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Google halting Nexus One sales through official store after current inventory depleted

We knew this was eventually coming , and here it is: Google is giving everyone the heads-up that it just got a fresh batch of Nexus Ones in stock, and once they've been sold through, they'll no longer be offered directly through the company's online store. For what it's worth, the customer service lines will stay open even after that happens -- and you'll still be able to buy a phone through KT in South Korea, Vodafone in Europe, and "possibly other [retailers] based on local market conditions" -- but by and large, your average American is going to have a hard time getting one pretty shortly

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Microsoft’s Tag Links the Physical World To the Internet

Paper publications have a problem: they want to link to the Internet, but in order to reach the destination, the reader must type the link into his browser manually, which is slow and awkward. Microsoft now offers a solution , called Tag. It’s essentially a barcode – an optical machine-readable representation of data – and it lets paper magazines create visual links to content which can be “opened” simply by pointing your smartphone’s camera at them.

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Google Nexus One Sales Off to Slow Start

Google’s Nexus One Android phone could end up being a miss for the search company with the golden touch.

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