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Sprint to sell Palm Pre for $200 after rebate

Sprint Nextel Corp said it will sell Palm Inc's long-awaited Pre smartphone starting on June 6 for $199.99 with a two-year service agreement, in line with Apple Inc's iPhone price.

Hewlett-Packard outlook disappoints

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Hewlett-Packard Co gave a disappointing outlook for full-year revenue and said it will lay off another 2 percent of its workforce as consumers and businesses cut spending on computers, printers and services, sending its shares down about 5 percent.
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Facebook CEO says IPO a few years out

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hopes to eventually take his company public but said it won't be for a few years, and stressed that the world's largest online social network is in no immediate need of capital.
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HP shares slide after revenue outlook

Hewlett-Packard Co reported in-line results but issued a more pessimistic fiscal year revenue forecast, sending its shares down nearly 4 percent after hours.
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AT&T to offer cloud-based storage as a service

AT&T Inc, the biggest U.S. telephone company, plans to offer Web-based data storage services for corporations using cloud computing technologies developed by data storage equipment maker EMC Corp.
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SanDisk CEO upbeat on 2009

SanDisk Corp Chief Executive Eli Harari said 2009 could turn out to be significantly better than anticipated at the start of the year as big cutbacks in flash memory production bring balance back to an industry stung by oversupply.
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Symbian sees smartphone market up 12-15 percent

Sales of smartphones are set to grow 12-15 percent in 2009, said Lee Williams, chief of the Symbian Foundation, the consortium of companies around the world's most popular smartphone operating system.
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Miley Cyrus blasts cyber-bullies

Teen idol Miley Cyrus has a message for Internet critics calling her fat -- cyber-bullying can seriously scar people, leading them to hurt themselves.
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HP looks to stay steady in tough economy

Hewlett-Packard Corp , due to report results after the market close today, will be looking to showcase its steadiness amid weak corporate spending and a competitive landscape in a state of flux.
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Nokia to cut further 490 jobs

The world's top cellphone maker Nokia Oyj said on Tuesday it plans to cut a further 490 jobs as part of its global cost cutting program.
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Sony Ericsson to seek $135.5 million or more

Japanese electronics maker Sony Corp said on Tuesday its loss-making mobile phone joint venture with Sweden's Ericsson will likely seek at least 100 million euros ($135.5 million) in funds by March.
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AMD sees turning a profit by year's end

Advanced Micro Devices Inc expects its core business to make a net profit by year's end with the personal computer market potentially stronger in the second half, Chief Executive Dirk Meyer said on Monday.
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Marvell: 1 in 2 phones will soon be smartphones

Marvell Technology Group Ltd Chief Executive Sehat Sutardja said he expects multimedia-enabled smartphones to account for at least 50 percent of all cell phones in the next three to four years, and grow even more popular in the following years.
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Nvidia accuses Intel of unfair pricing

Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive officer of graphics chip maker Nvidia, called Intel's chip pricing unfair but said his company will not seek antitrust action against the world's largest chip maker for now.
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Nvidia accuses Intel of unfair chip pricing

Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive officer of graphics chip maker Nvidia, called Intel's chip pricing unfair but said his company will not seek antitrust action against the world's largest chip maker for now.
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Napster cuts price and adds 5 downloads

Digital music supplier Napster said on Monday it is slashing its monthly subscription price to $5 and adding downloads of songs to its streaming service in a bid to expand its customer base and compete with Apple Inc's iTunes.
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Twitter sees tools, not ads, for revenue

Twitter is working on various ways to make money from its fast-growing microblogging service, but advertising is an option that is not currently being considered.
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Twitter to launch business tools by year-end

Micro-blogging site Twitter plans to introduce tools and services by year-end to help businesses serve their customers, and may charge fees for such services, co-founder Biz Stone said on Monday.
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Cheaper iPhone with no data plan possible: analyst

Apple Inc could offer lower-cost versions of the iPhone, and without the obligatory monthly data service plan, in hopes of significantly boosting sales, according to one influential technology analyst.
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Wolfram Alpha undergoing public testing

The highly anticipated Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine underwent public testing over the weekend to see how well it will respond to a mainstream audience.
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Mobile chip firms see better second quarter

The wireless chip firms ARM and ST-Ericsson said they expect market to improve in the second quarter, helped by clients restocking, but said the rest of 2009 looked uncertain.
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AT&T wins court case on pre-1979 maternity leaves

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday for AT&T Inc in a dispute over how retirement benefits should be calculated for women who took maternity leaves before the federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act took effect in 1979.

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