Baidu targets Google with mobile search app
Top Chinese search engine Baidu.com has taken another swing at Google by launching a mobile service application it will pre-install on handsets, responding to fast growth in China’s mobile search market.
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Sept. 11 pager messages published online
The pager message is from a woman near a pay phone near 38th Street in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. The woman says her children were evacuated, but she’s trying to find them. She tells her husband she loves him.
Lenovo buys back phone unit with eye on mobile Web products
Lenovo will buy back the mobile phone unit that it spun off last year, reversing a move it originally made to focus on its core business in PCs, the company said.
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Adding a second monitor to your workstation can greatly improve your productivity. There’s nothing like having your Web browser running on one screen and, say, your word processor on another.
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China hopes Taiwan 3G test will boost homegrown technologies
China lauded Taiwan’s launch of a 3G mobile network using Chinese TD-SCDMA technology as a successful display of how they can work together on technical standards.
Taiwanese researchers show several flexible e-reader screens
Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) showed off a number of flexible display screen technologies in Taipei as part of a show promoting e-readers and e-paper.
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Twitter’s dirty laundry
Despite often being a waste of time, Twitter does has value, such as providing Iranians with an outlet during this past summer’s elections. Turns out Twitter can be used to keep you apprised of more domestic developments as well …
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