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This holiday, cellphone makers and carriers are pushing some shiny new toys: phones with touch-sensitive screens like the one on the AppleiPhone.
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The Samsung Omnia from Verizon, based in Windows Mobile, will be in stores soon, selling for $249.
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Canadian Internet users are far more likely than Americans to use a social networking Web site, according to September figures released by the research firm comScore. That number is consistent with Canadians’ generally heavy use of sophisticated Internet features like online video.
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“We joke that it’s because of those long winter nights [...]

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In 2006, Thailand announced it was blocking access to YouTube for anyone with a Thai I.P address, and then identified 20 offensive videos for Google to remove as a condition of unblocking the site.
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The G Team: Nicole Wong, the “Decider”; [...]

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BARACK OBAMA may have to surrender his BlackBerry when he moves into the White House, in the interests of presidential security and confidentiality. But there is every sign that his administration will pursue a pro-technology agenda.
In speeches and policy statements, Mr. Obama has repeatedly emphasized a need to maintain America’s technology leadership in the [...]

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LET us pray that Steve will be receptive.
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Prayer-room operators at Unity Church.
On the Web site prayabout.com, Steve’s wife, whose online profile notes that she is a Catholic from St. Charles, Mo., asked other users of the site to submit prayers that her husband will listen to his [...]

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THE Tesla Roadster is an electric car that goes fast, looks sensational and excites envy. The seductive appearance, however, obscures some inconvenient truths: its all-electric technology remains woefully immature and don’t-even-ask expensive. If enough billionaires step forward to inject additional capital to keep the doors of its manufacturer, Tesla Motors, open, I’m happy for all [...]

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Cambridge, Mass.
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A smartphone experiment at M.I.T. will build a moving picture of interaction in a dorm. The phones generate digital trails to be beamed to a central computer.
HARRISON BROWN, an 18-year-old freshman majoring in mathematics at M.I.T., didn’t [...]

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From his terrace on Colaba Causeway in south Mumbai, Arun Shanbhag saw the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel burn. He saw ambulances leave the Nariman House. And he recorded every move on the Internet.
Mr. Shanbhag, who lives in Boston but happened to be in Mumbai when the attacks began on Wednesday, described the gunfire [...]

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NEVER-ENDING bad news about layoffs and unemployment has been sobering for job seekers like Flora Schmidt of Mineola, N.Y. But Ms. Schmidt, who is 73, faces an additional hurdle in landing a part-time job: a lack of computer skills. “If you want to do anything in the workplace, you must know computers,” she said. [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO — In a volatile year that has turned many Americans into armchair economists, here’s an important indicator to watch this holiday shopping season: how many people are lugging home big, flat-screen televisions?
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Shoppers comparing TVs on Friday at a Wal-Mart [...]

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