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Medical Advances—Through Your iPhone? (30 April 09:31) |
| Researchers are beginning to understand how mobile phones can cut costs, help solve rural health-care problems, and even reduce medical errors
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Cox's Creative Ad Buy (30 April 09:31) |
| With its purchase of Adify, the media conglomerate hopes to fend off giants of online advertising Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and AOL
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How Google Fuels Its Idea Factory (30 April 06:46) |
| CEO Eric Schmidt describes the simple principles driving the company's steady stream of innovations
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Matsushita: Defying the Skeptics (29 April 05:17) |
| The company is relying on developing markets, and especially BRIC, to meet its ambitious targets for sales of plasma and LCD TVs
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Bureaucracy Hampers an E. coli Weapon (28 April 11:47) |
| French biotech GeneSystems developed a system to detect the deadly bacterium before it reaches supermarket shelves, but it faces red tape and resistance
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Satellite Is Sexy Again (28 April 09:31) |
| Many of the satellite communications outfits that ended up in bankruptcy have reemerged and are drawing the interest of private equity
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Earnings Show Microsoft Needs Yahoo (25 April 09:31) |
| Lackluster quarterly results reinforce the software maker's need for growth through acquisitions and suggest it ought to raise a rebuffed takeover bid
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Motorola's Market Share Shrinks (25 April 03:45) |
| With mobile-phone losses at $418 million, sales down 39%, and competition expected to peak, the handset maker needs new products to recover
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YouTube's Buried Treasure (25 April 02:30) |
| Making the most of its riches will take a lot longer than Google expected
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Apple Continues to Ripen (24 April 09:31) |
| In its fiscal second quarter, the iPhone maker escaped the slowdown that's hurting other consumer-oriented companies. But can it remain unscathed?
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A Broadcasting Turnoff (24 April 08:36) |
| S&P is down on broadcasting and cable TV stocks, which have been falling in price for a year
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IBM vs. Tata: Who's More American? (24 April 05:46) |
| The Indian giant's TCS makes most of its money in the U.S., while Big Blue does the bulk of its business abroad
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The Best Mini Yet—Almost (24 April 02:08) |
| HP's entry has a wide screen, a big keyboard, and a great price. The weak link? Its software
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Chinese MRIs, Coming to Your Hospital (23 April 05:20) |
| The heparin scare notwithstanding, multinationals are strengthening their ties with the Chinese medical industry
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Are Yahoo's Earnings Good Enough? (23 April 09:31) |
| Its first-quarter profit and revenue numbers beat Wall Street's estimates, but they may not be sufficient to prompt Microsoft to boost its offer
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Work Visas: Lose the Lottery (22 April 09:31) |
| The H-1B system needs an overhaul. For now, let's award visas to the highest-paid foreign workers and top graduates from top U.S. schools
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Virtualization Goes Mobile (22 April 09:31) |
| The technology could finally lead to one phone that does everything well. It's still early, but Motorola, Cisco, and Intel want in
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Russian Telcos Look to Asia for Growth (21 April 10:23) |
| After a decade of rapid advances in the former Soviet Union, Russia's mobile operators are placing big bets in India, Vietnam, and elsewhere
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FCC Wireless Auction Faulted (21 April 09:31) |
| Critics charge that the auction helped AT&T and Verizon Wireless solidify their industry dominance. Some call for tighter regulation
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Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech (19 April 08:49) |
| As the economy slumps, many entrepreneurs are looking past consumer Web sites to focus on products and services for companies
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Google Wants to Index Your DNA, Too (19 April 07:03) |
| The Web search giant's investment in Navigenics is further proof it wants an early stake in direct-to-consumer genetic screening
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Mint's Fresh Take on Personal Finance (18 April 03:14) |
| Gen Y is flocking to a free site for managing bank and credit accounts and household budgets. Mint.com aims for 1 million users by yearend
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HP Labs' Latest Experiment: Itself (18 April 02:30) |
| As the computer giant cuts its number of major research projects, its labs director explains the attempt to marry the grant-writing focus of a university with the entrepreneurial approach of... |
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IBM, eBay: The Boost from Overseas (17 April 09:34) |
| A weak U.S. dollar and fast growth abroad are helping tech companies handle the economic slump—and beat analyst expectations
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Vodafone's 'Long Term' Hesitance (16 April 09:31) |
| The wireless giant isn't fully committed to the 4G broadband technology known as Long Term Evolution. CEO Arun Sarin talks about that and more
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Defenseless on the Net (16 April 09:31) |
| With all the cyber spies and state-sponsored hackers on the Internet, is there any way to defend ourselves? Critics say not completely
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Google and Salesforce: A Tighter Bond (16 April 09:07) |
| Together, the leader in Web search and the pioneer in online software distribution are taking on Microsoft in desktop applications
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An Upbeat Street After Intel Report (16 April 04:02) |
| Intel's first-quarter earnings gives investors hope that the chipmaker—and the tech sector—are weathering the economic downturn
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Who's on Top in Tech-Readiness? (15 April 11:30) |
| While Nordic nations still win top marks in surveys, oil-producing countries are waking up to the need to adapt their economies to the digital age
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Recruiting for the Cyber Wars (15 April 09:31) |
| Uncle Sam wants you—to help defend against Internet threats. But is the military any place for slackers and hackers?
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Heart Disease: Not About Cholesterol? (15 April 09:31) |
| AstraZenaca's Crestor study finds that statins may help prevent heart attacks because they control inflammation, not because they lower cholesterol
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Twitter: Friends for Sale (15 April 07:24) |
| One popular subscriber has put his Twitter account up for sale on eBay, prompting a fiery debate over ethics and commerce online
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Bypassing Carriers for Mobile Content (15 April 07:21) |
| Sales of ringtones and games through phone makers and the Web are way up, another sign service providers are losing their grip on the industry
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Memory Chips: A High Bar for Qimonda (14 April 10:56) |
| Under Malaysian-born CEO Loh, the German chip giant is struggling to make its products stand out in a brutally competitive business
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Chips: A High Bar for Qimonda (14 April 11:27) |
| Under Malaysian-born CEO Loh, the German chip giant is struggling to make its products stand out in a brutally competitive business
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U.S. Woes Slow Growth for India IT (11 April 04:37) |
| Top Indian software makers, including Wipro and Infosys, are set to report more modest gains than in recent boom years thanks to a sluggish U.S. economy
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Microsoft-Yahoo: Motivated Buyer Yet? (11 April 09:31) |
| With Google and AOL in the picture, Microsoft faces pressure to raise its offer before Yahoo! can seal a deal that spoils Redmond's takeover bid
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One Place for Your Many Online Lives (11 April 06:23) |
| FriendFeed is tearing down the walls between Web haunts such as Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, etc.
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France Telecom Goes to the Movies (10 April 10:56) |
| With its three-screen service, Orange—the telco's mobile, Internet, and TV arm—makes sure you're wired for entertainment wherever you are
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China's 3G Failure (09 April 05:22) |
| After a troubled development process, China's flawed homegrown 3G mobile standard gets an unofficial commercial launch
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An Android in Your Pocket? (09 April 01:15) |
| AT&T is continuing to warm up to Google's Android open wireless phone software
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Google Battles Amazon for Clouds (09 April 01:04) |
| The new Google App Engine seems similar to services offered by Amazon.com. But there are significant differences, writes BW's Rob Hof
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Motorola Caves to Icahn (08 April 09:31) |
| The troubled cell-phone maker agrees to back two board nominations from activist investor Carl Icahn
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Outsourcing at Home (07 April 09:59) |
| With Indian wages rising and the rupee strengthening against the dollar, some IT services companies are opening facilities in the U.S.
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The New Economics of Outsourcing (07 April 09:31) |
| Efforts to send IT work anywhere but Bangalore are taking on added urgency as costs of doing work in India rise and the dollar sinks
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Yahoo Gets a Deadline (06 April 05:23) |
| Its directors have three weeks to come to the bargaining table or Microsoft will launch a fight to replace them
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The Record Labels' Digital Future (04 April 10:51) |
| Even as they cut a deal with MySpace for online music, the record labels are looking at other ways to make money online
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About That iPhone Shortage (04 April 09:31) |
| The most likely explanation: Apple is gearing up for the next version of the popular handset or it underestimated demand—or both
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Creative Capital (04 April 02:30) |
| When Georges Doriot shepherded Digital Equipment's IPO in 1966, he changed the rules of entrepreneurship and laid the groundwork for tech giants like Apple and Google
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When a Buyout Goes Bad (04 April 02:30) |
| First came Freescale's ugly private equity deal. Now the chipmaker has lost its CEO—and its bearings
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