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The Softbank Corporation, the Japanese mobile phone company, posted an eighteenfold increase in first-quarter profit after adding users at a pace twice that of the market leader, NTT DoCoMo.

Source: BLOOMBERG NEWS

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The former general counsel of Grand Theft Auto maker Take-Two was sentenced to three years of probation for his role in the company’s options backdating woes.

Source: BLOOMBERG NEWS

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Filed under: Home Entertainment

We heard it was going to happen, and it did: Blockbuster bought Movielink for an undisclosed sum, surely to compliment its online offerings to better compete with arch-nemesis Netflix in the internet movie distribution game. And surely if it did sell for the piddly $50 mil figure being tossed around before, the barrier to this entry is just a drop in the bucket for the big blue movie rental giant.

[Thanks, Philip]

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Source: Ryan Block

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Filed under: Cellphones

Ok, we can officially and finally put this debate to rest: yes, Apple really could use its multi-touch input system to enable users to friggin’ copy / paste text in the iPhone. And to prove it, the usual random internet dude (lonelysandwich) has put his skills to the test and developed a demo proof of concept video that Conan O’Brien will probably sue over. Hit it up after the break!

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Source: Ryan Block

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Second Life is a Web site that gives thousands a chance to build online houses that are Architectural Digest-style fantasies.

Source: SETH KUGEL

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AP - A magazine gets a hot story straight from a soldier in Iraq and publishes his writing, complete with gory details, under a pseudonym. The stories are chilling: An Iraqi boy befriends American troops and later has his tongue cut out by insurgents. Soldiers mock a disfigured woman sitting near them in a dining hall. As a diversion, soldiers run over dogs with armored personnel carriers. Compelling stuff, and, according to the Army, not true.

Source: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Newman’s been known to crank out a few less than beautiful devices in its time, but the interestingly styled vx1000 certainly ups the ante. This handheld conglomerate manages to wear an awful lot of hats, as it features a built-in media player, four-inch 480 x 272 widescreen panel, an image / text viewer, FM radio, WiFi, gaming functions, and Windows CE at the helm. Of course, we’d be sure to give this thing a whirl before confidently snapping up such a chintzy looking piece, but those willing to take the risk can pick one up in China for 1,999CNY ($264).

[Via PMPToday]

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Source: Darren Murph

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Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless

T-Mobile’s HotSpot @Home already brings WiFi VoIP to compatible cell phones, and the latest FCC filing from T-Mo and Linksys indicates that soon all the phones in your pad will be able to get in on the action: say hello to the WRTU54G. Apart from the T-Mobile branding and the two phone jacks on the back, the router features two user-accessible SIM card slots, which appear to be used to configure up to two phone lines — we’re not sure if they’re VoIP or cell, however.

[Via TG Daily]

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Source: Nilay Patel

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