Last year, Microsoft successfully mated a touch-screen PC with one of those old Ms. Pacman games you might see at your typical dive bar. Thus the Microsoft Surface -- the world's smartest end table -- was born. At first, it spent most of its time finger painting and identifying objects placed on top of it. Now that it's a little older, Microsoft has decided it's time for Surface to go out and get a job. So it's ready to start working at a few AT&T stores starting later this month.
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Shawn Zade, who runs a small company called "Wireless Imports" in New York, is among hundreds of businesspeople who have tried to make a buck from purchasing and reselling Apple's iPhone at a higher price. However, his job has gotten so hard lately that he may exit the iPhone resale business altogether. The departure would be a casualty of what analysts and salespeople say is a widespread shortage of iPhones. "We'd be calling every store, they'd be sold out, sold out, sold out," Zade says.
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While the Apple-related blogging world has seen a range of topics this week, including updates to iTunes, QuickTime and Front Row, it should come as no surprise that this week's hottest focus of Apple-related blogging comes courtesy of the ever popular iPhone. If something happens in the mobile cell phone world, the iPhone gets play. If something comes up in the online music or video world ... there's a good chance the iPhone will get play. The dominant coverage this week, however, is not only about how it will shake out in future models -- bloggers are covering where it's not.
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Research In Motion posted strong earnings and sales growth in its fourth quarter. The positive news signals that it has not seen the Apple iPhone cut into the market share for its BlackBerry device and that adoption may continue to grow even amid a weakening economy. RIM beat Wall Street targets for the quarter ending March 1, shipped a record number of BlackBerry handsets and issued an outlook that was also more robust than expected. The result was a surge in RIM shares, which were up 6 percent in midday trading Thursday to $122.64.
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Maybe bad news sells. A dormant market for real estate hasn't stopped a new homebuilding game from being a hot download in the computer world. "Build-a-lot" takes a player through a series of homebuilding challenges, juggling everything from cash flow to supplies to the ever-present demands of the local mayor. Now, if they could only throw in a presidential campaign meddling with the home market to boot. The game, created for the Windows world by HipSoft, came out late last year.
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