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March 16, 2010

If Battery Fails, iPad Will Be Replaced AT&T Extends Data To Feature Phones Google Expected To Pull Plug on China Intel Offers $125 Speedy 40GB SSD FCC Ready To Outline $7.2B Plan Windows Phone 7 Uses Familiar Skills To overcome a key customer objection, Apple has issued a guarantee replacement policy that could help instill consumer confidence in its pricey new iPad tablet device. But is the guarantee good enough? AT&T's lower-end feature phones are becoming smarter. The carrier has announced that it will offer "smartphone-like experiences" with data services on four of its new, less-expensive models. Google seems closer to ending operations in China after threatening to pull out. Google's Chinese-language search engine is the only major foreign competitor in the communist nation. Intel says booting up PCs will be faster with its new 40GB X25-V Value SATA solid-state drive used in dual-drive notebook configurations or added to a desktop with an existing hard drive. The Federal Communications Commission is ready to outline to Congress how it will spend $7.2 billion in stimulus funds to provide high-speed broadband Internet access to millions of Americans. Microsoft showed off its Windows Phone 7 Series development platform at MIX10. The new platform promises to give developers and designers the ability to use established technologies.   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   If Battery Fails, iPad Will Be Replaced   AT&T Extends Data To Feature Phones Google Expected To Pull Plug on China Site may continue away from censors.   FULL STORY Intel Offers $125 Speedy 40GB SSD Rival OCZ will market to gamers.   FULL STORY FCC Ready To Outline $7.2B Plan Broadband map will be contentious.   FULL STORY Windows Phone 7 Uses Familiar Skills Expression Blend codes with visuals.   FULL STORY Cybercriminals Steal Virtual Objects Get Rid of Graffiti with Your iPhone Fighting Flood of Bogus Tech Products Recession Recovery: One-Hit Wonder Remove 'Bloatware' from a Win 7 PC Tiny Laptops Offer Fancy Features Computer gamers are increasingly finding that there's a serious side to their virtual fun: their hard-earned virtual objects are being stolen from them, and in some cases their entire game as well. Graffiti? There's an app for that. The old-school practice of American graffiti may have met its match in some high-tech programs designed to report and remove the blight from city and private property. In the past five years, counterfeit computer chips, routers, and other electronic products have become an epidemic, with fake gear costing the IT industry an estimated $100 billion a year. The recovery is losing steam, with the U.S. economy growing at half the brisk 5.9 percent pace at which the government estimated it grew last quarter. Was the year-end growth spurt a one-hit wonder? Buy a new Win 7 computer, and you'll likely be in for some surprises -- both pleasant and unpleasant. On the unpleasant side will be the many applications PC makers preinstall on their computers. A rash of new laptops set for display at the CeBIT computing trade show underlines the growing shift in the market to tinier machines with fancier features such as 3-D graphics and touch screens.   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   Cybercriminals Steal Virtual Objects   Get Rid of Graffiti with Your iPhone Fighting Flood of Bogus Tech Products Counterfeit gear is now an 'epidemic.'   FULL STORY Recession Recovery: One-Hit Wonder Growth slows after year-end spurt.   FULL STORY Remove 'Bloatware' from a Win 7 PC Less is more sometimes in computing.   FULL STORY Tiny Laptops Offer Fancy Features Like touch screens and 3-D graphics.   FULL STORY Enterprise I.T. More Intel Offers $125 Speedy 40GB SSD Intel Core i7 Extreme Boosts Laptops Hardware More Lenovo Plans Mobile-Internet Focus Turing Award Goes to PC Designer Software More Software for Cross-Platform Gaming CA Expands Cloud with Nimsoft Deal Communications More AT&T Extends Data To Feature Phones China Insists Google Obey the Law Network Security More VeriSign Plans $300M Tech Upgrade Online Censorship Is Getting Craftier Wireless Tech More Lenovo Plans Mobile-Internet Focus Palm Teeters in Crowded Market Linux/Open Source More Google's Chrome Browser Moves Up Opera's iPhone Browser Audition Apple/Macintosh More Apple COO Gets $5 Million Bonus If Battery Fails, iPad Will Be Replaced Microsoft/Windows More Windows Phone 7 Uses Familiar Skills MS Assistive Technology for Seniors World Wide Web More Google Expected To Pull Plug on China FCC Ready To Outline $7.2B Plan Data Storage More Could New Cisco Router Save the Net? German Court Overturns Data Law E-Commerce More @Anywhere Puts Twitter on Big Sites BBB Customer Complaints Are Up Personal Tech More @Anywhere Puts Twitter on Big Sites Intel Offers $125 Speedy 40GB SSD Tech Trends More Geolocation at South by Southwest Social Networks Boost TV Ratings Press Releases More Coverity Offers Software Safety Audits BlackBerry Users Like Android

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Enterprise Hardware Spotlight

Intel Boosts PC Speed with New $125 Solid-State Drive Intel says booting up PCs will be faster with its new 40GB X25-V Value SATA solid-state drive used in dual-drive notebook configurations or added to a desktop with an existing hard drive.   iPad Will Read Books Aloud, Support Open EPUB Format Along with accepting advance orders for its iPad, Apple has revealed a details about how e-books will be handled. The iPad will read the contents of pages and use the open EPUB format.   HP Turns Steve Jobs' Flash Snub Against Apple's iPad No watered-down Internet. No sacrifices. That's the promise Hewlett-Packard Vice President and CTO Phil McKinney offered consumers in a blog post about the PC giant's upcoming tablet.

Mobile Enterprise Spotlight

Lenovo Plans Mobile-Internet Business Focus Lenovo Group expects wireless Internet products to account for up to 80 percent of its sales within five years as it pursues expansion in faster-growing emerging markets, CEO Yang Yuanqing said.   Palm Teeters in Crowded Smartphone Market Last year, Palm thought it had all the pieces for a turnaround: A new CEO known for making the iPod a household name, a sleek new smartphone called the Pre and fresh, intuitive operating software.   Legal System Catches Up To Texting Jurors Enough with the tweets, the blogs, the Internet searches. That's the message being communicated by courts across the country as jurors using their portable electronic devices cause chaos.

Enterprise Technology Spotlight

Intel Boosts PC Speed with New $125 Solid-State Drive Intel says booting up PCs will be faster with its new 40GB X25-V Value SATA solid-state drive used in dual-drive notebook configurations or added to a desktop with an existing hard drive.   Intel Core i7 Extreme Boosts Portable Workstations Intel has previewed platforms using its Core i7 Extreme Edition processor. Although the processor is aimed at the gaming market, analysts said there are also clear business applications.   New Google Feature Will Hunt for Products Nearby Google can tell you if a product you want to buy is in a nearby store. Among the Google search results, click on the "in stock nearby" link to find out which retailers have the product in stock.

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