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	<description>David Gelles, Joseph Menn, Chris Nuttall and Richard Waters in the FT's San Francisco bureau upload their technology views</description>
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		<title>Sun Microsystems’ losses narrow</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/11/sun-microsystems-losses-narrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Waters</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/?p=15301</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Things at Sun Microsystems do not seem to be quite as bad as Larry Ellison has been suggesting.
The Oracle boss said in late September that Sun was losing $100m a month as European regulators put its $7.4bn acquisition on hold. Then, a month later, Sun announced plans to sack 3,000 workers - a move that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Droid - the good, the bad and the ugly</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/11/droid-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/11/droid-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Nuttall</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[android]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/?p=15256</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Droid, the most hyped Android phone to date - even Google promoted it on its home page today - is finally available to buy in Verizon Wireless stores.
More than 100 people queued at midnight outside a midtown Manhattan store to be among the first members of the public to get their hands on one.
I&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skype soap opera set to continue</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/11/skype-soap-opera-set-to-continue/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/11/skype-soap-opera-set-to-continue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Waters</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/?p=15191</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You just know that this is not the end.
It&#8217;s like one of those bad soap operas. There&#8217;s a big family wedding coming up and the distant European cousins aren&#8217;t invited. It leads to some vicious public name-calling. Eventually everyone calms down and the cousins are invited after all, though some other guests have be thrown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FT techtalk - the boys in the bubbles</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/11/ft-techtalk-the-boys-in-the-bubbles/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/11/ft-techtalk-the-boys-in-the-bubbles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Nuttall</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/?p=15151</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this week&#8217;s FT techtalk, we discussed how the dotcom world is bubbling along again, the tech industry is rebounding  and the video game sector is about to be lifted by a rocket-propelled grenade or two.
We also took a peek at a new Twitter device, looked at the newest phones and brought you the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As good as it gets for D-ram consolidation</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/11/as-good-as-it-gets-for-d-ram-consolidation/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/11/as-good-as-it-gets-for-d-ram-consolidation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Kwong</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/?p=15116</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is probably as good as it gets for D-ram industry consolidation in Taiwan. ProMOS, which stood on the brink of bankruptcy for much of the past year, was assured of new business on Friday when it signed an agreement to provide manufacturing services to Japan&#8217;s Elpida. Elpida will also licence the technology needed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AT&amp;T says people still don’t want the Web on TV</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/11/att-says-people-still-dont-want-the-web-on-tv/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/11/att-says-people-still-dont-want-the-web-on-tv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Menn</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Electronics]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/?p=15076</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Top wired telecom provider AT&#38;T is clearly doing something right with U-verse TV, its cable-like service delivering more than 100 high-definition television channels over internet pipes to what are now more than 1.8m living rooms.
On Thursday, AT&#38;T Chief Technology Officer John Donovan and others came to San Francisco to show off what may be coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7: buying the bits, not the boxes</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/11/windows-7-buying-the-bits-not-the-boxes/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/11/windows-7-buying-the-bits-not-the-boxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Waters</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks after the launch of Windows 7 come some early data on how it is faring with consumers (while these sales are minor in the bigger scheme of things, getting early favourable buzz going with consumers is an essential part of building momentum for the new operating system).
According to research firm NPD, purchases of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google’s ‘dashboard’ privacy controls are a good start</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/11/googles-new-privacy-controls-are-a-good-start/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/11/googles-new-privacy-controls-are-a-good-start/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maija Palmer</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/?p=14976</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google has had several years of tussles now with privacy regulators. Three years ago European data protection commissioners began question what the company was doing with all the personal data it was gleaning from users of its search engine. In the past year, the company has faced outrage - at least in some pockets like Italy, Japan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qualcomm sees falling phone prices in 2010</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/11/qualcomm-sees-falling-phone-prices-in-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/11/qualcomm-sees-falling-phone-prices-in-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Nuttall</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/?p=14961</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The growth of the smartphone category is causing intense competition among operating systems, handset makers and the chipmakers that supply them.
Paul Jacobs, chief executive of Qualcomm, the biggest wireless chipmaker, sees that competition intensifying over the next year in smartphones and other handsets, which will translate into lower prices.
&#8220;If I look at the chip business, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Android Market remains baffling bazaar</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/11/android-market-remains-baffling-bazaar/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/11/android-market-remains-baffling-bazaar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Nuttall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Backers of the Android mobile operating system today acknowledged they needed to do more to promote applications, as Apple extended its lead with the iPhone to more than 100,000 apps now available in its App Store.
That&#8217;s 15,000 more than the last update of 85,000&#8230;and the growth is more than the total number of Android apps [...]]]></description>
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