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Motorola to close dedicated websites for some marketsview story

http://www.talkandroid.com –   Not too long ago Motorola reported they were going to be downsizing a bit after Google bought them. Looks like some of that downsizing is going to come in the form of website consolidation in other countries. (IT news)

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biNu Raises $4.3M To Bring Apps to Feature Phones, Launches Credits Programview story

http://techcrunch.com – Mobile app platform biNu just announced that it has closed a $4.3 million Series A round of funding. Back in August, the company said it had raised $2 million from Eric Schmidt’s Tomorrow Ventures, along with the Savannah Fund, David Risher, and Paul Bassat. (IT news)

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The Facebook Mobile Plot Thickens: Orange To Offer ‘Party Call’, A Social Calling Service Starting Summer 2013view story

http://techcrunch.com – Facebook Phone it may not be, but today we have one more example of how users will be able to use Facebook on their phones — and in place of traditional phone services. Today, multinational French carrier Orange announced that it would offer “Party Call,” a “social calling” service on the social network. (IT news)

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Linux Mint 14 “Nadia” RC released!view story

http://blog.linuxmint.com – The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 14 “Nadia” RC. Linux Mint 14 Nadia For the first time since Linux Mint 11, the development team was able to capitalize on upstream technology which works and fits its goals. After 6 months of incremental development, Linux Mint 14 features an impressive list of improvements, increased stability and a refined desktop experience. (Distributions)

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Apple Adds 8 New Currencies Supported In App Store, Including Russian Ruble, Indian Rupee And Saudi Riyalview story

http://techcrunch.com – Apple continues to go global with its App Store ambitions: the company has made eight additions to the list of supported currencies. The new currencies are the Russian Ruble, Turkey’s Lire, India’s Rupee, Indonesia’s Rupiah, Israel’s New Shekel, Saudi Arabia’s Riyal, South Africa’s Rand, and United Arab Emirates’ Dirham. (IT news)

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Huawei introduces the mid-range tablet MediaPad 7 Liteview story

http://www.talkandroid.com – Huawei has unveiled their mid-range tablet dubbed as the MediaPad 7 Lite. As the name suggests, the tablet has a 7″ screen and sports a 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor. (IT news)

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Help with torrent romview story

http://forum.xda-developers.com – I cant seem to get a complete download on sammobile for my galaxy note gt-n7000. Can somone please assist me with a stoke rom for ICS 4.0.4 LA4 south africa. Thanks in advance. (HowTos)

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Distribution Watch: Comstor, Westcon Group, Jenne Inc.view story

http://www.thevarguy.com – Greetings, and welcome to the latest episode of Distribution Watch, our weekly collection of doings in the disty space. (IT news)

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Channel Partner Program Roundup: HID Global, Vidtel, ForeScoutview story

http://www.thevarguy.com – Welcome to this week’s Channel Partner Program Roundup, our weekly collection of all things channel-related. (IT news)

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Complete Disk Wipe, reformat and OS changeview story

http://askubuntu.com – Please bare with me, I am very new to open source and have never used uBuntu before and as such may be asking basic questions, which I need to understand before preparing to download uBuntu. I have an old laptop, that I wish to rejuvinate, and I need to completely wipe the hard drive as well as reformat it and load a new Operating System. I have decided to move to uBuntu, and no longer use my MS (HowTos)