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Today's Technology News: Nintendo's 9-month profit falls on strong yen House defeats bill to delay digital TV transition Chip maker Qualcomm's 1Q profit plunges 56 percent Microsoft founder's cable company in a debt bind Dude, Putin is so not getting a Dell AOL to cut 700 jobs: internal memo Nintendo cuts Wii sales target, raises DS target Sony's quarterly net profit tumbles 95 percent Jetty Web server flies to Eclipse Nintendo DS Software Device Back on Sale in Akihabara Mark Papermaster Will Join Apple as IBM Suit Settled Sony Q3 PlayStation 3 sales fall Nintendo's 9-month profit falls on strong yen Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:50 pm PST AP - Nintendo Co. says its net profit for the April-December period fell 18 percent as a strong yen cut into strong demand for its gaming products, forcing the company to slash its full year forecast. Full Story Top House defeats bill to delay digital TV transition Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:01 pm PST AP - Bucking the Obama administration, House Republicans on Wednesday defeated a bill to postpone the upcoming transition from analog to digital television broadcasting to June 12 — leaving an estimated 6.5 million U.S. households unprepared for the currently scheduled Feb. 17 switchover. Full Story Top Chip maker Qualcomm's 1Q profit plunges 56 percent Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:31 pm PST AP - Chip maker Qualcomm Inc. slashed its forecasts for revenue and operating income Wednesday as it reported its fiscal first-quarter income plunged 56 percent. Full Story Top Microsoft founder's cable company in a debt bind Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:41 pm PST AP - How do you lose $7 billion? Full Story Top Dude, Putin is so not getting a Dell Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:20 pm PST CNET - Many have by now learned that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is a bit, uh, prickly. But Michael Dell found out first hand at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday. Full Story Top AOL to cut 700 jobs: internal memo Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:56 pm PST Reuters - Time Warner Inc's AOL will cut about 700 jobs, or 10 percent of its workforce, as it copes with an advertising slump, in a move that could make the slimmed-down company more attractive to possible merger partners like Yahoo Inc. Full Story Top Nintendo cuts Wii sales target, raises DS target Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:08 pm PST Reuters - Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co Ltd said on Thursday it now expects to sell 26.5 million Wii game consoles in the year to March, down from its previous target of 27.5 million units. Full Story Top Sony's quarterly net profit tumbles 95 percent Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:34 pm PST AP - Sony Corp. said Thursday its net profit plunged 95 percent in the October-December quarter from a year earlier as poor sales of TVs, digital cameras and mobile phones sent its core electronics division into the red. Full Story Top Jetty Web server flies to Eclipse Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:27 pm PST InfoWorld - The wheels are in motion to make Jetty, an open source Java Web server, an Eclipse Foundation project, said Webtide, the main developer of Jetty. The software is used as a server for rich Internet and embedded applications. Full Story Top Nintendo DS Software Device Back on Sale in Akihabara Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:30 pm PST PC World - The R4 Revolution device that allows users to play cloned Nintendo DS software is openly back on sale in Tokyo's Akihabara electronics district, several months after legal action by Nintendo threatened to halt sales. Full Story Top Mark Papermaster Will Join Apple as IBM Suit Settled Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:38 am PST NewsFactor - IBM's lawsuit to block former Vice President Mark Papermaster from taking a position at Apple has been settled. Apple announced Papermaster will begin his new job in April as senior vice president of devices engineering, reporting directly to CEO Steve Jobs. Full Story Top Sony Q3 PlayStation 3 sales fall Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:27 pm PST Reuters - Sony Corp said on Thursday it sold 4.46 million units of its PlayStation 3 game console in October-December, down 9 percent from 4.9 million units a year earlier. Full Story Top

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