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Apple takes pre-orders for April 3 iPad launch (AP)

Drumroll, please: CEO Steve Jobs introduces Apple's new tablet in San Francisco, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. It's called — you guessed it — the iPad. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Apple is accepting pre-orders for the iPad, its new touch-screen gadget for reading books, watching video and surfing the Web.


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Twitter unveils tool to share tweeting locations (AP)

AP - Twitter can now let the world automatically know your whereabouts as well as your thoughts and activities.

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Pink Floyd wins battle with EMI over online sales (AP)

FILE This is a Saturday July 2, 2005 file photo of Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmore, left, and Roger Waters as they  perform at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park,  London  In a victory for the concept album, Britain's High Court on Thursday March 11, 2010 ordered record company EMI Group Ltd. to stop selling downloads of Pink Floyd tracks individually rather than as part of the band's original records. The rock group sued the music label, saying its contract prohibited selling the tracks 'unbundled' from their original album setting.  (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)AP - Album lovers may rejoice a little at last: a British court says Pink Floyd, purveyor of iTunes-unfriendly concept records, cannot be unbundled.


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Stop TV networks’ blackouts, providers beg the FCC (AP)

AP - Cable, satellite TV and other video providers have asked the government to intervene in ongoing fee disputes with TV networks — big-money fights that are expected to escalate this year as more contracts expire.

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Panasonic’s first 3-D TV set in $2,900 package (AP)

AP - Panasonic Corp. on Wednesday revealed the price for its first 3-D TV set, confirming that $3,000 is about what it takes to be among the first to watch 3-D movies in the home.

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Google opens Web store for business applications (AP)

AP - Google Inc. will sell the online services of other business software makers in an effort to fill its own product gaps and persuade more companies to rely on applications piped over the Internet.

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