few weeks stockpiling security shutters to protect its nearly 100 stores across Greece in case of riot.

Japan's Panasonic Corp plans to nearly halve the number of workers at its headquarters through early retirement and transfers to subsidiaries, the Nikkei business daily reported on Tuesday, sending shares in the electronics group up 3 percent.

A woman reported that dead animals keep showing up in her driveway in the 600 block of Park Avenue.

Balance studio designed Pulpop - a sculptural doughnut-shaped speaker made from recycled paper pulp that blasts your mp3 player's tunes straight from your desk.

On the hunt for a new digital camera? We've rounded-up some of the best, from compacts, though compact systems cameras all the way up to full DSLRs.

Smartphones could soon sport some serious bits of eye-candy, with LG Display's latest release sculpted out for mobile devices.

The Ahmedabad Detection of Crime Branch arrested a former employee of ICICI Bank in the early hours of Sunday for allegedly firing at his ex-colleagues and snatching a mobile phone from a woman, all reportedly in an inebriated state on Saturday.

Scientists from the University of South Carolina have invented a T-shirt that could charge cell phones.

An employee of Samsung Electronics walks past one of its 3D LED televisions displayed for visitors at the company's headquarters in Seoul April 30, 2010.

The final weeks of statewide general elections in North Carolina are usually marked by perceived shadowy third-party groups spending big money to soak the airwaves with television commercials and campaigns suing or threatening to sue over an ad that strikes a nerve.

The FTSE 100 company has discussed buying up a portion of the airwaves put up for sale by Everything Everywhere, the owner of mobile networks Orange and T-Mobile, according to the Sunday Times.

There are more than 21 million eligible Hispanic voters - and more than 30 percent of them are 18 to 30 years old.

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Matthew Key, former head of O2 in the UK, is gambling that he can make new digital and online ventures pay off for the Spanish telecoms firm Matthew Key's career has been marked by three big bets.

A Minnetonka woman is facing multiple charges for allegedly sending inappropriate messages to a 17-year-old student at the school where she student taught.

The DeLorme inReach is the first affordable 2-way Satellite Communicator on the market.

Judge David Rand ruled the sender of a text message cannot be sued for liability in an accident that occurred after it was read.

Pupils Rhiannon Croker, Caleb Assirati, Joshua Watts and Mary Anne Makani tune into their exam revision with the podcast system STUDENTS studying for GCSE exams at a Trowbridge school have adopted a novel approach to revision, using mobile phones and iPods.