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AT&T agrees to buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion (update)

Wowzers! AT&T and Deutsche Telekom have entered into a definitive agreement for the sale of T-Mobile USA for39 billion in cash and stocks. The combined customer base of this upcoming behemoth will be 13    

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Nokia collects design patent for a tablet, evokes N8 aesthetics (update: there's another one!)

It's no secret that Nokia's been casting an interested eye over the tablet market and now we have a bit of extra evidence to show its intent, courtesy of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.    

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Intel works with notebook makers to push into Android tablet PC market

As Microsoft has announced its Windows operating system will add support for ARM-based platforms, Intel has recently decided to cooperate with Taiwan-based notebook makers including Inventec and Compal Electron    

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Demand for handset optical components to start taking off, says LensVector CEO

Shipments of solid-state optical components for camera phones from LensVector to the China market are expected to take off starting mid-2011, according to company CEO Derek Proudian.    

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Japan earthquake: Toshiba closes down CIS plant; may result in further tightening of supply

Toshiba has closed down its plant that produces logic ICs and CMOS image sensors (CIS), including those for handsets, in Iwate, Japan because of the power failure caused by the March 11 earthquake, and the move    

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iPad 2 carries bill of materials of US$326.60, says IHS iSuppli

With the second-generation iPad, Apple has held the line on the bill of materials (BOM), maintaining virtually the same costs as the first version of the device, an IHS iSuppli teardown analysis of the product    

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Japan earthquake: NAND flash supply to tighten

Market observers have predicted that NAND flash memory, which is widely used in smartphones, tablets and other digital consumer electronics, will be in tight supply due to supply concerns caused by the recent e    

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iPad 2 line watch: the few, the proud, the soaking wet

Last night you couldn't walk down the street in New York City without becoming seriously soaked and breaking your umbrella, but you didn't really think that would stop those crazy Apple fans, did you?    

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Symbian UI overhaul scheduled for the fall?

While Symbian might be good as dead to most Engadget readers, Nokia must continue supporting the millions of S^ wearing faithful until it can fully transition to a Windows Phone smartphone shop in 2012. So we w    

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China market: China Mobile occupies over 70% of 4Q10 handset-based e-mail users, says Analysys

In the China market, there were 54.22 million active users of handset-based e-mail services at the end of the fourth quarter of 2010, with China Mobile accounting for 70.75% of the number, according to China-ba    

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