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Leaked: WinPhone 7 Series dev to use almost all managed code
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Google buys reMail iPhone app, then pulls it from App Store
For reasons yet to be revealed, search giant Google has acquired San Francisco-based reMail, makers of the reMail e-mail client for iPhone OS. The company promptly pulled the application from Apple's App Store, however, leaving users perplexed as to the reasons why.
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