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Mobile phones don’t cause brain cancer in children, new study claims

Take those tin foil hats off your rugrats, because a new Swiss study says kids who use mobile phones don’t raise their risk of getting brain cancer.  Researchers interviewed children between 7 and 19 years old about how often they used their mobiles. They found the 352 children studied who had developed brain cancer weren’t any more likely to be …

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Amazon reportedly ramping up 7

Amazon is aiming to launch both a 7-inch and 10-inch tablet in the third quarter and is currently lining up the right suppliers, according to the latest from the folks at DigiTimes. A number of chip design firms in Taiwan expect to see a healthy bump in sales in the third quarter as they ship parts for the new tablets, …

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Sprint posts wider loss on bad investments

Sprint Nextel said today it fell further into the red in the second quarter as a result of losses related to bad stock investments. Sprint also said it lost 101,000 contract subscribers in the period. The company was likely hit by the double whammy of the Apple iPhone being available at both AT&T and Verizon Wireless, while speed freaks who …

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