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Amazon cloud computing service unveils eBay auction-style pricing

Amazon's cloud computing division is unveiling an eBay-style auction service that will let users bid on unused virtual server capacity. Read full story

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Pocket camcorders, easy extra storage, touchscreen widget players, and game consoles -- unaffordable? Think again.

Tech mergers and acquisitions to grow in 2010
After a glacially slow start to 2009 in the mergers and acquisitions market, tech companies are buying again.

Steampunk Tech Mods: A 19th-Century Take on 21st-Century PCs and Gadgets
If Sherlock Holmes -- or Jack the Ripper -- had owned our technology, his equipment might have looked like this.

Google Nexus One Smartphone Could Hurt Android
The forthcoming Google "Nexus One" smartphone could weaken the Android smartphone operating system by further complicating purchase decisions for business and personal customers. Not all Android phones are alike, and that creates a problem.

Annual revenue run rate for Cisco TelePresence is $200 million
During this month's Cisco Financial Analyst Conference, Chairman and CEO John Chambers finally revealed the annual revenue run rate of Cisco's highly touted and much ballyhooed - TelePresence technology.

Oracle-Sun merger gains favor in Europe
Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems seems set for regulatory clearance in the European Union. The companies' latest promises to safeguard competition in the market for database software, make the Commission optimistic that the case will have a satisfactory outcome, it said Monday.

Dell PowerEdge servers and blades to ship with Fibre Channel over Ethernet adapters
Dell announced last week that it will OEM and embed QLogic's 8100 Series Converged Network Adapters in its Dell PowerEdge rack, tower and rack-mounted servers. The Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) adapters will be integrated specifically into Dell's Intel Xeon 5500 Nehalem processor-based PowerEdge R610 and R710 rack servers, T610 and T710 tower servers and M610 and M710 blade servers.

H-1B visa use by U.S. firms holds steady in '09
U.S. companies were still getting H-1B visa petitions even as they cut their workforces, according to data from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) showing who received visas in the 2009 fiscal year.

IT Can Boost Employee Productivity
President Obama recently spoke in Allentown, Penn., about the economy, and more specifically the job market. He discussed reasons hat employers are hesitant to hire more workers. In an excerpt from the speech, he raised the issue of worker productivity as one of the culprits.

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December 14, 2009

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  6. 8 more PowerPoint train wrecks
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