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Atheros turns cell phone into access point

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The browser blockers: Is browser sniffing outdated?
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Web standards on the edge
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When good browsers go bad -- and they all do
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IT's glass – full, empty or too big?
In times of economic chaos and budget cuts you need to check your perspective. You know the old saw: A pessimist sees the glass as half empty; the optimist sees it as half full. These are both wrong ways of looking at the problem. The realist's perspective, the right way, recognizes that when there's space above the contents the glass is simply too big.

Upgrade, repair, replace, or limp along?
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Mobile data roaming still costs too much
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Sprint's 4G guy: Todd Rowley on the need for speed
Todd Rowley helped to conceive Sprint's mobile WiMAX play, to midwife its birth, to name it Xohm, play matchmaker for its marriage with Clearwire, wave goodbye with the launch of the Clear network build out...and he still can't let go.

Ballmer, Tucci Discuss Microsoft, EMC Cloud Vision
Microsoft and EMC converged in New York City on Tuesday to announce a three-year extension of their alliance to work together on enterprise virtualization, storage, security and content management products.

A new era in application delivery
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Buyer's guide: Power-line networking for your Mac-friendly home
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