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The Apple invitation said only: "The spotlight turns to notebooks." Occasionally, Apple unveils revolutionary new approaches at such events, but analysts shrugged when asked about the possibility.
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One of the jewels in China's cultural crown, the sprawling complex in the heart of the capital already gets tens of thousands of real-life visitors each day. But now online tourists can also watch the Qing dynasty emperor feast at dinner, train fighting crickets and feed them with blood-fattened mosquitoes, or practice archery with the help of a courtesan.
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AMD plans to spin off its manufacturing plants into a joint venture with Abu Dhabi to get a cash injection and shrink debt to better compete against larger rival Intel. Wall Street approves with stock purchases of AMD.
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From fighting patent trolls to establishing a coder's rights policy to protecting online civil liberties, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an organization dedicated to helping to define the gray area between the law, the rights of individuals and technology practices. This nonprofit has gained admiration across the board, from workaday admins and tech-savvy executives to rank-and-file geeks, for its 18-year-long crusade to protect individual rights to privacy and free speech on the Internet. What these supporters might not be aware of is that the EFF has its own business interests in mind, as well.
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Read about my headset/microphone, USB port hub, Digital Hotspotter, modem, printer and gateways.
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Microsoft is making a huge stock reinvestment in itself and upping its quarterly dividend while also allowing for debt financing for general corporate purposes.
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Five years ago, billionaire investor Warren Buffett called credit default swaps -- complex derivatives originally designed to protect banks from deadbeat borrowers -- a "time bomb" and "financial weapons of mass destruction" and directed the insurance arm of his Berkshire Hathaway to exit the business.
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While neither Ingram Micro or Dell mentioned the financial sector specifically, they were the first major technology companies to warn investors. Lehman Brothers collapsed, Merrill Lynch is being taken over, and insurer American International Group is fighting for its survival. Is more downturn on technology spending to come?
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In the new book, "Click: What Millions of People are Doing Online and Why It Matters," author Bill Tancer said analyzing web searches gave a wider picture of society and people's behavior. Tancer, who does research at Hitwise, an Internet tracking company, said one of the major shifts in Internet use in the past decade had been the fall off in interest in pornography or adult entertainment sites because younger adults are on social networking sites.
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HP will cutr 7.5 percent of its work force seeking to realize savings from its acquisition of Electronic Data Systems (EDS). HP will carry out the workforce reductions of EDS and HP employees over the next three years. Nearly half of the job reductions will take place in the United States. EDS was headquartered in Plano, Texas, near Dallas.
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Google sees Android as an open-source platform for designing mobile devices, saying it will encourage innovation by allowing outside software developers to tinker with the system and create better mobile programs and services. Industry insiders who have worked on Google's Android mobile operating system say it will struggle in the near term and will take time to match the consumer enthusiasm generated by Apple when its iPhone redefined the touch-screen phone market and greatly improved mobile Web surfing.
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The consortium of Hollywood studios, retailers, service providers, and consumer electronics and information technology companies, called the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, or DECE, is working on a "uniform digital media experience" but won't announce details until the Consumer Electronics Show. The consortium said it will call for interoperability of devices and websites, and usage rules that allow consumers to copy content onto household playback devices and to burn their content to physical media.
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Sure, the iPhone is a consumer darling, but that doesn't mean the iPhone can't get down to business, too. Here are some iPhone applications that are winning enterprise-minded fans and helping workers stay connected to the business applications and business software they use frequently, plus a few fresh iPhone business apps that are new to an emerging application hungry iPhone audience.
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Managers should play a major role in ensuring that their companies adhere to ethical online privacy policies. Using spyware, web monitoring software or other Internet monitoring techniques to track and document the behavior of your customers needs to be managed with restraint in order to protect the privacy of individuals.
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This year, with high energy and food prices, the housing slump and credit market crisis muting consumer demand, Wall Street is bracing for a subdued performance from the technology industry--gadgets, devices, gaming consoles and computers--even during its busiest manufacturing season for the Christmas-spending holidays.
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