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The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 14, 2009

Dell says it will sell smart phones

Dell Inc. confirmed Friday its long-rumored plans to get into smart phones, a new business for the computer maker that is being led by Motorola Inc.'s former mobile phone chief.

Dell said it will distribute its Mini 3 smart phone through China Mobile and Claro, a Brazilian wireless carrier. Dell did not say when its phones would be launched in the United States, though the company did say it has agreements with AT&T and Verizon Wireless.

Comcast Corp. could buy NBC Universal

Eight decades after pioneering the concept of broadcasting, NBC is on the verge of a startling move that illustrates broadcast television's decline.

Cable TV operator Comcast Corp. is expected to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal, perhaps as early as next week, bringing the network of Johnny Carson, Jerry Seinfeld and Bob Hope under the corporate control of the company that owns the Golf Channel and E! Entertainment Television.

Former Madoff employees charged

Two former employees for Bernard Madoff programmed an old IBM computer to generate false records that concealed the crooked financier's massive Ponzi scheme and were given hush money when they threatened to stop lying, federal prosecutors said Friday.

The programmers, Jerome O'Hara, of Malverne, N.Y., and George Perez, of East Brunswick, N.J., were arrested Friday at their homes on charges including conspiracy and falsifying records.

A wire report

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