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Taiwan's HTC: iPhone's `quiet' challenger
(AP)
 AP - East Asia is the world's electronics factory, yet unless they are Japanese, producers are largely anonymous. Now HTC Corp., a Taiwanese maker of smart phones, is moving out of the shadows and trying to establish its own brand name as it competes with Apple's iPhone.
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Craigslist strikes adult services under pressure
(AP)
 AP - Craigslist appears to have surrendered in a legal fight over erotic ads posted on its website, shutting down its adult services section Saturday and replacing it with a black bar that simply says censored.
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Texas opens inquiry into Google search rankings
(AP)
 AP - Google Inc.'s methods for recommending websites are being reviewed by Texas' attorney general in an investigation spurred by complaints that the company has abused its power as the Internet's dominant search engine.
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Able to unplug from work while you?re on vacation?
(Ben Patterson)
Ben Patterson - Fighting the urge to check your work e-mail while yoursquo;re on holiday doesnrsquo;t exactly qualify as the worst problem in the world; after all, itrsquo;s pretty nice to have a job at all in this tough economy, right? Then again, the pressure to hang onto a job seems to be driving more and more connected workers to stay plugged in even while theyrsquo;re trying to tune out.
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Mobile users still wary of being found, survey says
(Ben Patterson)
Ben Patterson - Feel the need to check in on Foursquare or Facebook every time you saunter into a restaurant, browse the goods at your neighborhood grocery store, or cram into a rock concert? Well, if you, yoursquo;re still in the minority mdash; and yoursquo;re also probably a guy below 40 mdash; according to the latest research.
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