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More than half of the people in the developing world are now cell phone subscribers, a U.N. report said Tuesday, highlighting strong global growth in telecommunications.

There were an estimated 4.6 billion mobile phone subscriptions at the end of last year, compared with about 1 billion in 2002, the International Telecommunication Union said in a report. In developing nations, 57 percent of people were signed up.

"The rate of progress remains remarkable," the U.N. agency said.

Dell is fed up with losing ground to Acer. Last year Dell lost its spot as the world's second-largest computer maker to its Taiwanese rival, lagging behind Acer in market share for the first time ever. As of the fourth quarter of 2009, Dell had just 12.4 percent of the global market, according to market research firm IDC, compared with 13.4 percent for Acer and 21 percent for Hewlett-Packard.

The JooJoo, a Web-browsing tablet device that is the subject of a high-profile Silicon Valley legal dispute, appears on track to reach early buyers at the end of February.

The flat touch-screen computer was known until December as the CrunchPad, after the technology blog TechCrunch. It was born from a post by the blog's well-connected and outspoken founder, Michael Arrington, that called for collaborators on a "dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen Web tablet."

Invasive species can have catastrophic effects on an ecosystem.  From algae to jellyfish, ports around the world are faced with a problem, but first, it's necessary to understand how the problem got there.

Justin E. H. Smith "We are so presumptuous as to
wish to be known by all the world and even by those who will arrive
when we are no more. And we are so vain that the esteem of five or six
people who surround us amuses us and renders us content." --Blaise Pascal (tr. Jason Boone, the epigram to his 2002 poem, "Ho There, Raise Up the Tommy Lift!")*

Justin E. H. Smith "We are so presumptuous as to
wish to be known by all the world and even by those who will arrive
when we are no more. And we are so vain that the esteem of five or six
people who surround us amuses us and renders us content." --Blaise Pascal (tr. Jason Boone, the epigram to his 2002 poem, "Ho There, Raise Up the Tommy Lift!")*

Justin E. H. Smith "We are so presumptuous as to
wish to be known by all the world and even by those who will arrive
when we are no more. And we are so vain that the esteem of five or six
people who surround us amuses us and renders us content." --Blaise Pascal (tr. Jason Boone, the epigram to his 2002 poem, "Ho There, Raise Up the Tommy Lift!")*

Justin E. H. Smith "We are so presumptuous as to
wish to be known by all the world and even by those who will arrive
when we are no more. And we are so vain that the esteem of five or six
people who surround us amuses us and renders us content." --Blaise Pascal (tr. Jason Boone, the epigram to his 2002 poem, "Ho There, Raise Up the Tommy Lift!")*

Undoubtedly, it wasn't the holiday break that Research in Motion had in mind for its BlackBerry customers. On Tuesday night, a second e-mail outage hit BlackBerry customers -- following another one a week ago.

RIM acknowledged that "some BlackBerry customers in the Americas are currently experiencing delays in message delivery." It apologized "for any inconvenience," adding that its engineers were "actively working to resolve this issue for those impacted."

Undoubtedly, it wasn't the holiday break that Research in Motion had in mind for its BlackBerry customers. On Tuesday night, a second e-mail outage hit BlackBerry customers -- following another one a week ago.

RIM acknowledged that "some BlackBerry customers in the Americas are currently experiencing delays in message delivery." It apologized "for any inconvenience," adding that its engineers were "actively working to resolve this issue for those impacted." The company gave no indication as to the cause of the problems, or how long they would last.

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