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July 26, 2010
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Why the $35 Tablet Will Never Exist Why does the media fall for the same hoax again and again?
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Windows Phone 7 Tablet: Still Possible Analysis: Instead of grafting Windows onto smaller form factors, maybe Microsoft should grow the small-platform software to run well on a larger device.
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Android: On Apps, Kill Switches, and the Future Analysis: Google's open-source system allows faster time to market; do Android phones take advantage of this edge over iPhone?
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San Francisco's Cell Phone Radiation Law Goes Wrong Let's hope the CTIA prevails in its challenge of a new order to post radiation levels of cell phones -- it's too much fuzzy information.
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iPhone 4 Antenna Woes Inspire Entrepreneurs Opportunists are offering their own alternative solutions to Apple's iPhone 4 antenna challenge.
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Wikileaks Offers Data to Map Afghan War Screw-Ups The Web enables easy sharing, mashups of military data, the latest released by the sunshine site.
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Windows Phone 7: Why the Missing Features Matter The unique and innovative aspects of the Windows 7 platform are overshadowed by the glaring omission of multitasking and copy and paste functionality.
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Japan Pushes High-tech in World Cup Bid Japan is pushing high-tech with ultra-realistic holographic broadcasts of games and a virtual camera technology in its 2022 World Cup bid.
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Android Market: Pros and Cons of Carrier Billing Google announced changes to the Android developers agreement which suggest that wireless carriers will soon be able to manage billing for Android Market app purchases.
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Baidu Looks to Embed Search Box in Chinese Mobile Phones Baidu is aiming to put its own search box across the screens of cell phones in China as part of its ongoing efforts to fight Google in the mobile market
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Google Apps Project Delays Highlight Cloud Security Concerns The city of Los Angeles Google Apps project is behind schedule due to delays caused by concerns over entrusting confidential information to the cloud.
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