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Nokia bolsters phone lineup

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Nokia on Wednesday bolstered its smartphone line-up to better compete with Apple and said a $820 laptop will lead its foray into the fiercely-competitive PC market.
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Saudi prince spoke to bomber on phone before attack

The Saudi interior ministry on Tuesday issued a recording of a telephone conversation between the prince who heads the kingdom's anti-terrorism campaign and an Al Qaeda militant who tried to assassinate him days later.
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The Chocolate Phone, LG BL40

Seoul-based LG Electronics on Friday unveiled details of its new Black Label Series chocolate phone, a thin and fine attractive touch screen handset.
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Phone call to NYSE set off Braikan fraud probe

A phone call to the New York Stock Exchange from an investor worried that he'd just been duped helped spark a chain of events early last week that led U.S. authorities to file fraud charges against a Kuwaiti financier, who was later found dead in his home.
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Growing Chinese phone users dissatisfy with domestic operators

The number of phone users in China has surpassed billion during the first half of 2009, which, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), is boosted by the launch of the third-generation (3G) network. However, most of the users are not satisfied with their current domestic operators.
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Murdoch's UK arm denies phone hacking allegations

The British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp denied on Friday allegations its journalists had hacked into the phones of thousands of public figures, following days of damning headlines.
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Telecom firms back standard phone charger in Europe

Top mobile telephone suppliers have agreed to back an EU-wide harmonization of phone chargers, the European Commission said on Monday, hailing the pact as good news for consumers and the environment.The agreement by Nokia, Sony Ericsson and other industry majors will mean phones compatible with standard charging devices are available in Europe from next year, said the EU executive, which has pushe...
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Google Voice coming soon

Google will soon roll out a new service called Google Voice that is built with technology obtained through its 2007 acquisition of Internet telephony company GrandCentral.
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Disaster-prone Bangladesh trials cell phone alerts

Tens of thousands of mobile users in Bangladesh's flood and cyclone-prone areas will now receive advance warning of an impending natural disaster through an alert on their cell phones, a government official says.
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T-Mobile to sell new Google phone in August

T-Mobile USA will begin selling a new smartphone using Google Inc's Android operating software in August, facing off against high-end devices such as Apple's latest iPhone and the Palm Pre.
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IRS: cell phone tax notice to save firms money

An effort by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to revamp the way employers and workers account for personal cell phone use is intended to save companies money, an IRS official said on Friday.
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INQ Mobile to roll out Twitter-phone

Cell phone maker INQ Mobile plans to introduce a Twitter phone in time for the Christmas sales season, hoping to benefit from surging interest in the micro-blogging service, INQ's head told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Kenya to enact laws regulating mobile phone banking

Kenya is introducing several laws to strengthen its financial sector as new products such as mobile phone banking fill the market in the wake of technological advances, its finance minister said on Monday.

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