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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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The Google Dream phone, which features a slide-out keypad, is being manufactured by Taiwan's HTC Corp and will be sold by T-Mobile, which plans to unveil the device at an event in New York on September 23. The Wall Street Journal said T-Mobile USA plans to release new data service plans in conjunction with the Google phone that will be "aggressively priced."
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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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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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Like RIM's original Pearl BlackBerry model, the first-ever flip BlackBerry comes loaded with multimedia features such as a video and music player and a 2-megapixel camera with flash, as well as a Web browser and an abridged keyboard. In the United States, T-Mobile will be the exclusive launch carrier of this BlackBerry that is to be made available in the coming months.
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Aligning business with information technology practices and management can be a tricky business. Baseline gets some advice from Forrester Research on how to best meld the functional aspects of business with key technology role players and everyday practices. Some of these tips include business metrics, pushing IT down the org chart and making business users more independent from IT.
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The Association of National Advertisers sent a letter objecting to the proposed Internet search advertising partnership between Yahoo and Google to government regulators reviewing the deal, the group said.
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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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Gartner said it expects market growth to slow to 11 percent from 16 percent last year, while in U.S. dollar terms growth would slow to 9 percent from 11 percent. The world's top cellphone maker Nokia has forecast the market will fall this year in euro terms.
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Microsoft released the Internet Explorer 8 browser (beta 2) which is a work in progress. Microsoft said the latest version of Internet Explorer (IE 8), which has a market share of about 75 percent, comes with new features to enhance privacy, ease-of-use, and security.
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For those online criminals who are not limited by the law, regulation and security technology, the ways of making money with online scams, identity theft, and hacking are limited only by criminal creativity. There is a thriving underworld of online criminals who are having a major impact on the lives of the innocent and the those trying to protect themselves in the age of security.
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The new Treo Pro will be sold by Vodafone and 02 in Europe, and by Telstra in Australia. In the United States, Palm does not have an agreement with a carrier to sell the phone, but it said enterprise demand is growing for unlocked phones that can work on any network.
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In the mobile software arena, major players--Apple with its iPhone, Google with its Android platform, RIM, Palm and others-- are duking it out for control of an emerging market where start-up applications on open platforms are winning consumers and business users alike. Will features that emphasize efficiency win, or will the gold medal go to apps that promise better integration with enterprise systems?
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Eight states put Internet-related complaints among their top-three consumer headaches in 2007 while 24 states had some form of online fraud in their top 10 complaints, according to the Center for American Progress (CAP), which worked with the Center for Democracy and Technology.
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Nearly 60 percent of 146 institutions surveyed in North America and Europe expect another major financial services firm to collapse in the next six months, and another 15 percent think it will happen in six to 12 months, according to a recent evaluation survey.
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