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AS more small businesses rely on e-mail and instant messaging for their communications, they would do well to use a number of inexpensive methods to preserve privacy and ensure that messages are read only by the intended recipient.
Even the smallest of businesses can make use of these security tips and tools, none of which [...]

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AT&T plans to buy the rural phone company Centennial Communications for $944 million in cash to expand its wireless network in Puerto Rico and other regions of the United States. The deal comes amid a wave of mergers in the rural telecom industry, which is struggling with slower wireless growth and declining home phone lines [...]

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Apple’s new executive in charge of iPods and iPhones must stop work immediately because he may have violated an agreement with his former employer, I.B.M., a New York judge ruled. The executive, Mark Papermaster, left for Apple last month. I.B.M. sued him, saying the move violated an employment contract in which he agreed [...]

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Facebook is reportedly working on a digital music venture aimed at competing with MySpace Music
An article published in the New York Post indicates Facebook founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg wants to follow in MySpace’s footsteps and offer a digital music store for the number one social networking web site.
Facebook isn’t interested in [...]

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This week is a busy one for Toshiba; along with a trio of Porteges and a boatload of Satellites, the company also introduced two new Tecras. (Can a partridge in a pear tree be far behind?)

The 14.1-inch Tecra M10 and 15.4-inch Tecra A10 are a refresh of the company’s M9 and A9 [...]

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Deal subject to shareholder approval in both camps
AMD and Broadcom have entered into an agreement that would net Broadcom AMD’s Digital TV business. The deal will cost Broadcom $192.8 million in cash. Broadcom says that the acquisition still needs to get AMD shareholder approval and it hopes that the deal will be complete in Q4 [...]

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NVIDIA brushes aside the latest reports of its chipset demise
NVIDIA has been making the news quite a bit in the past few days. Earlier this week, there was speculation that NVIDIA could be in a prime position to provide chipsets for Apple’s next generation MacBook notebooks.

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Hewlett-Packard has merged its Voodoo PC business unit with its consumer business, the company said Wednesday.
Voodoo’s laptops and desktops will now be sold alongside HP’s consumer Compaq Presario and Pavilion PC lines, said Ann Finnie, an HP spokeswoman. “It is just the next step of integration into the business units that deliver Compaq Presario and [...]

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iTunes App Store(Source: Apple)Three scenarios for App Store add between 1 and 3% to Apple’s operating income
With the announcement this week of the new iPhone 3G and the pending launch of the much anticipated App Store, analysts are saying that the Apple App Store could balloon into a $1.2 billion business by 2009.
The [...]

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HP’s dx2400/dx2450 AMD Business Class desktop(Source: Reuters)New Business Class computers will have configurations with 24-month stability and longevity

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