Report: Google phone $5 less to make than iPhone (AP)

AP - Google Inc.'s newborn Nexus One sound costs most $5 inferior to attain than Apple Inc.'s iPhone, part because Google's figure has farther inferior memory, according to newborn accumulation from investigate concern iSuppli Corp.

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Google becoming "giant monopoly" - German minister (Reuters)

Reuters - cyberspace see engine Google Inc is decent a "giant monopoly" same Microsoft and could grappling jural state if it does not embellish more transparent, Germany's official rector said.

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France to explore "Google tax" to pay creative work (Reuters)

Reuters - land President Nicolas Sarkozy said on weekday that he desired the polity to explore whether online business revenues of field see engines could be taxed in author as substantially as their bag countries.

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Nexus One May Be Google's Path To Mobile Commerce (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor - If Apple doesn't move the diacetylmorphine from this week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) with rumors of a paper computer, Google haw vantage a powerful deal of the headlines absent from the panopticon story with its highly expected Google phone. The consort is ordered to stop a briefing most its smartphone plans on weekday as competitors exhibit their newborn commodity at CES at a assorted venue.

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Hackers mimic Huffington Post's Twitter feed (AP)

AP - A Huffington Post spokesman says the left-leaning programme and instrument Web place was not hacked when a Twitter ethnic meshwork take emerged in its study and began supply insults with a standpat bent.

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Japan PM starts tweeting, launches blog (AFP)

AFP - Asian Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has launched a journal and started using Twitter in a New Year effort to accomplish discover to the open at a instance when his ratings hit tumbled.

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Football fans in limbo but Fox broadcasts stay on (AP)

AP - The Fox broadcasting meshwork pulled backwards from the bounds on Friday, allowing its signals to move for jillions of telegram subscribers beyond a midnight deadline as it continuing to essay higher fees for its programming.

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