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NEWS ANALYSIS: RIM's BlackBerry devices, including the new BlackBerry Tour, are available on a variety of carriers' services, including AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Sprint. That matters to enterprise customers who rely more and more on their smartphones and other handheld devices. But does Apple realize that?
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Nokia's Symbian-powered, touch-screen-enabled N97 smartphone is packed with features-perhaps to a fault. In my tests of the device, I found that the N97's apparent kitchen-sink design philosophy yielded an ungainly user experience, albeit one that improved as I became accustomed to the N97's quirks.
Click on for a peek at the N97, and read our full review of the device.
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Research In Motion's BlackBerry Tour smartphone will arrive on the Sprint 3G network July 12, in addition to the Verizon Wireless network. The Tour, a world phone priced at $199, will operate on different wireless spectrums for each carrier, but offer customers of each access to voice and data services in hundreds of countries.
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Apple pushed out its iPhone OS 3.1 software and the accompanying SDK for developers early July 1, according to reports. Among the updates is the appearance of an MMS button in the Messages app. Is AT&T gearing up to flip the switch?
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Cisco Systems is close to integrating its Jabber instant messaging and collaboration tool into its WebEx Connect SAAS suite. The networking giant is also considering adding a Twitter-like status update tool to the cloud computing suite. Cisco aims to better compete with Microsoft, IBM and Google in the collaboration software space.
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TerreStar Networks launches what it claims will be the next generation of satellite mobile communications, delivering 3G voice, data and video communications to devices as compact as an iPhone. With a roaming agreement with AT&T and a new Windows satellite phone deploying chip sets capable of both cellular and satellite communications, TerreStar plans to offer its first services by the end of 2009.
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The 2009 Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston brought together vendors, analysts and customers looking for the best ways to take cutting edge web technologies such as social networking and Twitter-style micro-blogging and apply them to the challenges of business. While many companies recognize the value of these technologies for business use, they are hesitant to apply public services like Twitter and Facebook for sensitive business use. Many products at the conference focused on providing these types of features in a secure business friendly environment.
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Verizon Wireless reveals that Research In Motion’s new BlackBerry Tour, a 3G world phone that will offer calling in 220 countries and e-mail and Internet support in 175 countries, will go on sale July 12 for just under $200 after contract and rebate.
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Ziff Davis Enterprise v.p. Eric Lundquist interviews IBM's Sandy Carter at this year's (http://www.marketingprofs.com/events/7/conference/?adref=sbz524) Marketing Profs business to business conference in Boston. Sandy Carter is Vice President, SOA & WebSphere Marketing, Strategy and Channels for IBM Corporation and author of the SOA technology book: "The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0." In the interview, she explains that by bringing business discipline to the new era of social networks including Twitter and FaceBook, business marketers can develop new customer channels that can lead to increased sales and customer satisfaction.
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Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers and other officials at the Cisco Live event are pushing an aggressive plan to expand the company's reach beyond its networking roots and deeper into myriad spaces, from the data center to online collaboration to video to power distribution. Chambers pointed to 30 sectors that Cisco either will enter or grow in over the next 12 to 18 months. The moves promise to bring Cisco into even greater competition with the likes of HP and IBM.
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Cisco is considering offering Web-based alternatives to Microsoft's Office software as the networking giant expands on the Internet.
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Technology spending in the United States and worldwide will decline more steeply than anticipated, Forrester Research predicts in its quarterly IT economic report. However, the severe drop in spending in the first half of the year suggests that businesses will increase their IT investments in the second half as they see the recession beginning to ebb and a rebound on the horizon. Forrester expects the IT sector to bottom out in the third quarter, with spending increasing in the fourth quarter and into 2010.
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A blind man tracked by the FBI since he was a teenager was sentenced to prison recently for his role in hacking into a telephone system and intimidating a Verizon security investigator. The court sentenced him to 135 months in prison.
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The Supreme Court decision opens the way for cable companies to offer remote storage digital video recording services such as Cablevision's RS-DVR. Film studios and major broadcast networks say RS-DVRs violate the copyright on their content.
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Security researchers are tracking a Trojan that has swiped as many as 88,000 FTP credentials for organizations such as Symantec, McAfee, Amazon, Cisco and the Bank of America. According to researchers at Prevx, the compromises are part of an operation that has been in business for more than two years.
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