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In other tech news yesterday, Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., has taken the big four mobile phone companies to task for the rapid increase in the price of text messages. Verizon, Spring, AT&T and, most recently, T-Mobile have all raised their prices to 20 cents per message, a doubling of what that same message cost just three years ago.

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