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PC Magazine - If you haven't yet gotten around to buying a Wii Classic Controller or old GameCube pad (for Virtual Console use, Smash Bros., what have you), then you might want to do so quickly.
AP - TextBuyIt, a recently launched shop-by-cell phone service from Amazon.com Inc., seemed like the ultimate comparison shopping tool — perfect for an unabashed bargain hunter like myself.
AFP - British mobile phone giant Vodafone said Wednesday it would repurchase shares worth 1.0 billion pounds (1.3 billion euros, 2.0 billion dollars) and stressed that it was undervalued.
Macworld.com - Griffin Technology on Wednesday announced Lucky 7 Slots for the iPhone, a game that simulates casino slot machine action. It costs $1.99.
AP - AT&T Inc.'s second-quarter financial results Wednesday indicated that the weak economy is catching up to the nation's largest telecommunications company, but investors were largely satisfied with what they saw.
Reuters - The German Federal Patent Court ruled
on Wednesday that a Qualcomm GSM patent asserted in a case
against the world's top cell phone maker Nokia was invalid.
InfoWorld - Ubuntu Linux Founder Mark Shuttleworth urged development of a Linux desktop to rival what Apple has done in this space and aired a vision of software changing the world.
Reuters - Chinese police have arrested a
prominent Internet dissident for violating his probation terms,
a rights group said, as the country steps up a pre-Olympic
crackdown on dissent to ensure the Games go smoothly.
Reuters - Top U.S. phone company AT&T Inc
said on Wednesday its quarterly profit rose, as growth in
wireless subscribers helped to compensate for its shrinking
traditional landline business.
AP - With Microsoft's $47.5 billion takeover bid off the table and his company's stock price down 20 percent during his 13-month reign as Yahoo's CEO, Jerry Yang has a message for his exasperated shareholders: Things aren't as bleak as they look.