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Motorola to launch Android-based phone
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. technology giant
Motorola said its first Android-based mobile phone, the CLIQ, would
be available exclusively from T-Mobile sometime this fall.
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Watchdog says cell phone radiation varies
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- The Environmental Working Group
says U.S. consumers should be aware that certain cell phones emit
more radiation than others.
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Palm Unveils a Smaller Phone
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U.S. tech innovator Palm unveiled its newest smartphone
Wednesday, the Pixi -- slimmer than the Pre and geared toward youth,
reviewers said.
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Rival phone companies to merge in Britain
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BERLIN, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Deutsche Telekom and France
Telecom, rivals in the British mobile phone operations market, said
they would merge to form the country's largest phone company.
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Twitter opera to make limited debut
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LONDON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- The Royal Opera House in London
says it only played a 25-minute portion of the world's first Twitter
opera Saturday because of length concerns.
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Teen stops assault by texting for help
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LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga., Sept. 4 (UPI) -- A 16-year-old Georgia
girl says she avoided being sexually assaulted by text-messaging her
friends for help.
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Iowa event aimed at loudest car 'burp'
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- The upcoming "Crank It
Up" event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, offers a chance to create the
loudest so-called "burp" from a car's stereo system, a resident
says.
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EC to examine Oracle purchase
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BRUSSELS, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- The European Commission said it
would investigate Oracle's $7.4 billion proposal to buy technology
giant Sun Microsystems on antitrust concerns.
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O'Malley, Mikulski back phone-jamming act
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Two top Maryland officials said
Thursday they support a proposed federal act that would allow the
jamming of cell phone signals at U.S. prisons.
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Apple's Snow Leopard gets bruised in blogs
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CUPERTINO, Calif., Sept. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. computer maverick
Apple Inc.'s new operating system Snow Leopard remains a strong
seller despite ominous-sounding complaints, records show.
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Miscalculation caused GMail outage
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NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Google said Wednesday that a
capacity miscalculation was responsible for Tuesday's nearly
two-hour outage affecting Google Mail.
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Researchers working on robot caregivers
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CHICAGO, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- A basic prototype of a robotic
caregiver for the elderly might be a mere three years away,
researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago say.
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Analyst: iPhone could branch out next year
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CUPERTINO, Calif., Aug. 31 (UPI) -- U.S. technology giant
Apple may branch away from its exclusive iPhone arrangement with
AT&T in 2010, a senior industry analyst said.
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Congress considers airline cell phone ban
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- A flight attendants' union says
it supports a U.S. congressional bill to ban cell phone use by
passengers while a plane is in flight.
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Judge acquits mother in cyberbully case
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ST. LOUIS, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- A federal judge has officially
acquitted a Missouri mother in a cyberbullying case linked to the
2006 suicide of 13-year-old Megan Meier, authorities said.
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