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As promised, Sony on Saturday launched its first flagship retail store. The two-storey Sony Store Nagoya showcases most of Sony's home lineup and is built to emulate the success Apple has had with stores like its Ginza location. Besides bright, open areas, it includes a designer (though not glass) staircase and even a Genius Bar-style service, nicknamed backStage, for getting technical support and training....

AP - It was a purchase to be remembered.

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Description: Shot straight down from about 12 inches above the ice on Dream Lake in RMNP. These are natural occurring ice patterns. The only processing is a high contrast curves layer and sharpening.

Posted by: wcrosman

Description: Shot straight down from about 12 inches above the ice on Dream Lake in RMNP. These are natural occurring ice patterns. The only processing is a high contrast curves layer and sharpening.

Posted by: wcrosman

Description: Shot straight down from about 12 inches above the ice on Dream Lake in RMNP. These are natural occurring ice patterns. The only processing is a high contrast curves layer and sharpening.

Posted by: wcrosman

Description: Shot straight down from about 12 inches above the ice on Dream Lake in RMNP. These are natural occurring ice patterns. The only processing is a high contrast curves layer and sharpening.

Posted by: wcrosman

Description: Shot straight down from about 12 inches above the ice on Dream Lake in RMNP. These are natural occurring ice patterns. The only processing is a high contrast curves layer and sharpening.

Posted by: wcrosman

Description: Shot straight down from about 12 inches above the ice on Dream Lake in RMNP. These are natural occurring ice patterns. The only processing is a high contrast curves layer and sharpening.

Posted by: wcrosman

Description: Shot straight down from about 12 inches above the ice on Dream Lake in RMNP. These are natural occurring ice patterns. The only processing is a high contrast curves layer and sharpening.

Reuters - U.S. regulators will announce a major Internet policy this week to revolutionize how Americans communicate and play, proposing a dramatic increase in broadband speeds that could let people download a high-definition film in minutes instead of hours.

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Description: Along the trail to Dream Lake early in the morning.

AFP - Australia Sunday defended its plan to block some Internet content, such as that featuring child sex abuse or advocating terrorism, after a media rights watchdog warned it may hurt free speech.

AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for regulation of the Internet on Saturday while demanding authorities crack down on a critical news Web site that he accused of spreading false information.

Reuters - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who is criticized by media freedom groups, called on Saturday for regulation of the Internet and singled out a website that he said falsely reported the murder of one of his ministers.

The competition between Apple and Google has reached "incendiary" levels that aren't likely to cool down anytime soon, a detailed story from within the two companies has shown. While signs of the split have become increasingly public, a Bay Area investor claims that the two sides, particularly Apple, are getting "emotional" as it becomes a personal battle between Apple CEO Steve Jobs and his Google equivalent, Eric Schmidt. At Apple, Jobs' infamous attack on Google at a post-iPad town hall has been followed by repeated shots at Android in d...

RIM's first touchscreen slider is bound at least for Sprint but may have problems on its way if a leak today proves accurate. Now called the 9900 in GSM form and 9930 for CDMA networks, the phone is reportedly being tested with Sprint branding but has had an unusually high 80 percent failure rate in early testing. BGR has heard that the only other BlackBerry to suffer similar problems early on was the Pearl Flip....

PC World - If you're one of the folks (or as others have said, "idiots") who have already decided to hand over a few Benjamins for an iPad pre-order, chances are you haven't given much thought to what happens if your battery goes bad. Rest assured that Apple is one step ahead of you.

PC World - Apparently we aren't the only species to prefer the crisp, smooth picture of an HDTV compared to that from one of those old CRT sets of yesteryear.

Apple may have moved nearly 120,000 iPads in just its first day of pre-orders, an estimate by private analysts at the AAPL Sanity board suggests. After excluding the 16,500 average orders on a given day, the collective has used the intervals between order numbers over 19.5 hours to estimate that about 119,987 iPads should have sold during that period. The statistic doesn't include those who simply reserved a unit in-store and potentially puts the actual launch day tally considerably higher....

PC World - The Apple iPad has been available for pre-order for more than 24 hours now. Initial demand seems promising, although not everyone has embraced the concept of dedicating $500 or more to be an early adopter of a device that nobody really has all the details on just yet.