Day: February 7, 2013

Business

Sony posts a net loss of $115 million for Q3, stays on track for full-year operating profit HD

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As reported on Engadget. By Richard Lawler Still-in-turnaround-mode Sony has reported its earnings for the October to December period, and has recorded a net loss of about 10.8 billion yen ($115 million). It did however improve its revenue to $21 billion as the yen weakened, despite slower sales of items like HDTVs and Blu-ray players. Key for Sony is that it managed an operating profit for the quarter of 46.4 billion yen ($496 million) and remains on…

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England to mandate dog microchips by 2016

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As reported on Engadget. By Zach Honig Thinking about injecting an identification chip in your pooch? If you live in the southern part of the UK, you won’t have a choice. Come 2016, English authorities will require all of the country’s pups to have embedded microchips, so they can be returned to their owners if ever they run astray. The United Kingdom’s Environment Department says some 60 percent of the country’s 8 million dogs already have the…

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Microsoft rumored to be taking a ‘meaningful look’ at Office for Linux

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As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr  Open source obsessive Michael Larabel says he has it on good authority that Microsoft is considering a native version of Office for Linux. Specifically, the company is taking a “meaningful look” at the idea, now that Linux is showing signs of becoming more of a player in the OS stakes. The information came to Larabel from an unnamed source during the Free Open-Source Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM) in Brussels, and this…

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ComScore: iPhone up to 36 percent of US phone share in December, Android stayed put Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas There’s been indications that Apple staged something of a comeback in the US during the fourth quarter, owing partly to an iPhone 5-related spike. ComScore’ssmartphone share data for December appears to bear that out. It estimates that the Apple claimed a 36.3 percent slice of the American market in the last month of 2012: that’s a noticeable boost from 35 percent in November, and two points up since the iPhone 5’s September arrival. Android…

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