Cell Phones Watch

Google has agreed to delete all personal WiFi data gathered by its “Street View” mapping service in Hong Kong, in what the city’s privacy commissioner said was a first.
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LUDINGTON, Mich. (AP) Michigan state police divers have recovered the remains of two people who were passengers on a medical plane that crashed into Lake Michigan last week.
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Nokia Siemens Networks, the big telecom equipment maker, is in talks with several private equity firms about a potential investment in exchange for a minority stake, people briefed on the matter told DealBook on Friday.
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The Android Market may have just hit another major milestone. Android Community reports that the App Market has just hit 100,000 submitted apps. This number comes courtesy of AndroLib, which watches over more than just the official Android Market. As a res…
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Nokia Inc., the world’s largest maker of cell phones, spent $150,000 in the second quarter to lobby the U.S. federal government on patents, the use of minerals from rebel-held mines in the Congo and other issues, according to a disclosure report.
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MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) A transgender woman says she was ridiculed by hospital staff and eventually denied treatment when she went to a Muncie hospital’s emergency room coughing up blood.
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Although Android-based phones are only a modest threat right to the Apple and the iPhone right now, the competition should become much more serious in a few years, says Bernstein Research’s Toni Sacconaghi. The analyst points out that Android phones are already trumping the iPhone on a daily sales basis, moving about 160,000 units versus the iPhone’s 95,000. Around 120,000 of RIM’s BlackBerries …
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Take an iPod Touch, add Wi-Fi and an Internet-calling app like Skype, and youve pretty much got a phone, right? Now comes word that Sprint could be prepping a cradle for the Touch that acts as a portable hotspot, good for keeping the iPod in a Wi-Fi cloud when Sprint 3G coverage is available.
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A Bristol woman told police she reached over to the front passenger seat to retrieve an item while driving south on C.R. 131 near Bonneyville Mill Friday morning.
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A eastbound car on C.R. 6 collided Friday morning with bicyclist who was southbound on C.R. 21, a mile west of Bristol.
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