"The vast scale of services like Amazon S3 or Google Apps provide new ways to establish or augment backup and disaster recovery plans. Realistically, many large corporations won't trust their data to Google or Amazon.com (and they probably shouldn't). However, they will trust IBM, AT&T, and other big companies, as they start to expand their offerings."

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"A researcher claims that toll transponders can be cloned, allowing drivers to pass for free."

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"USTelematics Announces Agreement to Provide Clearwire WiMax Service with Voyager Mobile IPTV"

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"ConnecTech is AT&T's new home electronics installation team. For a fee, the company will send experts to a customer's home to set up and install systems like wall-mounted TVs, home networks and PCs. The service is similar to Best Buy's Geek Squad. Customers need not be existing AT&T subscribers for services like phone or Internet in order to call in ConnecTech."

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"If consumer Voice-over-IP (VoIP) is surging, why are VoIP equipment revenues -- especially in a market segment that includes gargantuan players such as Cisco Systems Inc. and Alcatel-Lucent -- softening? "

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"A man who has been paralysed for the past 20 years is able to walk again thanks to a revolutionary electronic exoskeleton."

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"Racked up about $12,000 in calls to the Middle East and Asia"

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Not shocking!  -Carl

"A new TV commercial shows kids eating hot dogs in a school cafeteria and one little boy's haunting lament: 'I was dumbfounded when the doctor told me I have late-stage colon cancer.' It's a startling revelation in an ad that vilifies one of America's most beloved, if maligned, foods, while stoking fears about a dreaded disease."

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"Medical identity theft is increasing, in part because of the wealth of personal information available in medical records, experts say. And much of this identity theft is coming from within the medical community."

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"Want to get a lawyer's attention? Just mention "data wiping" and "litigation" in the same breath. You might need to administer CPR. Yet there are cases where both sides recognize the need to thoroughly eradicate electronic data, such as when an employee has spirited away proprietary information to a new job and the old employer needs assurance it won't be exploited. It's a simple-sounding task that's harder and more expensive than many lawyers and judges appreciate."

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"Dish Network Corp. has begun to roll out standard-def and high-def programming in the bandwidth-saving MPEG-4 format, beating DirecTV Group Inc. (NYSE: DTV - message board) and cable competitors to the punch."

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"The Misys-Allscripts deal involves two companies with a heavy Triangle presence. Misys Healthcare, a unit of the British company Misys that has headquarters in Raleigh, has about 700 local workers. Allscripts’ HealthMatics unit, which is based in Cary, has about 300 local workers."

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"Given how cheap storage has become, it's understandable that enterprises are expanding arrays to house growing data. But stocking up on hardware and software to hold more and more information is a costly misstep...Compliance regulations and legal concerns are pressuring IT to keep every bit and byte of data just in case a litigation issue arises, and since storage costs are decreasing, the urge to push another box into play can be tempting."

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"We asked several experts to rank their top mobile devices for running enterprise applications. While the BlackBerry remains the favorite of many and the iPhone is gaining cred in the enterprise, some other contenders are holding their own."

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"Research In Motion's BlackBerry device paved the way for smartphone acceptance in the enterprise, but business is embracing other devices as well. Apple's decision to enable Microsoft Exchange on the iPhone made a huge difference for that device, for example."

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