The Maryland Jockey Club announced Monday it has an app of its own. The app, which will provide instant, real-time access to the latest Preakness Stakes updates, is available for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry phones. So while you’re out in the ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Motorola’s Xoom has been hailed as the most likely tablet computer to rival Apple’s iPad — the first with the goods to compete against the uncontested leader in this nascent but rapidly growing market. After trying it ...

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HELSINKI — Technology titans Nokia and Microsoft are joining forces to make smart phones in a push to challenge rivals like Apple and Google, hoping to revive their own fortunes in a market they have struggled to keep up with. ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Google is richer than ever, but it’s not as cool as it once was. Facebook boasts 500 million members who share 30 billion links, notes and photos each month — data that Google’s search engine can’t completely ...

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LAS VEGAS — Big tablets and small tablets, white ones and black ones. Cheap ones and expensive ones. Brand names famous and obscure at the starting line of a race where the iPad is already a speeding dot near the ...

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SEATTLE — Smart phones running Microsoft Corp.’s new software are now available for AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile USA customers. The phones will compete with Apple Inc.’s iPhone and an expanding number of phones with Google Inc.’s Android system. The first ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Two years ago, the Android invasion began when T-Mobile released the first smart phone running Google’s Android operating system, HTC’s G1. Now comes a speedier, flashier and more capable smart phone called the G2. Like the G1, ...

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REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft Corp. is suing Motorola Inc. for infringing on its smart-phone patents. The software maker on Friday said Motorola phones that use Google Inc.’s Android software step on Microsoft technology. The functions in question include synchronizing e-mail, ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — The more phones that hit the market using Google’s Android operating software, the harder it is for each offering to stand out from the black-and-silver crowd. Samsung is the latest company trying to turn heads, hoping consumers ...

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