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Best Buy to trial launch Palm Pre on June 7th — Well lookie here. This one isn't 100% confirmed just yet but a ninja hit us up with what could be some pretty juicy launch details for the rumor mill's favorite handset du jour, the Palm Pre. Here we go — according to our ninja …
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9 to 5 Mac, IntoMobile, GPS Obsessed, PhoneDog.com, Electronista, Gizmodo, Engadget Mobile, prethinking.com and PreCentral.net
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NYT: Big-screen Kindle coming from Amazon “as early as this week” — Go ahead and grab the salt shaker, 'cause this one's nowhere near carved in stone... or is it? A breaking report from The New York Times has it that Amazon will introduce a larger version of its Kindle e-reader …
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Looking to Big-Screen E-Readers to Help Save the Daily Press — The iPod stemmed losses in the music industry. The Kindle gave beleaguered book publishers a reason for optimism. — Now the recession-ravaged newspaper and magazine industries are hoping for their own knight in shining digital armor …
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Larry Page Delivers Powerful Commencement Speech At U of M [Video] — Earlier today I had the privilege to hear Google co-founder Larry Page speak at the University of Michigan. I found his commencement speech to be quite moving. He talked about how his parents first met at the University …
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Boston Globe Threatens Unions With Closure Notice Unless Midnight Deadline Met — The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) jacked up the pressure in Boston tonight with a warning that it plans to file federal notice Monday that it is closing the Boston Globe—unless its four major unions …
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Why text messages are limited to 160 characters — Credit: Lori Shepler / Los Angeles Times — Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat at his typewriter, tapping out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper. — As he went along …
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Technologies Like Facebook, Twitter and Cellphones Affect Dating Compatibility — He Twitters but She Texts? Sigh. These Days, High-Tech Options Can Short-Circuit a Romance. — Scarlett Johansson, left, with Drew Barrymore, whose character, Mary, gets excited when a man asks her out via MySpace in “He's Just Not That Into You.”
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Controversial Web ‘Framing’ Makes a Comeback — When Digg introduced a new toolbar in early April that added a thin strip - known as a ‘frame’ - to the top of pages submitted to Digg, a publisher outcry forced the social media aggregator back down. It modified the new DiggBar so that only logged …
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Sprint may outsource network to Ericsson: report — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp (S.N) is in final negotiations to outsource management of its cellular network to Telefon AB LM Ericsson (ERICb.ST) and transfer 5,000 to 7,000 U.S. employees to the equipment vendor …
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When the Cellphone Teaches Sex Education — THE special cellphone, set on vibrate, begins to whir. Throughout North Carolina, anonymous teenagers are texting questions to it about sex. — “If you take a shower before you have sex, are you less likely to get pregnant?” asks one.
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Corporate Tweets and the SEC: Sometimes It's Better To Keep Your Mouth Shut — Last year, I covered the landmark SEC decision to recognize corporate blogs and potentially other forms of Social Media as a recognized form of meeting public disclosure requirements under Regulation FD (Fair Disclosure) - in some cases.
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What The Trend: Finally, A Way To Make Sense Of Twitter Trends — For sure, Twitter Trends give visitors a great general overview of what the app's user base of millions are talking about the most at any given time, giving some insight in what's happening around the world.
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Jacqui Smith's secret plan to carry on snooping — The home secretary has vowed to scrap a ‘big brother’ database, but a bid to spy on us all continues — SPY chiefs are pressing ahead with secret plans to monitor all internet use and telephone calls in Britain despite an announcement by Jacqui Smith …
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