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Woman fears police will use nude pix
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ROMEOVILLE, Ill., Sept. 3 (UPI) -- An Illinois woman police say is a suspect in a car vandalism case says she fears what officers will do with the nude pictures on her confiscated cellphone.
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Rev. plans cellphone blessing
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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- A Canadian Anglican reverend is asking parishioners to bring in their cellphones and other technological gadgets to receive a special blessing.
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Apple bites into rental business
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CUPERTINO, Calif., Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs made it official Wednesday: The Cupertino, Calif., computer giant soon will offer 99-cent TV show rentals on iTunes.
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Quest for more computer memory ongoing
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NEW YORK, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say new technologies may bypass barriers to the miniaturization of computer memory, vital to the consumer electronics revolution.
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Dress doubles as cellphone
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LONDON, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- A London fashion company said it has developed a dress that doubles as a cellphone using gesture recognition software.
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Intel to buy Infineon's wireless division
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. microchip giant Intel said Monday it would purchase European chip maker Infineon's wireless product division for $1.4 billion.
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Paul Allen alleges patent infringement
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SEATTLE, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen sued in Seattle Friday, contending Apple, Google and others are profiting illegally from patents he owns, court records show.
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Google calls hit 1 million on Day 1
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Calls made computer to mobile phone through Google's new phone system topped 1 million calls on its first day of use, PC World reported Friday.
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British man sentenced in pedophile sting
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MELBOURNE, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- A British man has been sentenced to four years in prison for publishing up to 100,000 pictures of sexual child abuse on Facebook, officials say.
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Cuba ends smoking subsidy to help economy
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HAVANA, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Cuba will end its monthly handouts of subsidized cigarettes to 2.5 million people as part of a plan to modernize the economy, the government said.
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Microsoft, Yahoo! integrate searches
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REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. technology giants Microsoft and Yahoo! said the partnership step of launching Bing engine searches from Yahoo! Web sites was up and running.
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Blacks and Hispanics big cellphone users
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NEW YORK, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Blacks and Hispanics are the groups most likely to use cellphones for talking and texting, The Nielsen Co. reports.
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iPhone app catches burglars on camera
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DALLAS, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- A Dallas man said he was able to catch burglars on camera from 1,400 miles away with the help of a $4.99 iPhone application.
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3Par shares jump in bidding war
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NEW YORK, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. computer giant Hewlett-Packard jumped forcefully into the bidding game for data storage firm 3Par Inc., offering $1.5 billion for the firm.
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iPad may boost e-textbook sales in U.S.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. software developer says the iPad and similar tablet computers have all the makings of a breakthrough in the adoption of digital college textbooks.
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