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Does Merging Android, Symbian into a Single OS Make Sense?

Symbian, the open-source mobile operating system that powers the largest share of smart phones on the market, and Android, Google's much-ballyhooed open-source mobile operating...

Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook Connect Is the Future

One thing Facebook execs have down pat is slamming the door on reporters' questions. If they don't want to answer something, they'll tell you...

Yahoo Shouldn’t Have Let Icahn Come a-Board

Business is a sophisticated game of give and take. In the protracted case of Microsoft trying to bludgeon Yahoo into submission so it could...

Blogger Puts Dems on Network Neutrality Record

Every major Senate Democratic challenger this fall has gone on the record as supporting network neutrality, largely as a result of blogger Matt Stoller,...

Hackers Expanding Web 2.0 Assaults

With Black Hat only a few weeks away and the security industry gearing up for its yearly feast of cutting-edge research and exploit demonstrations,...

Web-Style Audience Responses in Real-World Meetings

Traditional thinking tends to always favor in-person meetings and training over virtual Web-based replacements. Most people would say that while Web-based meetings and conferences...

What Can You Do with an IT Confidence Index?

Recruiting and staffing company Technisource, a subsidiary of the ginormous staffing company Spherion, says that IT worker confidence has "reached its lowest level since...

This Week In Emerging Technology – July 24th

Here are the emerging technologies stories for the week of July 21st.Put the CPU in the Fridge - An interesting project at Purdue University...

Nokia, Qualcomm Settle Patent Disputes

Nokia and Qualcomm ended a long-running patent dispute July 23 with a 15-year licensing agreement. The deal ends all litigation between the two companies,...

Google Introduces Knol as Wikipedia Alternative

Google has formally released to the public Knol, its alternative encyclopedia service to Wikipedia. Check out the page here at your own risk; it...