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April 26, 2011 -- 3:00 p.m. EDT TECHNOLOGY Sony Plans 2 Tablets Sony plans to introduce two tablets later this year running Google's Android operating system, more than a year after Apple released the iPad. • Digits: Sony Shuts Down PlayStation Network • Japan Real Time: Sony's Tablet Unveiling • Photos: Sony's New Tablets • Tech Bets on Tablets     TECHNOLOGY Electronic Arts Executive Goes to Zynga Electronic Arts' chief operating officer, John Schappert, has left the videogames publisher to join Zynga as a senior executive.     EUROPE TECHNOLOGY France Télécom Tries to Bolster Revenue France Télécom is considering the sale of some of its European assets and is looking to seal more network-sharing deals.     ASIA TECHNOLOGY Nintendo 3-D Hand-Held Misses Target The president of Nintendo said sales of the new 3DS hand-held game machine have fallen short of expectations world-wide.     TECHNOLOGY Oracle's Finance Chief Resigns Oracle said its chief financial officer had resigned and will be immediately succeeded by the company's co-president, the latest executive switch at the large software maker.     TECHNOLOGY Nintendo Plans Wii Successor On the heels of posting its second straight year of profit decline, Nintendo said it will debut a new home console in 2012 to replace the Wii, the videogame industry's bestselling home gaming system. • Game Companies Tweak Business Models     TECHNOLOGY Apple, Google Pressed on Tracking Apple, Google and several other developers of mobile operating systems were sent letters by a House committee that oversees privacy issues, seeking more information about whether they are tracking users' locations. • The Battle Over Privacy     Digits Blog Digits Live Show: The Daily Deals Craze On today's show, we talk about Facebook's foray into daily deals, YouTube's plans to offer streaming movie rentals, and that elusive white iPhone. See Full Post Tech Diary: Get Flushed Kohler has created what it hopes to be a best-in-class toilet -- one that costs $6400. WSJ's Andy Jordan gives the smart-toilet a whirl. See Full Post Yelp Plans to Go Public, Despite Booming Private Market Yelp, the consumer-reviews website, is declining to seek another round of financing and instead has its sights set on going public. See Full Post READ MORE POSTS All Things Digital News and analysis about the digital revolution from Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. Latest Posts • AT&T Technology Chief Insists T-Mobile Deal Won't Stifle Innovation • Apple Battles "Mother of All Backlogs" With $11 Billion in Purchase Commitments • A "Probe in Your Pocket" Apple's Steve Jobs and Google's Andy Rubin Talk Smartphone Privacy at D8 and Dive See all recent posts.  All Things Digital RSS Feed Follow WSJ on Facebook and Twitter.

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 PERSONAL TECHNOLOGY

Laptop Buyer's Guide With the industry in flux and tablets on the rise, you'll want to take a modest approach to choosing a laptop. Walt Mossberg offers advice in his twice-yearly buyer's guide. • Video: Mossberg's Annual Guide to Laptops     It's In the Bag With the right high-tech sleeping sack, getting your outdoor Z's is as easy as jumping in.

 

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The Inventor of the Teleprompter Engineer Hubert Schlafly created the teleprompter, the device that helps actors and politicians to read scripts on television without looking down. He died April 20 at age 91.     Former Sony Head Pioneered First CD Norio Ohga, who died Saturday at age 81, led development of the world's first compact disc and oversaw Sony's evolution from a transistor-radio and tape-recorder maker into a consumer-electronics and entertainment giant.

 

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