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RIM announced the Blackberry Pearl Flip 8220. The new phone is a Quad-Band GSM smartphone that features a 320×240 pixel internal screen and a SureType keyboard. The exterior of the phone is equipped with an extra screen, a 2.0 mega pixel camera, and hardware buttons that control various features of the Pearl Flip.

Additional wireless features include Bluetooth 2.0, 802.11b Wi-Fi with UMA support, and assisted-GPS. In addition to the BlackBerry email and messaging software, DataViz’s Documents to Go, BlackBerry Media Sync, BlackBerry Maps, and an enhanced HTML web browser also come with the device. Voice-activated dialing, background noise cancellation, support for MP3 ringtones, and and enhanced speakerphone round out the features of the 8220.

Google is working on digitally archiving millions of pages from old newspapers. T extensive project began in 2006. They started their work with the Washington Post and the New York Times to index all of the existing digital archives and to allow them to be found when searched for through Google’s technology.

Now they are working harder then ever to expand the initiative. Their goal is to make every story that was ever printed available; “from the smallest local weekly paper up to the largest national daily,” according to a post on Google’s official blog.

Apple sent out a mass e-mail to a handful of reporters inviting them to a special event September 9th in San Francisco. The invitation showed a man dancing while he was listening to an iPod and the words “Playing Soon” and “Let’s Rock” were displayed.

Analysts began to think amongst themselves to try to guess what it is that Apple has hopes to reveal and how big it could be. “It’s got to be new iPods. That’s 100 percent certain,” Needham & Co analyst Charles Wolf told Reuters. “The only question I cannot answer is whether they will also do new MacBooks.”