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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer laughed when the iPhone topic came up during an interview. He claimed the iPhone is way too expensive at the estimated $500 price point and also pointed out that the iPhone doesn’t have a keyboard. He continues stating that Microsoft sells millions of phones per year and Apple sells none.
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Apple Inc. shares fell as much as 5% Thursday as a weaker-than-expected forecast for the second quarter and concerns over Macintosh sales outweighed the company’s first-quarter surge in earnings and iPod sales.
Apple (AAPL) saw its shares give up $4.98 to trade at $89.98 after the company said it expects its second-quarter earnings to be between [...]

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Code that exploits a critical Windows vulnerability disclosed and patched last week has been posted to a public mailing list, raising the risk of an attack.
Code that exploits a critical Windows vulnerability disclosed and patched last week has been posted to a public mailing list, raising the risk of an attack, security vendors said Wednesday.
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The stock market party at Research In Motion (RIMM - commentary - Cramer’s Take - Rating) may be winding down, but it is not over yet.
News of Apple’s (AAPL - commentary - Cramer’s Take - Rating) iPhone dealt the handheld-device maker’s shares a blow that it may find difficult to recover from, say some fund [...]

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Apple Inc.’s new iPhone is expected to make a big splash when it hits the stores in June, but reports say they won’t be available to buy in all or large portions of about 19 states.
That’s because the iPhone is being offered with exclusive service through AT&T’s Cingular Wireless, which cannot be sold to residents [...]

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I recently stumbled upon a website based in Iowa that enables you to make international calls for FREE. Seriously. FREE! They don’t even require a registration! I don’t think this will last too long. If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
Allfreecalls.net allows you to call almost anywhere in the world [...]

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We were present during the press conference, where UMPC was unveiled by Microsoft (for the first time in the world), and at the very end of this press conference, as the last question in this event, we asked Microsoft one question: “what about support for multi-touch in UMPC?” (we have audio recording to prove it). [...]

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During the keynote Bill Gates was gesticulating emotionally and was inviting managers from various areas of Microsoft business to talk in more detail about these areas. One of these managers was Robbie Bach who is a manager responsible for Entertainment and Devices Division (Xbox, Zune and also Windows Mobile):
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The iPod has been a huge, blockbuster success story for Apple. So huge in fact that it will be nearly impossible for iPhone to duplicate it’s success. You may want one, but you don’t need one.

Top 5 reasons why you don’t need an iPhone:

You already own an iPod.
You already own a cell phone.
iPhone does [...]

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