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David Kernell, 20, of Knoxville, turned himself in and will appear before a U.S. judge on Wednesday, the Justice Department said. He faces up to 5 years in prison if convicted.
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The Storm -- the latest BlackBerry aimed at the broad retail market with service from Verizon-- comes with a touch screen that depresses slightly when it is pressed, RIM said. This version of the BlackBerry will place RIM as a company more directly in competition with Apple and its popular iPhone.
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In a poll in Australia, both men and women picked relaxation as the activity that made them happiest, but that is where the similarity between the sexes ends. Just over half of men said happiness meant surfing the Internet, playing online games or accessing social network sites such as Facebook, compared with only 39 percent of women.
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Baseline takes a close look at the origins of the Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment (ESME)--an enterprise social networking and microblogging collaboration application initially-based on SAP technology. With all the social networking tools that live on the open, free Internet, like-minded application developers have come together to build a more risk-averse, secure and deeply collaborative social network that can have most of the benefits of social networks, yet live behind corporate firewalls.
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Baseline talks to the experts on which Web 2.0, social networking applications and customer-focused community capabilities they think have the most potential for growth and influence in the Enterprise. These Web applications in areas like microblogging, product comparison and collaborative work spaces are considered up and coming players in an already-crowded, competitive Web 2.0 market.
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Google's growing share of Web search and, by extension, its even larger role in the related market for Web search advertising, has lead rivals and some industry trade groups to complain to competition regulators in the United and Europe.
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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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Google has already taken on Microsoft for productivity and Web browsing software. Google's Android software is taking aim at Microsoft's Windows Mobile; Symbian, in which Nokia is an investor; and Apple's iPhone, which dominate the smart phone market. Google's director of mobile platforms, told Reuters that Android's success hinges on the reception of the first phone, due out later this month.
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Written references could become old hat for hiring managers with one in five saying they use social networking sites to research job candidates -- and a third of them dismissing the candidate after what they discover. A survey by online job site CareerBuilder.com found 22 percent of hiring managers screened potential staff via social networking profiles, up from 2006 numbers.
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A blogger who accused Morocco's monarchy of encouraging a culture of dependency where loyalty is rewarded with favors has been jailed for showing disrespect for King Mohammed, his family and rights groups said. Mohamed Erraji wrote in an online newspaper Hespress that the north African kingdom had been destroyed by the practice of handing out charity or gifts such as taxi licenses to a lucky few, which encouraged people to beg.
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Google used to store such data for 18 months, but has now trimmed that duration to nine months. Until a year-and-a-half ago, Google had kept personally identifiable information about its Web users on company computers for an indefinite amount of time, according to a Microsoft executive.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced a curved aluminum and glass nano -- the best-selling iPod -- for $149 with 8 gigabytes of storage, $50 less than the predecessor model, and a 16-gigabyte version for $199, with up to 24 hours of music playback or four hours of video. He also rolled out a thinner, $229 version of the Internet-connecting iPod touch with rounded edges and 8 gigabytes of storage.
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IBM is announcing more then 30 new or upgraded products or services that are the result of a $2 billion investment over the last three years involving thousands of IBM researchers and eight acquisitions of data storage start-ups. Even as the economy slows and businesses move to slash spending on computers and network gear, sales of storage will continue to spiral -- at least until someone invents a way for companies to stop collecting so much data, analysts say.
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Research In Motion (RIM) sold 5.6 million smartphones in April through June, up from 2.5 million a year ago, as it found new clients beyond its main business market with its BlackBerry device. Apple share of global smartphone sales fell in the first quarter of 2008 as it sold down inventories of first-generation iPhones before the launch of the iPhone 3G.
Opinion
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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