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  1. Blackberry, not Twitter, fueled the fire under London's riots
    Protesters used BBM chat to communicate
  2. Tablet makers have a better shot against iPad In UK
    Apple controls 80 percent of all tablet sales in US
  3. NYTimes launches beta620
    Site features experimental projects from Times developers
  4. 200K people sued for allegedly sharing material online
    BitTorrent users targeted in lawsuit
  5. Even fake news gets a paywall
    The Onion testing a metered pay model
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