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FCC Spanks Comcast For Traffic Blocking -- Thursday, August 21, 2008

The Federal Communications Commission has ordered Comcast to stop blocking peer-to-peer traffic and make other changes to the way it manages its network, or face the possibility of an immediate injunction.

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Source(s): InformationWeek

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American Airlines Launches In-Flight Internet -- Thursday, August 21, 2008

American Airlines will make broadband Internet service available on its Boeing 767-200 aircraft during nonstop flights between New York and San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Miami.

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Source(s): The Inquirer, InformationWeek

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IBM Building Business Resiliency in the Cloud -- Wednesday, August 20, 2008

IBM is investing $300 million in constructing Business Resilience centers around the world to enable customers to access business continuity services from the cloud.

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Source(s): IBM press release

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Oaisys Upgrades SMB Call Center Software -- Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Version 5 of the company's Tracer SMB-oriented call center software adds several new features and will also come with the Talkument voice documentation package.

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Source(s): CBR

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Salesforce Buys Software Maker InStranet -- Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Expanding beyond its CRM roots, SaaS leader Salesforce.com has announced the $31.5 million acquisition of InStranet, which specializes in call-center software.

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Source(s): InformationWeek, CNET

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SMB Ad Spending Stays Strong: Report -- Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Despite the economic climate, 81 percent of SMBs say they will spend as much as or more on advertising in the coming year, according to a new report.

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Source(s): Online Media Daily

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Microsoft Eases Virtualization Restrictions -- Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Microsoft announced that it is eliminating the extra fees customers must pay to move server software from one physical host to another, as well as the restrictions on how frequently that can be done.

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Source(s): InformationWeek, The Register

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Treo Pro Photos Leaked, Palm May Announce Today -- Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Photos and a video of the Palm Treo Pro briefly made it onto the Palm Web site, while one of its media agencies indicated that the new smartphone may be officially announced today.

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Source(s): The Register, CNET

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Apple Extends MobileMe Accounts 60 Days -- Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Apple is tacking on 60 days of free service to MobileMe accounts to thank users for their patience since the service's shaky start in July.

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Source(s): Macworld

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Microsoft Blog Post, Now MIA, Reveals Date for Office 14 Alpha -- Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Is Microsoft looking for people to alpha-test Office 14, the next version of its Office productivity suite?

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Source(s): Computerworld, ZDNet

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Mozilla, Others to Develop Smartphone/Laptop Hybrid -- Monday, August 18, 2008

Seven companies, including Mozilla, are working on a Linux-based mobile device that would fall somewhere in between a smartphone and a laptop.

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Source(s): InfoWorld

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HP Unveils Ultraportable Computers -- Monday, August 18, 2008

Hewlett-Packard has come out with three new small, light notebooks -- a ruggedized model and a tablet in the EliteBook line, and a bargain Compaq-branded model.

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Source(s): InformationWeek, CNET

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Dell Loses Bid For Cloud Computing Trademark -- Monday, August 18, 2008

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has denied Dell its application to trademark the phrase "cloud computing."

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Source(s): PC World

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Lenovo Takes on MacBook Air (Again) With ThinkPad X301 -- Monday, August 18, 2008

Six months after Lenovo unveiled the ThinkPad X300 laptop, its first challenge to Apple's MacBook Air, expect an ultraportable follow-up from the vendor: the ThinkPad X301.

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Source(s): The Tech Herald, DailyTech

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Microsoft Starts Windows 7 Blog -- Friday, August 15, 2008

Microsoft has launched a blog to keep the world abreast of progress on its next-gen Windows 7 operating system.

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Source(s): Redmond Magazine, InformationWeek

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Sun Open Sources Java ME Tools -- Friday, August 15, 2008

Sun Microsystems has open-sourced its Java toolkit for building mobile applications under the "GPLv2 with Classpath Exception" license.

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Source(s): CNET, The Register

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Google Readies Smartphone for Mid-September Release -- Friday, August 15, 2008

Rumors appear to be solidifying that Google's Android-based smartphone will hit market next month.

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Source(s): Wired, VentureBeat

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Intel Unveils Tech That Remotely Wakes Sleeping PCs -- Friday, August 15, 2008

Wakey, wakey: Intel is adding Remote Wake technology to four of its motherboards, enabling users to stir their desktop computers out of sleep mode from afar.

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Source(s): Computerworld, PC Magazine

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Report: SMB Tech Spending to Increase Steadily Through 2012 -- Thursday, August 14, 2008

According to new research from Compass Intelligence, small and midsized firms will increase their information and communications technology (ICT) spending by 6 to 8 percent a year through 2012, accounting for $413 billion that year.

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Source(s): InformationWeek

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Banking Giant Considering Switch to iPhone -- Thursday, August 14, 2008

Worldwide banking presence HSBC is considering moving from the BlackBerry to the iPhone as its standard mobile device for its hundreds of thousands of staff.

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Source(s): ZDNet

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Intel Launches Tiny Solid-State Drive -- Thursday, August 14, 2008

Intel has announced a small, light solid-state drive (SSD), as well as technology to enable Windows to take better advantage of flash memory.

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Source(s): The Inquirer, CNET

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Sony Ericsson Touchscreen Smartphone Due in October -- Thursday, August 14, 2008

Reports are that the Sony Ericsson Experia X1, the company's first Windows Mobile-based smartphone, featuring a touchscreen and slideout keyboard, will hit the market in early October.

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Source(s): The Register, IntoMobile

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Entrepreneur Launches Social Network For Small Biz -- Thursday, August 14, 2008

Entrepreneur is the latest to jump on the social networking bandwagon with the announcement of Entrepreneur Connect, a social network for small business people that strives to be a "business-to-business marketplace designed specifically for entrepreneurs."

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Source(s): Folio

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Best Buy to Sell iPhones -- Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Starting some time after Labor Day, Best Buy will begin retail sales of the Apple iPhone.

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Source(s): ChannelWeb

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Lenovo Introduces "Mobile Workstation" -- Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Lenovo debuted the ThinkPad W700, a behemoth notebook to serve the needs of the "most data- and graphics-intensive users."

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Source(s): Business Wire via MarketWatch

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