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Microsoft’s a pretty big company, and while we’ve been focused on its Windows Phone 7 Series and Pink mobile projects over here in the Land of the Free, its Live Messenger arm has apparently teamed up with French mobile carrier SFR for a branded phone. The Messenger Edition 251 handset looks to be based on Windows Mobile 6.5 (or something older), with no word on who the hardware partner is, and is taking on the youth market just like Pink will presumably be doing Stateside sometime this year.

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Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger phone for France is hardly Pink

Nokia’s community blog has opened up the crowdsourcing floodgates, at least in theory.

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Nokia’s Design by Community makes smartphone concepting a multiplayer game, with limits

Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he’ll explore where our industry is and where it’s going — on both micro and macro levels — with the unique wit and insight only he can provide. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” I’d paraphrase Arthur C.

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They may not be quite as sleek as their latest laptop counterpart , but Dell’s two new Vostro 230 desktops are both at least fairly compact and, most importantly, cheap. Available in both Slim Tower or Mini Tower form factors, the desktops start at just $389 or $299, respectively, but can of course be upgraded significantly from there, including processors up to a 3.0GHz Core 2 Quad Q9650, a maximum 4GB of RAM, up to 2TB of storage (from two 1TB drives), and your choice of NVIDIA GeForce G310 or GeForce GT220 graphics (in addition to the standard integrated option)

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Dell rolls out Vostro 230 Slim Tower, Mini Tower desktops

As you may have heard, Viacom and YouTube have been having a little tift lately, in the form of a major lawsuit by the former over copyrighted material posted on the video portal. It’s a lawsuit that, according to YouTube, will cause such video sites to “cease to exist in the current form” — but more importantly, it’s a lawsuit that leads to some rather hilarious behind-the-scenes details.

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YouTube: Viacom would demand removal of videos it covertly uploaded itself

Palm gave us a heads-up back in late February that its upcoming earnings report wouldn’t exactly be cause for celebration, and today the news has become official: the outfit recorded a net loss of $22 million during its fiscal Q3, which still looks rosy compared to the $98 million loss it suffered this quarter a year ago. All told, the firm shipped 960,000 smartphones in the period, which represents a 23 percent uptick from Q2 2010 and a nearly 300 percent increase compared to this quarter in 2009.

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Palm posts $22m Q3 loss, ‘making great progress on future products’

We don’t like to stir up the nearly constant barrage of “so-and-so is getting the iPhone” rumors unless we’ve got a great reason to do so — and we’d argue that a Financial Times report involving statements from Deutsche Telekom’s CEO qualifies. The British rag was chatting up DT’s boss over the prospects of its American unit — T-Mobile USA — and stressed the company’s long-term commitment to turning around T-Mobile’s fortunes in the face of recent spinoff rumors , saying that it’s all about rapidly building out a speedy 3G network as part of an effort this year “to lay the foundation for future growth.” Here’s where it gets juicy: referring to the iPhone, the report goes on to say that “T-Mobile USA is hoping to start selling the popular smartphone later this year or next year” while focusing on Android in the meantime, as if Android is merely a stopgap measure to make it through to the singular device that can save America’s number four carrier from going down the tubes. It’s not clear whether FT got the chief exec making a statement to that effect on the record or it’s merely gleaning this knowledge from other rumors, but the only way this would be able to happen is if the next iPhone were to come in an AWS -compatible version — and that seems unlikely considering that AWS coverage represents a trivially small fraction of 3G subscribers around the world.

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T-Mobile USA eyeing iPhone launch this year or next?

The iPad launch may finally be right around the corner, but it looks like Apple might still have some considerable work cut out for itself before the big day. According to The Wall Street Journal , Apple is still negotiating with various media companies in an effort to drop the price on TV shows offered on the device, and it’s even reportedly put some potential deals with newspaper, magazine and textbook publishers on the backburner as it focuses on other content

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WSJ: Apple still ‘racing’ to complete iPad content deals before launch

No need to spot clean your spectacles, and no need to brush the cobwebs out of your dome — you really are seeing yet another IR dongle for Apple’s dear iLineup. Hot on the heels of New Potato’s FLPR , ThinkFlood’s RedEye mini and Power A’s solution comes this: an all-too-similar way to convert your iPod touch, iPhone or forthcoming iPad into a universal remote.

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i-Got-Control IRB1 dongle gives your iPhone / iPod touch universal remote functionality

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