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Zipper Google Doodle Joins ‘Do A Barrel Roll’ And 11 Other Google ‘Easter Eggs,’ Tricks [PHOTOS]

In honor of the 132nd birthday of the inventor of the zipper, Gideon Sundback, Google unveiled its latest “Easter Egg,” a full page zipper than unzips to reveal search results on the search page for Sundback, joining other “Easter eggs” like “do a barrel roll.” By simply logging on to Google’s homepage, users can unzip a zipper with their cursor and watch as the full screen unzips to search results for Sundback. For the many amused by the latest trick, this is not the first time Google has le...
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Chinese investors scramble for a bite of Apple

China's rigid capital rules ban its citizens from investing directly in Apple Inc but that's not keeping them from seeking a piece of the iPhone maker's success by buying shares in its suppliers - and even companies rumored to be suppliers.
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Toshiba drops out of bidding for Elpida: sources

Toshiba Corp is no longer bidding for bankrupt Japanese chip maker Elpida Memory, sources close to the talks said, leaving a handful of foreign firms including SK Hynix and Micron Technology in the race to take over the company.
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Key investor snubs Vodafone's $1.7 billion CWW bid

British mobile operator Vodafone's deal to buy Cable & Wireless Worldwide for an agreed 1.04 billion pounds ($1.7 billion) hit a hurdle on Monday when CWW's top shareholder declined to back a bid it considered too low.
iOS 5.1 Jailbreak: How To Use RedSn0w 0.9.10b8 To Backup Your iPhone’s Unlock Activation Ticket

iOS 5.1 Jailbreak: How To Use RedSn0w 0.9.10b8 To Backup Your iPhone's Unlock Activation Ticket [VIDEO]

After Chinese researcher named Loktar_Sun discovered a method that allows unlocking any model of the iPhone on any baseband with the help of the Subscriber Artificial Module (SAM) by Sam Bingner, iPhone Dev Team also joined the party by releasing RedSn0w 0.9.10b8, an updated version of the jailbreak utility, allowing users of the SAM unlock tool to back up their activation tickets for safekeeping.
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Obama to cite new technologies in rights abuses: report

President Barack Obama will issue an order on Monday to allow imposition of sanctions on foreign nationals who use new technologies such as cell-phone tracking and Internet monitoring to help carry out human rights abuses, The Washington Post reported on Monday.
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China's ZTE to sell 100 million smartphones a year by 2015

China's ZTE Corp, which launched its first basic mobile phone in Africa little more than 10 years ago, said it could be shipping 100 million smartphones a year by 2015, as it looks up-market to reverse a decline in its handset margins.
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Pushing smartphones, China's ZTE sees better margins

China's ZTE Corp, which launched its first basic mobile phone in Africa little more than 10 years ago, said on Monday it would sell more than 30 million smartphones this year, launch two phone-cum-tablet 'phablets' and reverse a decline in its handset profit margins.
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China's ZTE aims to reverse handset profit margin decline

ZTE Corp, China's second-largest telecommunications equipment maker, said on Monday that it expects to reverse a decline in handset profit margins this year and forecasts global sales of its smartphones to more than double from 15 million sold in 2011.
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Exclusive: BlackBerry maker hires law firm for restructuring

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has hired law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP to work out a restructuring plan that could include selling assets, seeking joint ventures or licensing patents, people briefed on the matter said.
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Google execs, director Cameron in space venture

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and billionaire co-founder Larry Page have teamed up with Avatar director James Cameron and other investors to back an ambitious space exploration and natural resources venture, details of which will be unveiled next week.
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AMR unions want to take a chance on US Air merger

Labor groups at bankrupt American Airlines said on Friday they support a potential merger with rival US Airways Group Inc in a deal they say would save more jobs than a plan by parent AMR Corp to reorganize as a stand-alone carrier.

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