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Consumers say Apple must lower the phone's $500 price for them to make the move.

Hitachi has launched a trial of a "similar image search service" called GazoPa as an invitation-only beta.

CNET - Just as many of you settled into your seats to watch Thursday evening's debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin, Allen Stern of CenterNetworks was attracting his own crowd on Twitter after raising a question that strikes at heart of the blogosphere.

The Moto GP season moves to Phillip Island, Australia this weekend with little to be decided other than who this year's runner-up will be.

AFP - Google said it is postponing a planned online advertising tie-up with Yahoo to allow more time for US anti-trust regulators to consider the ramifications of the deal.

CNET - Michael Calce, aka "Mafiaboy," has written a memoir about how he temporarily shut down a handful of major Web sites and led the FBI and Royal Canadian Mounted Police on a manhunt when he was 15.

Reuters - Carlos Santana is on tour and has an album coming out, but in an interview with Rolling Stone posted online on Friday the rocker said he sees himself one day heading up a church in Hawaii.

AP - A CNN-owned Web site called iReport.com, which publishes reports written by ordinary citizens, said Friday it will give the Securities and Exchange Commission information about the author of an item that claimed Apple CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack.

Boy Genius Report gets ahold of some photos of the next-generation digital Reader from Amazon, and they seem real.

A study finds that online bullying is pervasive among teenagers, but few report the incidents to their parents or other adults.