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CNN - Help for social media mayhem
It wasn't until a man diagnosed with measles ate at her New Jersey diner that Connie Correia Fisher, co-owner of The Pop Shop, discovered that the only thing that spreads faster than an infectious disease is bad news. "We had every major TV station here. All the papers were here, and people we...
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The Globe and Mail - When the Internet runs out of addresses
(03-Aug-11) Earlier this year, there were a smattering of media reports about the Internet running out of addresses. People who don鈥檛 spend their days immersed in the Web world could be forgiven for wondering if this was another looming technology 鈥渃risis鈥� like the Y2K bug. The answer is no, b...
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Mercury News.com - Biz Break: Adobe looks to future of signatures and Apple rides a strong wave
Adobe added to its ubiquitous PDF document creation and management platform on Monday with the purchase of a Palo Alto-based electronic-signature company called EchoSign. The San Jose software company had been attempting to develop its own such service, recently beta testing it, but decided to...
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Redmond Developer News - Infragistics Charts a New Course for Windows Phone
(18-Jul-11) Infragistics Inc. released a suite of its data visualization controls for Windows Phone developers at the end of June, after previewing the mobile UI technology in April. The XAML mobile controls, which support Windows Phone 7 gestures and the Metro UI, are available to licensed users...
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Public CIO - Application Consolidation - Where the Real Savings Is
(27-Jun-11) As CIOs work through the thorny issues involved in consolidating IT hardware and personnel, another challenge appears on the horizon: dealing with the 鈥渁pplication bloat鈥� that has built up within agencies over the years. In 2009, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick issued an executiv...
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CBC News Online - Final Nortel patents up for auction
(27-Jun-11) The last of Nortel's assets 鈥� patents for Internet search, mobile video and wireless networks that can be used in consumer technology 鈥� go up for auction Monday, ending an era for the bankrupt Canadian telecom company. Internet search engine giant Google has started the bidding at ...
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The Globe and Mail - Five reasons to buy a PlayBook - and two reasons not to
(3-Jun-11) With its new PlayBook, Waterloo, Ont.-based 91制片厂 In Motion Ltd. seeks a stake in the exploding tablet market. It faces an uphill battle, though, particularly against the Apple iPad, which is already in its second generation and owns a massive chunk of the tablet market. But BlackBe...
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CRM Magazine - Geolocation: Advertising's Future or 1984 Revisited?
(01-Jun-11) Airstrip One, Oceania, the setting of George Orwell鈥檚 science fiction novel 1984, was once considered unrealistic and even ridiculous. Constant war plagued the imaginary province, and the government manipulated its citizens with mind control tactics and public surveillance. In fact, p...
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SearchManufacturingERP.com - More manufacturers turning to Microsoft SharePoint collaboration
(17-May-11) For Tom Gill, information technology has enabled the steady growth and globalization of Plantronics Inc., the Santa Cruz, Calif.-based headset manufacturer where he works as CIO and vice president of IT. Over the past decade, Microsoft SharePoint collaboration has played an increasing...
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