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T-Mobile has announced today that it has expanded its HSPA+ data network to nine new cities, making it available to over 100 million Americans.

The new markets are: Boston, Mass.; Erie, Penn.; Fresno, Palm Springs and San Diego, Calif.; Miami, Fla.; Richmond, Va.; Spokane, Wash.; and Topeka, Kan.

Furthermore, the carrier will double the theoretical peak speeds to 42 Mbps in 2011, a 100 percent jump from the current 21 Mbps max speeds.

The T-Mobile G2 will be the first handset to support HSPA+ when it launches in September.

That device has a theoretical peak speed of 14.4 Mbps, faster than Sprint’s 4G network.

To check if you have HSPA+ available in your area, check here: T-Mobile HSPA+ Coverage areas

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Small cap company Microvision has seen their stock price jump today after anonymous sources claimed that the upcoming Apple iPod Touch will include a Pico projector from the company.

The Pico projector, used in some phones and digital cameras, allows for owners to display their pictures on walls and other surfaces right from the device.

Sources claim the the addition of Pico projectors to the next-generation devices has been confirmed by channel checks in Taiwan.

Please be reminded this all speculation for the time being, but Microvision’s stock has jumped 19 percent so far on the rumor.

Apple is holding their annual September Media Event tomorrow.

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Microsoft has announced today that they will be releasing a special edition updated Xbox 360 controller, with a “transforming D-Pad.”

The updated D-pad design will transform for different uses. Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb explains and shows off the controller in the video below.

When gamers twist the D-pad, it pops up, revealing a raised plus sign.

Says Microsoft: “Select the traditional plus for distinct cardinal direction movement in games like “Halo: Reach” to change weapons and perform complicated combinations and deadly finishing moves in “Street Fighter” games, or rotate the D-pad to the disc format for sweeping motions in games such as “Pro Evolution Soccer 2011.” Choose your favorite controller set-up and experience unrivaled precision for all Xbox 360 games.”

The control comes bundled with a Play and Charge Kit and will sell for $65 when it hits on November 9th.

(Pic via Joystiq)

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Google has renewed its news content licensing deal with the AP this week, following months of negotiations.

The deal will allow Google to post full-text articles from the AP on Google News.

“We look forward to future collaborations, including on ways Google and AP can work together to create a better user experience and new revenue opportunities,” says Josh Cohen, a Google senior business product manager.

Says the AP: “Under the agreement, AP and Google will also work together in a number of new areas, such as ways to improve discovery and distribution of news.”

There was no word on the financials of the deal.

In January, after a negotiation dispute, Google stopped publishing AP stories. They began running them again in February.

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Google has rolled out the beta version of their Gmail Priority Inbox today, a feature that will automatically rearrange messages in a user’s inbox so the most important ones show up at the top.

For now, the feature is “experimental” and may never go fully live.

Reuters says “the motivation behind Priority Inbox is Google’s conviction that the problem of e-mail overload continues getting worse, forcing people to spend much time and effort managing their inbox both for personal and work-related matters.”

Priority Inbox is optional and users can switch it on or off at their choosing.

If you enable it, Gmail will divide the inbox into three sections; the “priority” box for important messages, the middle box for “starred” and “flagged” messages and the final box for everything else.

Adds Matthew Glotzbach, director of product management in Google’s Enterprise unit: “If you’re in meetings and you come back to your e-mail and you have five minutes between appointments and you have 50 e-mails, which five messages do you spend your time on in that window of time?”

“We see this as an ongoing evolution of the focus of Gmail, which has always been around addressing this problem of information overload,” Glotzbach noted.

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