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Asustek joins tablet PC race; launches app store

Netbook PC pioneer Asustek Computer Inc has become the latest technology company to jump on the tablet PC bandwagon on Monday, joining cross-town rival Acer Inc in jostling with Apple Inc in the nascent sector.

Pakistan court lifts Facebook ban, restrictions remain

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A Pakistani court on Monday lifted a ban on social networking website Facebook which had carried a competition to draw the Prophet Mohammad, but access to any blasphemous material will remain blocked, a lawyer said.
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Bangladesh blocks Facebook over caricatures

Bangladesh has blocked the Facebook social networking site because of objectionable materials it contained about the Prophet Mohammad and the country's political leaders, a telecoms regulatory official said on Sunday. The government move followed publication of caricatures of the Prophet deemed hurtful to the religious sentiments of the country's majority Muslim population, the official said...
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Nokia top model N900 sales below 100,000: Gartner

Nokia sold less than 100,000 top-of-the-range N900 smartphones in its first five months on the market, researcher Gartner said, indicating it has yet to mount a serious challenge to the iPhone and Blackberry.
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Air NZ plans to let u text, email n fly - but quietly

AUCKLAND (Reuters Life!) - Air New Zealand is planning to let some passengers send text messages and emails mid-flight by the end of the year but fellow travelers need not worry -- phone calls will not be allowed.
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Buyers flock as Apple's iPad hits Asia

Apple Inc's iPad launched in overseas store shelves on Friday, with buyers storming Japanese and Australian shops to be among the first outside the United States to snap up the long awaited tablet PC.
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Apple's iPad hits Asia in international debut

Apple Inc's iPad hit overseas store shelves on Friday, with buyers storming Japanese and Australian shops to be among the first outside the United States to snap up the long-awaited tablet PC.
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Apple's iPad hits Japan in international launch

Apple Inc's iPad made its overseas debut on Friday, with buyers storming Japanese and Australian shops to be among the first outside the United States to snap up the long-awaited tablet PC.
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iPad makes splash in international debut

Apple Inc's iPad hit overseas store shelves on Friday, with buyers storming Japanese shops to be among the first in Asia to snap up the long-awaited tablet PC.
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AT&T: 40 percent of iPhone sales are to business users

AT&T Inc said on Thursday that 40 percent of its iPhone sales since the beginning of the year have been to business customers, suggesting that the phone is encroaching on an area dominated by Research in Motion's BlackBerry.
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Microsoft CEO unconcerned with Apple market cap

Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer was unperturbed a day after rival Apple Inc shot past his firm as the world's biggest tech company by market value and said his aim was to develop a good product line and earn more profits.
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Another death at China iPhone maker's plant

A 10th employee of iPhone-maker Foxconn jumped to his death late Wednesday, just hours after the company's chairman promised to make life better for employees at the sprawling production site in southern China.
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Prince of Persia leaps onto movie screens

Long before Jake Gyllenhaal mastered parkour and sword fighting to bring Prince Dastan to life in new movie Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, video gamers held sway over the acrobatic hero.
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Microsoft to focus on products and profits

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer was unperturbed a day after rival Apple Inc shot past his firm as the world's biggest tech company by market value and said his aim was on developing a good product line and making more products.
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Sony to launch e-reader in Japan, take on Apple

Sony Corp said on Thursday it would launch an e-reader and online content distribution service in Japan by year-end, taking on rival Apple Inc whose iPad hits shelves in the country on Friday.
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Another death hits China iPhone maker's plant

A tenth employee of iPhone-maker Foxconn jumped to his death late on Wednesday, just hours after the company's chairman promised to make life better for employees at the sprawling production site in southern China.
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Foxconn hit by 10th jumping death

An employee of iPhone-maker Foxconn jumped to his death late on Wednesday, Chinese state media reported, the tenth suspected suicide this year at the high-tech company's huge production base in southern China.
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Apple overtakes Microsoft as biggest tech company

Apple Inc shot past Microsoft Corp as the world's biggest tech company based on market value on Wednesday, the latest milestone in the resurgence of the maker of the iPhone, which nearly went out of business in the 1990s.
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U.S. probes Apple digital music dominance

The U.S. Justice Department is making preliminary inquiries into whether Apple Inc unfairly dominates the digital music market, according to three people whose companies have been contacted by regulators.
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Apple knocks off Microsoft as biggest tech

Apple Inc shot past Microsoft Corp as the world's biggest tech company as measured by market value on Wednesday, the latest milestone in the resurgence of the maker of the iPhone, which nearly went out of business in the 1990s.
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Penguin, Amazon resolve e-book pricing for Kindle

Penguin books said on Wednesday it reached a deal with Amazon.com to again sell its new titles for Amazon's Kindle e-book reader in another step in book publishers' ongoing efforts to find profitable pricing models for e-books.
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PersonalFinance: Consider a Roth IRA in 2010

Retirement savers who have spent the month of May watching their portfolios steadily drop can look on the bright side, at least a little bit: Declining stock prices offer them an opportunity to convert their traditional Individual Retirement Accounts into Roth IRAs, without getting too beat up by the tax man.
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BBC launches new iPlayer with links to rival sites

British state broadcaster the BBC launched a new version of its popular iPlayer Web video service with prominent links to rivals' sites, as it waits to see if the new coalition government will limit its funding or powers.
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China tech campus in damage control after suicides

Dressed in white, the traditional color of mourning in China, the father of 19-year-old Ma Xiangqian weeps outside the gates of a sprawling electronics complex. His wife and daughter kneel alongside.
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T-Mobile USA says CEO to leave in May 2011

T-Mobile USA, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG , said its chief executive, Robert Dotson, will leave the company in May 2011 and named Philipp Humm as its designated successor.
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Feds looking into Apple's tactics for music: report

The Justice Department is examining Apple Inc's tactics in the market for digital music and has talked to major music labels and Internet music firms, the New York Times said citing several people briefed on the conversations.

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