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SAN JOSE, Calif. — With the release of a footrest-size product, Cisco Systems has disrupted the political ties among the world’s largest technology companies and thrust itself into a new, hostile market.
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John Chambers, center, chief of Cisco, describing the new product via a videoconference.
On Monday, Cisco [...]

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Wal-Mart Stores is striding into the market for electronic health records, seeking to bring the technology into the mainstream for physicians in small offices, where most of America’s doctors practice medicine.
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Wal-Mart’s move comes as the Obama administration is trying [...]

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Investors worried about a deepening recession cherry-picked stocks Monday, sending technology shares higher and financials and blue chips lower. The Dow Jones industrials were down, but the technology-laden Nasdaq composite index showed a modest gain.
The market’s concerns were focused on two fronts: the economic stimulus proposal that is now before the Senate, and a possible [...]

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Within the next few months, Cisco Systems, the largest maker of networking equipment, plans to release a product that threatens to shake up the technology industry and put the company on a collision course with traditional partners like Hewlett-Packard and I.B.M.
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SAY goodbye to the largest leveraged buyout in history.
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The $50 billion takeover of BCE, parent of the phone giant Bell Canada, ended late Wednesday night, bringing the recent era of blockbuster corporate buyouts to an end.
The move was expected after BCE’s auditor recently declared that [...]

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This holiday, cellphone makers and carriers are pushing some shiny new toys: phones with touch-sensitive screens like the one on the AppleiPhone.
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The Samsung Omnia from Verizon, based in Windows Mobile, will be in stores soon, selling for $249.
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Ask.com, still losing market share to Google and Yahoo, revamps its web site yet again
Internet search engine Ask.com has revamped its web site for the third time since 2005 in another effort to increase its market share against Google and Yahoo.
“On average, it takes consumers three clicks to find what they are searching [...]

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iPhone browser grows 58% market share in one month
One of the most popular Smartphones around right now is the Apple iPhone. The launch of the iPhone 3G has only helped make the device even more popular with users thanks to faster download speeds and new features.
Along with increased sales of the iPhone thanks to the [...]

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Dell left the DAP market in 2003 after poor sales
Apple is by far the 700-pound gorilla in the digital audio player (DAP) market. Apple’s lead in the field is staggering, according to analyst firm NPD Group Apple holds a massive 71% of the U.S. MP3 player market.

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Dell is going small – really small.
The computer maker today unveiled a mini desktop PC that is 80 percent smaller than the average desktop minitower and uses 70 percent less energy. The Dell Studio Hybrid runs Intel’s Core 2 Duo processor and Microsoft’s Windows Vista.
“Our goal was to design a desktop that fits in the [...]

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