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Text messages are approved for nationwide alert system
(April 10) Federal regulators approved a plan to create a nationwide emergency alert system using text messages delivered to cellphones.
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Nokia wants an iPhone too
(April 10) Apple could be called the "pied-piper" of some technologies. First it was their iPod blueprint that was vehemently being aped by companies big and small; now it's the turn of their multi-touch interface iPhone to pull crowd.
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The bearable lightness of HP's 2133 Mini-Note PC
(April 9) - HP announced a $499 laptop today targeted at the education market. The HP 2133 Mini-Note PC seems remarkably underfeatured to me for the price: it has no DVD or even CD drive; no hard drive (a 4 GB flash module is included); an 8.9-inch display; just 512 MB of RAM, and the Linux operating system (SuSE Enterprise Desktop 10). What gives?
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Yahoo launches video on Flickr
(April 9) Users can upload up to 90 seconds of footage, with a maximum size of 150 MB, from any recording device.
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T-Mobile slashes iPhone price in Europe
(April 4) T-Mobile has slashed its price in Germany for the most basic version of Apple Inc's iPhone to 99 euros ($155) from 399 euros ahead of the expected launch of a new model.
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Qualcomm aims to expand TV service
(April 4) Qualcomm Inc. saidthat it will use the radio spectrum it won in a recent government auction to double the capacity of its mobile television service on swaths of both coasts.
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FBI reports internet crime at all-time high
(April 4) Internet crime is at an all time high, according to figures from the FBI, which said that losses totalled $240m last year.
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ITunes overtakes Wal-Mart in music sales
(April 3) Apple Inc.'s iTunes online music store vaulted past Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in February to become the top overall music retailer in the U.S., a market research firm said Thursday.
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Comcast goes full throttle with experimental wideband roll-out
(April 3) - Comcast has chosen the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn., market as the testing ground for a new high-speed Internet service that brings in data over 20 times quicker than a typical broadband connection. The catch: For now, it costs subscribers $150 per month.
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Making Windows Mobile more like Vista
(April 3) As Apple and Google are closing in on Windows Mobile, Velocity Mobile sees a big advantage for Microsoft's mobile OS: the hundreds of millions of desktop PC users who already know Windows.
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