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Nokia World Kickoff Shines a Light on Smartphone Future of Embattled Company

It's the opening day of Nokia World, but trumpet its successes as it will, the cell phone giant is in trouble. It needs to reinvigorate its smartphone business, but can the first clutch of new phones in this market actually help?READ»

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Why Content Curation Is Here to Stay

For website content publishers and content creators, there’s a debate raging as to the rights and wrongs of curation. While content aggregation has been around for a while with sites using algorithms to find and link to content, ...READ»

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The Home Energy Management Market Heats Up

From startups to heavyweights, companies are betting that energy management will be the next big thing--a market worth $171 billion by 2014.READ»

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The Stock Market in Your Pocket

An inexpensive new app puts rich financial data on your smart-phone. Who wants it?READ»

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Business Cost Controls Increase Revenues

By using the virtual enterprise model that increases work-flow efficiency reducing client costs by over 45% and workforce carbon footprint by more than 25% resulting in sustainable clean technology for cleaner air and reduced commuter oil consumption.READ»

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Asking Your Website Visitors to Wait is Like Asking Them to Leave

How much thought do you give to page load speed? Waiting for a web page to load online is equivalent to the real world experience of waiting in a queue. Except online you can opt-out and go somewhere else incredibly easily. The impact of a slow website on visitor experience and on the efficiency of a website as a business, sales, and communication tool are significant.READ»

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Nokia Rocks the World: The Phone King's Plan to Redefine Its Business

Nokia already owns the global cell-phone market. Now Tero Ojanperä is launching the world's biggest delivery system for services, apps, and entertainment.READ»

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Is Your Slow Website Losing You Customers?

Waiting for a web page to load online is equivalent to the real world experience of waiting in a queue. Except online you can opt-out and go somewhere else incredibly easily. Forrester Research and Gartner Group report that ...READ»

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Xceedium a “Cool Vendor” for Innovative Solutions to Control and Track High-Risk Users

Company Recognized for Highly Efficient Vendor Access Control and Secure Remote AdministrationREAD»

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The Solid State Revolution

The death of moving parts means your stocking will be stuffed with smaller,faster, stronger -- and quieter -- gadgets. READ»

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Turbo-Charge Your Product Launch To Optimize Buzz

When launching a new product or service, go for the value, not the flash. Value builds revenue, company growth, future funding. Flash is transitory.Your public launch of a product or service will raise the profile of your ...READ»

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MTV Plants Its Flag in the Digital World

The network famously missed its chance to buy MySpace. Lesson learned. Now its president, Van Toffler, is investing in dozens of digital media projects. Its 2006 acquisition of Harmonix Music Systems, the maker of the video game Rock Band, could soon develop into a billion-dollar business. And more digital developments seem to surface almost daily, including the launch earlier in the week of MTVmusic.com, MTV's first serious attempt at a full-fledged music-video site; and today's announcement of a deal that will bring the Beatles' music to the Rock Band format.READ»

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Steve Ballmer’s Cloud Computing Ambitions for Microsoft

Inside Steve Ballmer’s push into Web services.READ»

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Intel Atom: Intel Makes Its Smallest Chip Ever

A completely reimagined computer chip from Intel drinks 10 times less power -- and puts the full Internet in the palm of your hand.READ»

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Noted Gartner Analyst Steven Prentice Updates His Predictions on Virtual Worlds

Steven Prentice, the noted Gartner analyst who predicted that by "by the end of 2011, 80 percent of active Internet users (and Fortune 500 enterprises) will have a ‘second life’, but not necessarily in Second Life" added ...READ»

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Innovation Infrastructure

This is installment four in my series on building a sustainable innovation culture. In installment one, I outlined the Five Pillars of Sustainable Innovation Culture. Installment two examined Executive Leadership, the first ...READ»

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Learn More Now

Picture a company cafeteria with overhead projectors, pads of paper, and pencils on all the tables. Is this the sign of an organization in desperate need of more conference rooms? No, it's the cafeteria at Siemens Power Transmission ...READ»

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Can Alex Bogusky Help Microsoft Beat Apple?

Alex Bogusky built the country's slickest ad shop using Apple products. His next challenge: Persuade people like him to buy Microsoft's stuff.READ»

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IT's Not about the Technology

Fast Interview: Gartner researcher Tom Austin on why your head of IT should be a cultural anthropologist and why you should think twice before you block YouTube.READ»

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iPhone Backlash

The much extolled iPhone has finally been released amongst a veritable storm of praise and acclamation into the hands of its adoring fans. But with all the praise must inevitably come some backlash. Just what are critics saying could be wrong with Apple's latest invention?READ»

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IBM.com's Man in the Hot Seat

Keeping IBM's Web site up and running is David Leip's nightmare-inducing responsibility. But the company's Webmaster sleeps better knowing he's built the site to keep going and going and going.READ»

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Hey, Big Spender

Will the glory days of tech spending ever return? The CEO of Gartner Inc. -- one of the few tech-research firms to forecast the economic downturn -- says companies will spend again, but more wisely than before.READ»

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Dawn of the Dead

Once one of the hottest companies in Silicon Valley, Sun Microsystems crashed with the dotcoms, but it kept pouring money into R&D. Now there are signs of a revival, thanks to a new CEO and a big black box.READ»

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We're With the Band

The new cultural tastemakers: you--and everyone else.READ»