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The U.S. jobless rate is likely to stay high even once the nation exits recession some time in the next few months, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Sunday.

(Corrects in 13th paragraph proper name of GAO to Government Accountability Office)

The U.S. jobless rate is likely to stay high even once the nation exits recession some time in the next few months, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Sunday.

Toshiba America on Thursday unveiled a new line of LCD TV/DVD combo with stunning stainless style design for kitchen applications.

Hisense Electric Co Ltd, one of China's leading electronics and household appliances producers, said on Tuesday its profit rose nearly 90% in the first half of 2009 due to booming flat-panel TV sales.

LG Electronics Inc on Wednesday reported a surge in second-quarter operating profit as the strength of its mobile phone and TV businesses helped the company recover from the downturn faster than its peers.

An Indonesian television station on Monday named a likely suspect in the suicide bombings of two luxury hotels in Jakarta, saying he had school links to members of the radical Islamic group Jemaah Islamiah.

Former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, whose authoritative delivery of news events from the John F. Kennedy assassination to the Apollo moon landing and Vietnam War, made him the most trusted man in America, died on Friday at age 92.

CBS Corp and 17 other networks will participate in Comcast Corp.'s technical trial to offer television shows online, in an effort to give customers more options and more advertising possibilities to content owners.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has life-threatening pancreatic cancer, South Korean broadcaster YTN said on Monday, citing information gathered from Chinese and South Korean intelligence sources.

For years it was the talk of the wireless industry: beaming television to the world's four billion cellphones would be the icon of the digital age. Now, just three letters are hastening the demise of that vision.

Xinhua, China's state news agency, said on Wednesday it had launched a trial run for an international English-language television news service as part of a drive to boost the country's image and global media influence.

Maria Belen Chapur, an Argentinean woman with whom South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford admitted having an affair, broke her silence with a statement published on the CN5 TV station in Argentina on Sunday.

Microsoft and VivaKi, the digital arm of Publicis, on Thursday unveiled a broad cooperation deal spanning the fast-growing digital advertising sector to targeted television advertising.

Time Warner Inc and Comcast Corp have banded together to test ways to allow people to watch more TV shows over the Web, while making sure they keep paying for their traditional cable or satellite TV services.

Time Warner Inc and Comcast Corp have banded together to test ways to allow people to watch more TV shows over the Web, while making sure they keep paying for their traditional cable or satellite TV services.

Time Warner Inc and Comcast Corp have banded together to test ways to make it tougher for audiences to watch premium TV shows over the Web without paying for a cable or satellite service.

Actress Lindsay Lohan, who has been in the spotlight in recent years for personal troubles, may soon get a chance to bring that experience to a reality show.

Several staff at a Chinese television station were suspended from their jobs after footage of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests slipped past censors and was broadcast to the public, a human rights group said on Friday.

Global LCD TV sales volume is expected to increase by 21 percent this year, faster than a previous forecast, helped by strong sales in developed markets and China's stimulus spending program, speeding up the transition to flat-screen TVs, DisplaySearch said.

European TV Market Heats up despite Economic Crisis With the European Union’s economy showing signs of recovery, television sales in the region are expected to rise in 2009 as consumers continue to snap up LCD-TVs, according to iSuppli Corp.