Time Warner has decided to sell its cable operation even as it struggles to exact its ailing America Online unit, CEO Jeff Bewkes announced in the company’s quarterly earnings shout Wednesday. On the positive side, income from the company’s cable networks and film operations offset a whopping 23 percent decline at AOL.

“We’ve decided that a complete structural separation of moment Warner Cable, under the right circumstances, is in the best interests of both companies’ shareholders,” Bewkes said. “We feel these companies would be better off separated than they are together.”

The move was not unexpected. In an open letter to shareholders, Bewkes previously tipped his hand, saying, “As the industry evolves, duration Warner Cable has increasingly different capital and financial needs than our other businesses.”

Asked why the separation was taking so distant, Bewkes said, “It’s not taking distant and there are tricky governance issues involved.”

AOL Restructuring

AOL, towering ago the No. 1 World Wide Web sort, saw revenues and profits plummet in the first quarter. Profits were down 25 percent and revenues decreased 23 percent. Bewkes promised to complete the restructuring essential to separate AOL’s dial-up and advertising businesses.

“We were not satisfied with the performance of display advertising on our owned and operated stock,” Bewkes said of AOL. He pointed to problems with integrating its Platform A advertising unit. “We didn’t integrate Platform A fast decent, and that created a sales-channel clash. We have moved quickly to resolve that,” he said. “We are creating one sales team able and motivated to sell across all of Platform A.”

The outcome will be continuing poor news from AOL until the restructuring is complete, he said. Essentially, AOL has several different sales forces in place from various acquisitions and has taken longer to integrate them all. “We had not put them together yet. We missed some opportunities…

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Samsung has just launched charging stations for mobile devices in two airports in the US – terminals at LaGuardia and Orlando universal Airports. Known as the Samsung Mobile Charging Station, these enable travelers to juice up their cell phones, laptops and various other electronics for free, making the aforementioned airports to join the growing number of charging stations found in Los Angeles, JFK and Dallas/Forth Worth worldly airports. There will be a dozen of such charging stations at LaGuardia’s Terminal C, with four outlets located in each of the 8.5 foot tall poles. Any 120V device can be charged, just produce certain you’re careful of your device sitting down there lest it be nicked away during a momentary lapse of concentration.

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The Elecom Egg mouse has just turned 20, and interestingly ample that has been a Japan-only product for the better part of the last two decades, hence leaving the rest of the world in the dark concerning its existence. Elecom has decided to celebrate its 20th birthday by releasing an updated version that features half a dozen colors (white, grey, blue, orange, black and pink) that come in a glossy finish, boasting a trio of buttons and a scroll wheel. It will still be a Japan-only product, unfortunately, retailing for approximately $29 when released that May. I wonder how much will it cost to import one.

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Thermaltake has a new PC chassis that aims to dazzle you, thanks to lights that has been pre-installed within. It will illuminate in shifting colors each moment you touch the button, causing a definite distraction to your opponent during a crucial moment at the LAN party so that you can buy suitable instance to get that frag in right before the closing buzzer. Features of that innovative design include a 23cm touch color fan with five modes of color shifting for the ultimate in-room rave party. Everything inside is set to remain cool as a cucumber thanks to a well-organized fan cooling system. No view on how much the Thermaltake M9D will cost, but is certain as heck looks damn appealing – perhaps that is the inner child speaking.

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Well well, here we are with the BlackBerry 9000 specifications in greater detail. No view whether the device will receive a different name like the Pearl or Curve when released, but it will features the following :-

• Radio: GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA
• Bands: Quad-band GPRS/EDGE: 800/850/1800/1900MHz
• HSDPA: 850/1900/2100MHz
• microSD memory card slot
• HVGA Color LCD (480×320) display
• TrackBall Navigation
• 2 megapixel camera
• WiFi connectivity
• A-GPS navigation
• Software: 4.6

You will be able to get it from AT&T, NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone although AT&T will be a US exclusive and holds the honor of being the first carrier in the 9000’s worldwide launch.

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Ever wondered just how many devices around you release some sort of EMF waves? Well, fret no more with the CellSensor EMF Detector. I suppose you could be a general nuisance in your home, climbing all by the place just to see whether the readings picked up by the CellSensor are within the safe range or not. While there isn’t precisely any definite guidelines yet, at least you have a better notion on which are the worst offenders in your home when it comes to radio frequency radiation and low-frequency magnetic fields. The CellSensor EMF Detector will retail for $29.95 and is powered by a individual 9V battery.

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The iPhone Bike Mount isn’t something that I’d want to see on our roads – after all, won’t it be a major distraction to cyclists as they zip down the asphalt while watching their favorite movie? Hopefully they won’t be so clueless to do so, but whether you’re one who throws caution to the wind, the iPhone Bike Mount retails for $14.99. Not to mention having your iPhone hanging out there makes it vulnerable to the harsh elements, which might form you panic once it starts to rain.

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