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Published 1/31/2009 by mperez@techweb.com (Marin Perez) at InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs
It's been an interesting week in the mobile space, as Verizon had a strong quarter thanks to the Storm, Sprint said it would be axing 8,000 jobs, and Apple got an important patent for the iPhone. But there were a few stories that we didn't get to highlight, and I'll go over them after the jump.
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