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Dwindling iPhone stock fuels update expectations

Apple Inc. said Monday its online stores in the U.S. and U.K. are sold out of the iPhone, a sign supplies are being winnowed ahead of the launch of the device's next generation featuring faster Internet surfing speeds.

MIT students show power of open cell phone systems

MIT professor Hal Abelson gave his students one assignment: Design a software program for cell phones that use Google Inc.'s upcoming Android mobile operating system.

Program offers easy access to the universe

Microsoft launched its WorldWide Telescope late Monday, bringing the free Web-based program for zooming around the universe to a broad audience.

New BlackBerry doubles screen resolution

Research In Motion Ltd. on Monday introduced its first major new BlackBerry model in more than a year: the Bold, a high-end model that further demonstrates the company's desire to make tools for both work and play.

Next generation of business software could get more fun

Now technology researchers are trying to replicate old-fashioned office interactions by transforming everyday business software for the new era of work.

New in mortuary science: Dissolving bodies with lye

Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest - dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain.

Facebook to let users carry profiles with them

Facebook Inc. is loosening its grip on millions of personal profiles to allow inhabitants of its popular Internet hangout to transplant the information and applications to other Web sites.

Apple agrees to settle iPod lawsuit

Apple Inc. has agreed to settle a pair of class-action lawsuits in Canada alleging it misled customers about the staying power of their iPods, the latest courtroom truce over the dwindling battery life of early generations of the device.

Data recovered from doomed shuttle's melted disk drive

Jon Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2003.

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