The worlds largest mobile phone maker said it wants “to put better messaging and social networking tools in the hands of more people around the world at affordable prices.”
The new Nokia C3, Nokia E5 and Nokia C6 handsets have full QWERTY keyboards, enable instant messaging and give access to e-mails. Their expected selling prices respectively [...]

Microsoft said its new touch-screen phones – a short, square-shaped handset called Kin One and a longer, more rectangular one called Kin Two – will be sold exclusively in the U.S. by Verizon Wireless. They are being made by Sharp Corp., which has produced Sidekick cell phones, whose software comes from Microsoft-owned Danger Inc.
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Several companies have announced their intention to launch similar music plans that let people listen to songs that are stored on remote computers and streamed to their smart phones wirelessly. Such music services, based on so-called “cloud” computing, are challenging Apple Inc.s system of having consumers buy and download tracks for playback on iPhones and [...]

In remarks Tuesday before the Council on Foreign Relations, Seidenberg cited a recent Wall Street Journal report that said Apple is working on a version of the iPhone that would be compatible with Verizons network.
But he did not confirm the report or give any further details Tuesday.
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The prank Web sites were rolled out Thursday in a collective effort to amuse, not confuse. In a way, its the Internets biggest holiday.
YouTube offered the curious option of watching videos in text – essentially a stream of code instead of images.
The comedy video site FunnyOrDie.com was revamped as Bieber or Die, its home page [...]

In this instance, a tribute site created for Alexis Pilkington, 17, of West Islip High School was the target of insulting messages after her death.
“I think its horrible. Its vicious. Its cruel. It upsets me as a parent,” Lorraine Kolar said as she left a memorial service Thursday for Pilkington.
Classmates, relatives and friends were incensed [...]

The man behind the massively popular video game franchise thinks so, saying hes working hard to turn Nintendo Co.s brand of handheld consoles into educational aids and teaching tools.
“That is maybe the area where I am devoting myself (the) most,” Japanese video game guru Shigeru Miyamoto told The Associated Press in an interview.
Speaking through a [...]

For more than a year, the illiterate mother appealed to various government departments in Fujian provinces Mingqin county, pleading for someone to take a closer look at the death of 25-year-old Yan Xiaoling that police blamed on an ectopic pregnancy.
Lin, 50, was sobbing outside a government office last summer when she met self-taught legal expert [...]

In the first criminal “sexting” case to reach a federal appeals court, the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. District Court of Appeals ruled against Wyoming County District Attorney Jeff Mitchell, whose predecessor had threatened to pursue felony charges against the girl unless she agreed to participate in a diversionary program and write an essay explaining what she [...]

The latest version of the Nexus One unveiled Tuesday could make the device a more serious challenger to the iPhone, which uses AT&T Inc.s 3G network as its main communications channel in the United States.
The Nexus One had been running on AT&Ts slower networks since Google began selling the handset in early January. The switch [...]