AP - A consortium of companies planning an undersea cable linking eastern Africa with Europe on Monday won the funding it needed to start construction, a move organizers said will bring this part of the world affordable and reliable telecommunications for the first time.
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NewsFactor - Hoping to add yet more treats to the holiday feast of new devices, Verizon Wireless announced this week the availability of two new phones — the Voyager and the Venus, both made by LG.
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NewsFactor - A new phone from AT&T and Samsung will be offering Napster Mobile this holiday season. Called the SLM, the exclusive-to-AT&T phone will let users search the music service’s catalog of more than five million songs, preview song samples, and buy songs to download to the handset.
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PC World - Mozilla has released an update to its Firefox browser, fixing a widely publicized flaw in the open-source software.
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AP - After a long weekend of battling maddening crowds at the malls, the last thing most people want to do is go back to the stores after work to do more shopping.
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PC World - Video games, consoles, and music players led the lists of many online buyers who clogged sites.
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