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Hyperconnected invading the workplace

As cellphones, Internet and private networks continue to mesh, corporations will be forced to rethink their IT policies or be left behind, study finds


HP to buy EDS for $12.6-billion

Purchase price of $25-per share offers a 4 per cent premium to closing price Monday; move will more than double HP's services revenue


EarthLink to pull Philly's Wi-Fi plug

Company had once pinned its future on municipal networks following rapid declines in dial-up business


Privacy Commissioner comes to Moscoe's aid

Contacts Facebook to get fake page taken down


Disney to create ad lab

Media giant, which owns ABC and ESPN, seeking to learn whether consumers are more engaged by new and interactive ads


NY seeks Internet violence law

State proposal would make a felony of committing violent acts for display on Internet video sites


Google to help make websites more sociable

Service provides a framework that will enable people to interact with their friends and use favourite applications

geekwatch

Mathew Ingram

Smashwords wants to set books free

Founder Mark Coker says that he wants to help authors distribute their books electronically and charge whatever they want


cyberia

kapica

The future of twenty-first century media

The sale of New York Newsday and the birth of a print magazine show that not everybody thinks the future is exclusively online


controllerfreak

Chad Sapieha

WiiWare ups ante in downloadable content game

The Wii's selection of downloadable games expands beyond old classics to include original titles developed exclusively for Nintendo's console


Personal Tech

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WorldWide Telescope blasts off

Microsoft launches free program for zooming around the universe for a broad audience


Mobiles

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Signals you send

You may not spend much time thinking about what your phone says about you, but other people are picking up all the clues

 

MORE TECHNOLOGY NEWS 

Apple to launch iPhone in four Asian regions

Singapore, India, the Philippines and Australia sales should help Apple reach its goal to sell 10 million iPhones by year's end

Apple to settle Canadian iPod lawsuits

Pair of class-action lawsuits alleged company misled customers about the staying power of their iPods

Newspapers will be sold,
but at lower prices

Valuations represent the uncertainties associated with the business model of newspapers

MIT students flex open cellphone systems

Brainstorming suggests a threat to the mobile phone industry's control a and challenge the Internet as a source of innovation

Start-up unveils new Wikipedia search tool

Natural-language search could become the basis of a Google-killer if Microsoft were to buy maker Powerset

Big music looks to mobile sector

What the music industry wants most is to turn every mobile phone into a music-playing device

New magazine prefers print

Dispatches bets readers want news analysis on paper and won't mind getting it just four times a year

New Microsoft service marries video with Messenger

Network of friends can watch clips, chat at same time with Messenger TV

Facebook takes $100-million in debt; CTO departs

Equipment lease financing frees Facebook of the need to raise further venture funding that would dilute existing shareholders

Jeff Raikes to run Gates Foundation

Microsoft executive was responsible for Office software suite, server software and business applications


PERSONAL TECH 

How to put your best pic forward

A growing number of users are turning to professional retouching services to polish their online images

Video games don't create killers, book says

Authors argue no data support the 'simple-minded' concerns that video games cause violence

Paper is passé for tech-savvy Koreans

Mobile phone services let retailers send discount coupons and users send gift certificates for anything from lattes to movie tickets through handsets

HBO may sell shows on Apple's iTunes

Pricing to be 'flexible,' marking the first time Apple has agreed to selling content at different prices in the United States


TQ@WORK 

ROB Tech Page: From Madden to Manhunt?

Electronics Arts vows to keep their hands (and handcuffs) off maverick game studio if their hostile bid for Take-Two goes through

ROB TECH PAGE: Chuck the cheat sheet, this remote does its work

ROB Tech Page: Does Apple hate Canada?

Higher prices, later launches and still no iPhone – you might think Apple hates Canada. It's not quite that simple

ROB Tech Page: Canadian firms putting a lock on data privacy

High-level executives charged with keeping consumer data safe from scammers and snoopers are increasingly common at major companies

ROB Tech Page: Anti-laundering software casts wide net to catch big fish

Powerful computers and constantly tweaked software plow through mountains of customer data looking for suspicious activities – such as a state governor transferring large amounts of cash


SCIENCE 

Cambridge scientist takes Canada to cutting edge of physics theory

RIM co-founder stages a coup in persuading award-winning researcher to head institute

U.S. mission to Mars has Canadian link

Phoenix is to touch down later this month, carrying with it Canada-built weather station

Jumbo squid swims north, imperilling B.C. hake

Persistent sightings have some calling for an expedition to determine how many of the predatory creatures exist in Canadian waters

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