Soccer-Corinthians taking European style to Club World Cup

Dec 11 (Reuters) - The Corinthians side that will feature in the Club World Cup in Tokyo on Wednesday has the ammunition to ambush European champions Chelsea if the two teams get through to Sunday's final as expected. The Brazilians won South America's version of the Champions League at a relative canter in July, going unbeaten for 14 Libertadores Cup games and conceding just four...

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UPDATE 2-Soccer-Ligue 1 summaries

Dec 11 (Infostrada Sports) - Summaries from the Ligue 1 matches on Tuesday Lille 2 Marko Basa 55, Dimitri Payet 83 Toulouse 0 Halftime: 0-0; Attendance: 35,264 - - - Nice 1 Dario Cvitanich 66pen Stade Rennes 0 Red...

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UPDATE 2-Soccer-Ligue 1 summaries

Dec 11 (Infostrada Sports) - Summaries from the Ligue 1 matches on TuesdayLille 2 Marko Basa 55, Dimitri Payet 83Toulouse 0Halftime: 0-0; Attendance: 35,264- - -Nice 1 Dario Cvitanich 66penStade Rennes 0Red Card: Jean-Armel Kana-Biyik 53, Yassine Jebbour 65Halftime: 0-0; Attendance: 8,057- - -Valenciennes 0Paris St Germain 4 Zlatan Ibrahimovic 28,49,54, Ezequiel Lavezzi 82Halftime: 0-1; Attendance:...

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Soccer-English League Cup 5th round summaries

Dec 11 (Infostrada Sports) - Summaries from the English League Cup 5th Round first leg matches on TuesdayBradford City (IV) 1 Garry Thompson 17Arsenal 1 Thomas Vermaelen 88Halftime: 1-0; Attendance: 23,971- - -Norwich City 1 Steve Morison 19Aston Villa 4 Brett Holman 21, Andreas Weimann 78,83, Christian Benteke 90Halftime: 1-1; Attendance: 26,...

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UPDATE 1-Soccer-English League Cup 5th round results

Dec 11 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the English League Cup 5th Round first leg matches on Tuesday5th RoundTuesday, December 11Bradford City (IV) - Arsenal 1-1 (halftime: 1-0, 90 mins: 1-1, penalty shootout: 3-2)Bradford City win 3-2 on penalties.Norwich City - Aston Villa 1-4 (halftime: 1-1)Next Fixtures (GMT):Wednesday, December 12Swansea City v Middlesbrough (II) (19...

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RIM offers biggest clients incentives to adopt BB10

TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion Ltd on Thursday outlined a program of incentives to encourage its biggest customers to run its soon-to-launch line of BlackBerry 10 devices, seeking to persuade corporations and government users to stick with its secure smartphones.RIM is betting that the devices, to be launched on January 30, will revive its fortunes. That will depend to a large extent on the...

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Windows Phone shipments could surge by 150% in 2013

2013 might go down as the year that Windows Phone finally hits the mainstream. A new study from Digitimes Research predicts Microsoft (MSFT) is expected to see the highest increase in shipments among all mobile device operating systems next year as Windows Phone devices, including both Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 models, will see shipments increase 150% to 52.5 million units, good for a 6.1%...

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iPhone 5′s lack of NFC called ‘a serious blow for the technology’

Phil Schiller, Apple’s (AAPL) senior vice president of worldwide marketing has said before that the iPhone 5 doesn’t have NFC because “it’s not clear that NFC is the solution to any current problem.” While most Android smartphones happily tout that NFC’s wireless capabilities are the future of mobile payments, Juniper Research analyst Dr. Windsor Holden  wrote in his latest report that NFC growth...

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Apple and Samsung return to court to battle over $1 billion verdict

Samsung (005930) and Apple (AAPL) on Thursday return to a San Jose, California courtroom to once again square off in front of U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh regarding an earlier ruling from August, the Wall Street Journal reported. The South Korean vendor is looking to have the federal judge throw out or soften the $1.05 billion in damages it was hit with for infringing upon Apple’s protected...

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The best smartphones of 2012: Sprint

Sprint (S) is featured in the third installment of our series and while it doesn’t sell quite as many smartphones as its rivals Verizon Wireless (VZ) and AT&T (T), it offers smartphone users something the big-two do not: Truly unlimited data with no caps and no throttling. That unlimited data is somewhat slow in most parts of the country since Sprint’s  LTE network is in its infancy, but...

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