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Apple expected to offer iPhone on new U.S. carriers within a year — Apple's worldwide single-carrier exclusivity model for each nation is seen as fleeting, as a new report suggests the iPhone could be available for carriers other than AT&T in the U.S. within a year.
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Munster on $10 iPhones, $30 TV subscriptions, moving beyond AT&T
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Challenging Microsoft With a New Technology — Microsoft's No. 1 rival is a household name, Google. But a strong candidate for No. 2 is a company that is scarcely known outside the technology industry: VMware. — “VMware is definitely a threat,” said Gary Chen, an analyst at IDC, a research firm.
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VMware to step up data center automation game — VMware on Monday will roll out a product family dubbed vCenter to automate data center tasks and manage to service level agreements. — The announcements will kick off VMworld 2009 in San Francisco this week.
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A Hired Gun for Microsoft, in Pursuit of Google — REDMOND, Wash. — Qi Lu knows as well as anyone just how difficult it is to take on Google. — For nearly a decade, Mr. Lu played a leading role in building Yahoo's Internet search and advertising technologies.
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Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text — Starting this fall, you'll have a new reason to trust the information you find on Wikipedia: An optional feature called “WikiTrust” will color code every word of the encyclopedia based on the reliability of its author and the length of time it has persisted on the page.
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SEC Investigating Apple Trading — Hey, have some investors been screwing around illegally with the shares of high-flying Apple, Inc., a superstar of the investment scene? — Apparently, the Securities & Exchange Commission is suspicious this may be the case and has kicked off an investigation …
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Spider-Man Meets Mickey Mouse: Disney Buying Marvel For $4 Billion In Stock, Cash — The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) is buying Marvel Entertainment (NYSE: MVL) and its 5,000-character roster for a cool $4 billion in stock and cash. Marvel CEO Ike Perlmutter will stay on to oversee …
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What's the real deal with 64-bit computing in Snow Leopard? — Is Snow Leopard a 64-bit operating system? Well, yes and no. — Computerworld - One of the biggest points of confusion around Apple's newest version of Mac OS X is about whether it's really a 64-bit or a 32-bit operating system.
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Asustek set to launch ultra-thin notebooks using new Intel CPUs — Asustek Computer plans to launch two new ultra-thin notebooks using Intel's upcoming 45nm Celeron 743 and SU2300 CPUs on September 7, 2009, according to industry sources. — The new models will initially ship to areas including Taiwan, China and Europe.
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Fox Juices ‘Fringe’ Re-Runs with Twitter Twist — Fox is juicing its repeats of the TV series Fringe with a new Twitter twist. The network will introduce this week “tweet-peats” — an on-screen scroll of Twitter messages from cast and producers that will appear during the episodes.
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Thousands call for Turing apology — Thousands of people have signed a Downing Street petition calling for a posthumous government apology to World War II code breaker Alan Turing. — Writer Ian McEwan has just backed the campaign, which already has the support of scientist Richard Dawkins.
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Hands-On: SanDisk Sansa Clip+ — SanDisk's tiny, popular Sansa Clip flash-based MP3 player gets upgraded with a microSD slot and a slightly different name. The Sansa Clip+ retains the same high quality audio and great value as the original, but the added storage slot gives the player even greater potential.
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Here come AMD's six-core, ultra-low-power Opteron EEs — There are three “rails” of wattage in AMD's architectural plan for its CPUs: its higher-performance SE line, its lowest-power EE line, and its hybrid HE line that trades some performance for power savings.
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Is ‘Friending’ in Your Future? Better Pay Your Taxes First — Tax deadbeats are finding someone actually reads their MySpace and Facebook postings: the taxman. — State revenue agents have begun nabbing scofflaws by mining information posted on social-networking Web sites …
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Tech21 iBand: Serious impact protection (proved on video) — Dragons' Den's Peter Jones must understand the anguish we all suffer when we drop our phones as his latest investment is in Tech21, a company that specialises in impact protection for mobile devices.
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ASUS Eee PC Netbook Roadmap Revealed — Someone by the name of JazzDoc, working in the “industry” has spilled the beans on the roadmap of the ASUS Eee PC netbooks. It reveals new Eee PC products including a 12-inch ION mini-notebook! and a few surprising EOLs:
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Verizon cuts BlackBerry Storm pricing to $50 — It seems like only yesterday that Verizon gave the general public a first taste of the BlackBerry Storm, RIM's first and currently only touchscreen phone. If you're a late adopter, we have awesome news for you: Verizon has reduced the price …
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iPhone app wins top honors at Microsoft sponsored event — Learn That Name, a new iPhone app designed to help people remember the names of people they bump into at events, won the most votes at Startup Weekend even though the 54-hour coding marathon was held on Microsoft's campus.
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Google May Hand Over Caribbean Journalists' IP Addresses — Google has reportedly sent a letter to a high-profile Caribbean investigative website called The TCI Journal saying it will supply the IP addresses used to access the Journal's primary GMail account unless the Journal supplies a legal counter-motion within the next two weeks.
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Samsung Application Store announced, the mobile mall gets a little more crowded — Oh, look, it's another place to buy bite-sized mobile apps, this one courtesy of Samsung. The company isn't exactly new to the whole application store thing, launching a little outlet for Nokia users earlier this year …
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Oyster Card: 10 Million + RFID Chips in London — The Oyster card is an RFID smart card used for electronic ticketing on London public transport services, notably the London Underground and buses. Other countries have similar smart cards. A couple that I've come across in real life recently …
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New Palm phones in Sprint inventory: P120 and C40 — Following up on the word of Palm devices appearing in Verizon's database, we've been sent the above screenshot of a Sprint inventory management system, showing not one, not two, but three plot-thickening Palm devices.
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