Google introduces online payment system

BERLIN – Google Inc. is undercutting rival Apple Inc. with an online payment system that lets publishers keep more of the fees charged for reading their digital editions.

Google CEO

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Motorola Atrix a powerful smart phone

SAN FRANCISCO – As smart phones get an increasing array of features, they need faster processors. The Motorola Atrix 4G, billed as "the world's most powerful smart phone," arrives with 2 gigahertz of processing power_ the kind you're more likely to find on a laptop than a phone.

That's notable because there's an optional laptop dock,

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Why iPad costs less than new rivals

Presidents Day is famous for sales. Lay down your dead Presidents for linens or shirts. But app fans, don’t expect any deals on tabs, not now or in the future.

You might expect the invasion of the tablets to drive down prices, pressuring Apple (AAPL) to lower the price on its market-leading iPad. But Apple

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China cracks down after calls for protests

BEIJING (AFP) – China has detained top activists and deployed heavy security in large cities after the launch of a web campaign calling for protests echoing popular uprisings in the Arab world, campaigners said on Sunday.

Up to 100 leading Chinese


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Google Tried To Convince Nokia To Adopt Android

 

Google "certainly tried," without success, to convince Nokia to convert to Android rather than Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 operating system. That's the picture painted by Google CEO Eric Schmidt Tuesday in a keynote address at the Mobile World Congress currently in Barcelona, Spain.

Schmidt said Google "would have loved Nokia to choose Android and we certainly tried." He added that, if the Microsoft-Nokia collaboration doesn't work out, "the offer remains open for the future."

'Fastest Growing Mobile Platform'

In a bombshell announcement, Nokia

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Apple's Jobs to attend Obama meeting

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple

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