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AP – Investigators have linked a Bakersfield father to the disappearance of his 8-year-old daughter after tracing his cell phone to the same area where the girl was found, Kern County officials said Friday.

ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | Remember what it was like when the Amazon Kindle first came out? We’d gotten used to the screens on portable gadgets being bright, colorful, and guzzlers of battery power. Then the Kindle debuted with its “e-ink” screen, which showed crisp, black-and-white text and illustrations and brought us one step closer to fitting a library of actual books in a handheld device.

AFP – Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has sold five million shares in the US software giant, less than one percent of his holdings, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

AFP – Google, which purchased a leading flight software company earlier this year, has launched a new tool for finding hotels.

Appolicious – We all know what kind of powerhouse device the iPad 2 is for gaming. But what about other possibilities? Can any of the dozens of tablets powered by Google’s Android operating system go up against the iPad 2 in a free-for-all deathmatch? Here are five worthy options you should consider tapping into.

PC Magazine – Microsoft claims to be “working hard with Apple” to bring auto-save, versioning, and full-screen support to its Mac Office suite, but cautions against expecting the update any time soon.

AP – AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and four other telecom companies are offering a proposal to overhaul the $8 billion federal phone subsidy program to pay for high-speed Internet connections in rural and other underserved areas.

Reuters – Yahoo Inc got short-changed — that’s the view of analysts picking apart the complex deal it announced on Friday with Alibaba Group and SoftBank Corp over Chinese e-payments unit Alipay.

Reuters – Americans took to the phone lines and the Internet on Friday after President Barack Obama urged them again to call lawmakers and weigh in on a war over raising the U.S. debt limit that has sharply divided Congress.

Reuters – Hackers with the loose-knit group Anonymous said on Friday they had broken into the network of U.S. government contractor Mantech International Corp and posted some NATO-related correspondence online.