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Buyers flock as Apple’s iPad hits Asia

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Buyers flock as Apple’s iPad hits Asia

TOKYO – Apple Inc’s iPad launched in overseas store shelves on Friday, with buyers storming Japanese and Australian shops to be among the first outside the United States to snap up the long awaited tablet PC.

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Sony launches e-reader, take on Apple

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Sony launches e-reader, take on Apple

TOKYO - Sony Corp said on Thursday it would launch an e-reader and online content distribution service in Japan by year-end, taking on rival Apple Inc whose iPad hits shelves in the country on Friday.

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Facebook overhauls privacy controls

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Facebook overhauls privacy controls

PALO ALTO - Facebook is overhauling privacy controls in the face of a barrage of criticism that it is betraying the trust which has made it the world’s biggest social network.

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Wired magazine unveils iPad application

WASHINGTON - Wired magazine unveiled its application for Apple’s iPad on Wednesday, an interactive version of the popular technology publication for five dollars a month, the same price as the print edition.

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Facebook to unveil new privacy controls

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Facebook to unveil new privacy controls

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook has called a Wednesday press conference to discuss “enhanced, simpler” privacy controls designed to appease concerns about safeguarding information at the social-networking service.

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