Sony, Kyocera close some San Diego ops due to fires
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Japanese tech firms Sony Corp  and Kyocera Corp  said they have halted some production in the San Diego, California, area because of fires raging in the southern part of the state.
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Many Southern California companies shut down or pared back operations on Tuesday as more than a dozen wildfires raged out of control in the region.
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California fire evacuees and their most precious possessions, photographed by Jeffrey Lamont Brown at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego
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In response to an increasingly difficult retail environment, Sprint Nextel says about 4,000 employees will be laid off and about one out of every eight retail stores will close.
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The biggest U.S. mobile operators, AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless, will close down their analog networks on Monday.
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WHAT IS HAPPENING: Cell-phone carriers including AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Alltel will be turning off their analog networks starting Feb. 19, 2008.
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Service interruptions reported across the U.S.
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In San Diego, displaced employees might affect production at some of the companies you own.
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California wildfires created an electricity "island" of San Diego County on Wednesday as one major power transmission link to the U.S. West grid was shut and the other was flickering on and off, said San Diego Gas & Electric Co.
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Sprint Nextel is laying off about 4000 employees and closing retail outlets after losing more than 100,000 customers in the last quarter.
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CompUSA has decided to close 126 of the 225 electronics stores it operates in the U.S. and Puerto Rico as part of a massive realignment aimed at cutting costs.
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Following Sony&#39;s surprising exit from the US PDA handheld market earlier this summer, three other companies have announced their intentions to withdraw from the US handheld market.
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Caught in a fierce competitive market populated by BlackBerries, iPhones and other innovative devices, Palm announced this weekend that it will close most of its retail stores.
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RANCHO BERNARDO, Calif., Oct. 24 -- Strange things happened on Cloudesly Drive. Houses simply disappeared. At one address, there is a swimming pool, transformed into a black lagoon. There is a metal lump, still warm to the touch, that appears to have been the dishwasher. What else? A pile of charred...
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By Helen Gao, The San Diego Union-Tribune  Feb. 23--While two new High Tech High charter schools are on track to  open in Chula Vista and San Marcos later this year, a sister campus in the Bay  Area will probably shut down in June because of low enrollment and the sale of  its campus.
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Japan's ailing Sanyo Electric Co. has torn up its forecast for a return to the black this year as it axed 2,200 more jobs and flagged a possible sale of its cellphone business amid fierce competition.
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Qualcomm and other high-tech firms in southern California are holding their own amidst the wildfires.