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      <description>Today&amp;#146;s savvy new cloud companies will likely get gobbled up by the giants that will rule cloud computing in the years ahead.</description>
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      <title>Can Dell's Web Gadget Beat the iPhone?</title>
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      <description>Dell has a serious chance, but given the history of failed attempts on Apple&amp;#146;s crown, the odds favor Apple.</description>
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      <description>The Internet has replaced legions of service people we use to rely on. Which means quality customer care matters more than ever.</description>
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      <title>Too Old To Write Software? Or Just the 'Wrong Era'?</title>
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      <description>Rightly or wrongly, age is considered when hiring developers, yet a more important indicator is what micro-era in software history a programmer belongs to.</description>
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      <description>This Web technology plays a role in everything from Iran's recent election to a Microsoft lawsuit against alleged purveyors of advertising click fraud.</description>
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      <description>Busy Web users can use these free services to communicate more efficiently.</description>
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      <description>Could IBM be the biggest beneficiary of Oracle&amp;#146;s acquisition of Sun? Plus: a poor review for Microsoft&amp;#146;s Web-based reality TV show.</description>
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      <description>The need for IT security staff never seems to lessen, creating healthy salary levels for these sought after professionals.</description>
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      <title>Six Perfect Tech Products Everyone Should Use</title>
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      <description>So good they can actually enhance your career and your relationships -- and your life.</description>
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      <title>Why Apple Should Dump AT&amp;T</title>
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      <description>Thanks to AT&amp;T's slow execution on support for new iPhone features, its horrible customer service, and its high and confusing prices, yet another iPhone launch has been compromised.</description>
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      <description>With the iPhone available for $99 and the Snow Leopard upgrade selling for a mere $29, Apple is on a slippery slope toward commodity status.</description>
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      <title>Is a College Degree Needed to be a Great Software Developer?</title>
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      <description>The question is complicated by today's tough job market, in which non-degreed applicants don't even land an interview.</description>
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      <title>Help! My Macs are Cranky</title>
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      <description>He's fond of Apple but this Mac user apparently bought two problem machines. Is it time to go back to Windows?</description>
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      <title>Who Killed Twitter?</title>
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      <description>Statistics about Twitter usage show a far different picture than the media hype suggests. Why did Twitter jump the shark? 

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      <description>Software-as-a-Service shifts the responsibility of successfully deploying and maintaining software applications from the customer to the vendor.

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      <title>Google Wave: Faster Response Times</title>
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      <description>Google Wave represents a new way of thinking about how to work together.</description>
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      <title>Does the Mac-Windows-Linux Race Ever Change?</title>
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      <description>Looking back at a 1999 essay by sci-fi author Neal Stephenson suggests that humans change far slower than technology. 

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      <title>Stop the Drivel: The 'Really Perfect' Tech Exec</title>
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      <description>Forget the fawning coverage, the truly perfect IT exec masters office politics better than tech.</description>
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      <description>A veteran industry analyst points out some of the follies in today's tech world.</description>
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      <title>Macs are Better Looking than Windows PCs (Not)</title>
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      <description>After a period of catch-up, Windows PC's have all the aesthetic charm of an Apple machine.</description>
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