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Apple's Scott Forstall demos a new beta version of iOS. The revamped mobile operating system includes an upgrade to Siri, Facebook integration, and FaceTime connectivity through a cellular network. There's also a new feature called Passbook, whBy ZDNET.com
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Apple's Scott Forstall previews the company's new in-house 3D mapping technology at WWDC 2012 in San Francisco. The feature will offer GPS navigation, turn-by-turn directions, and a traffic service that shows you the location of accidents, courBy ZDNET.com
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Apple unveils next-gen MacBook Pro with Retina Display
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Apple's Phil Schiller shows off the company's new ultra thin and light MacBook Pro at WWDC 2012 in San Francisco. The new laptop is 0.71 inches thick, with a 220-pixels-per-inch display and screen resolution of 2,880 by 1,800. It starts shippinBy ZDNET.com
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Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn and Twitter, they're the hottest social media companies on the Web - and the data shared and searched on these social networks is valuable to organizations. But how valuable? And is one piece of social data worth more tBy ZDNET.com
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SAP announces startup fund, HANA upgrade program
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At a press conference in San Francisco, Dr. Vishal Sikka, head of SAP's technology and innovation areas, discusses how the software maker plans to encourage innovation and help customers adopt new technology.By ZDNET.com
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Broadcom CEO touts tech to target precise location indoors
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At Ignition West in San Francisco, Broadcom CEO Scott McGregor talks about a new chip that will help users track a smartphone user's location anywhere indoors to within 20-30 feet of where they're standing.By ZDNET.com
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Ignition West: How to make money in mobile apps
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At Ignition West in San Francisco, Todd Chaffee, managing director of Institutional Venture Partners, talks about the best strategy for monetizing content on mobile devices.By ZDNET.com
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Salesforce's Rypple puts a social spin on performance reviews
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At a Cloudforce in San Francisco, Salesforce.com COO George Hu demos the company's new social based HR performance management tool. Rypple uses social tools to set goals and objectives and recognize workers with badges and gaming concepts. It will cBy ZDNET.com
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To help Apple show off its new iPad's high-resolution gaming capabilities, developers from Namco and Epic Games demo their latest games. Software maker Autodesk also reveals a new drawing app for the device called SketchBook Ink.By ZDNET.com
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Apple's Tim Cook and Philip Schiller unveil the company's newest iPad. The device powered by A5X chip, offers a higher-resolution Retina Display, longer battery life, plus 4G LTE. The pricing starts at $499 for a 16GB Wi-Fi model and 4G startinBy ZDNET.com
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Apple's Tim Cook and Eddy Cue show off the company's new Apple TV streaming video box. The new hardware has several updated features, including 1,080-pixel resolution for movies and TV shows and a redesigned user interface. The box will be avaiBy ZDNET.com
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In battling cyberattacks, public-private partnerships the best weapons?
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At the RSA conference in San Francisco, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter talks about the need for the public and private sector to work together in defending the civilian infrastructure from cyberthreats.By ZDNET.com
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Symantec CEO: Companies must avoid 'lockdown'
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At the RSA conference in San Francisco, Symantec CEO Enrique Salem says companies' need to move away from "lockdown" strategies restricting personal devices at work, and focus instead on securing the enterprise for a host of consumer devicBy ZDNET.com
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RSA chief: Today's security models inadequate
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At the RSA conference in San Francisco, RSA Executive Chairman Art Coviello discusses the increasing threat companies face from cyberattacks and strategies and practices IT managers can deploy for response.By ZDNET.com
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At an Apple press event in New York City, executives from the company announce a new initiative to reinvent textbooks. The new software will attempt to unify online databases and the printed word into a single tool for students.By ZDNET.com
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At CES, Ballmer highlights Windows phone, Windows 8, Xbox Kinect
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At CES in Las Vegas, American Idol host Ryan Seacrest talks to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer about what to expect from the software giant in 2012. Ballmer previews the new Windows phone OS, Windows 8's metro UI and new Xbox Kinect features.By ZDNET.com
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At CES in Las Vegas, Sony executives show off the latest in the company's line of consumer electronics, from the company's new Xperia smartphone, to its new PlayStation Vita portable gaming system, to its Internet-enabled TVs.By ZDNET.com
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CES 2012: Intel looks to 'wow' with concept Windows 8 ultrabooks
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At CES in Las Vegas, Intel's Mooly Eden updates the company's "ultrabook" efforts, including a concept transparent touch screen on the back side, coupled with the Windows 8 Metro user interface.By ZDNET.com
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Kara Swisher demos the hottest (and quirkiest!) tech toys
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At a Churchill Club event, AllThingsD technology columnist Kara Swisher shows ZDNet some “must have” gift ideas for the holidays, including “lighted finger rats,” a tactile iPad screen, and a classic retro-phone handset designed for your smart phone.By ZDNET.com
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Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal, reveals his favorite consumer gadgets of the year at the Churchill Club’s annual gadgets program. On his list: tangle-resistant ear buds and an iPhone case complete with a beer-bottle opener. Mossberg also demosBy ZDNET.com
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Father of Google Apps: How Google entered the cloud
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At the GigaOm Net:Work conference in San Francisco, Google's Rajen Sheth talks about how the product development of Gmail inspired Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt to embrace cloud computing. The three at first "soundly rejected the idBy ZDNET.com
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At a Google press event in Los Angeles, the company officially launches its music service and store. Now open to all, the service enables users to upload their music libraries to Google's servers, making those tunes available to stream on Android-baBy ZDNET.com
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PARC scientist recalls Jobs' famous Xerox visits
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At a Churchill Club event in San Jose, Calif., former PARC engineer Larry Tesler talks about Steve Jobs' trips to Xerox's PARC, including the one where Jobs eyed the company's graphical user interface prototype, which ended up making it inBy ZDNET.com
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At a Churchill Club event in San Jose, Calif., Jean-Louis Gassée discusses why Apple chose Steve Jobs NeXTSTEP OS over Gassée's Be OS. In hindsight, Gassée says, "Thank god that didn't happen, because I hated Apple's management."By ZDNET.com
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United States CIO: Innovation is an endless resource
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Speaking Tuesday at a Churchill Club event in Palo Alto, Calif., the country's Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel discusses innovation in the federal IT landscape. He says cybersecurity concerns should not be used as an excuse not to innovatBy ZDNET.com
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At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks about why users should buy a Windows phone rather than an Android device: "You don’t need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows phone and you do to use and Android phonBy ZDNET.com
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Michael Dell on HP, Apple in 1997, and Steve Jobs
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At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Computer, talks about the state of the PC industry, competition with HP, Apple's near bankruptcy in 1997, and the first time he met Steve Jobs.By ZDNET.com
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At Oracle's OpenWorld in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison announces a new social-networking tool for enterprise customers. The new software will allow businesses to collaborate and exchange information over a private social network.By ZDNET.com
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At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison discusses the company's new cloud offering. Ellison says: “The key difference is that our cloud is based on industry standards and supports full operability with other clouds and data ceBy ZDNET.com
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Join us on a journey through the ups and downs of a career that has changed both the tech industry and our culture at large.By ZDNET.com
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Apple's Scott Forstall shows off Siri, the company's new voice recognition-enabled personal assistant for the iPhone 4S. The new software will allow you to ask for help and will respond back to you in human-like language.By ZDNET.com
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Apple's SVP of marketing Philip Schiller announces the latest version of the company's popular iPhone, the iPhone 4S. The new smartphone touts a faster A5 chip, dual-core graphics, a longer battery life, a better camera, and dual-mode CDMA andBy ZDNET.com
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At Apple's headquarters, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, Philip Schiller, unveils new iPod Nano features, including a new multitouch icon screen, new sensors for runners, and the ability to wear the device as a watch. The Nano comesBy ZDNET.com
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Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen says he believes we’re at a crossroads in IT, and that much of it is thanks to what is happening in the consumer world of tech. He spoke at the BoxWorks 2011 conference in San Francisco.By ZDNET.com
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At the Mobilize conference in San Francisco, Pandora CTO Tom Conrad discusses his views on the competitive landscape in music and the differences between Pandora and Spotify.By ZDNET.com
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At the F8 developer conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduces a revamped profile page called Timeline, which gives users more control and a chance to look back on everything they've ever published on the social network.By ZDNET.com
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At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Andrzej Nowak, staff researcher at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, explains how the organization is working to understand the universe and is processing the data it collects.By ZDNET.com
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At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Brett Carpenter, from Microsoft’s Windows ecosystem group, shows off Windows 8. Its Metro-style UI has live tiles that can be programmed using existing tools and languages. It also supports full-screen apps.By ZDNET.com
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At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Mooly Eden, who heads up Intel's PC Client Group, shows off power-saving, self-refreshing display panels that he says will be the new standard in less than two years.By ZDNET.com
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At the Microsoft Build conference in Anaheim, Calif., Steven Sinofsky, the president of the Windows Division, takes the wraps off of Windows 8, unveiling the company's new operating system in front of an audience of software developers.By ZDNET.com
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Intel, Google partner on optimized Android phones
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At the Intel Developer Forum, Google announced it is teaming up with the chipmaker to optimize Android for Intel-powered mobile devices. Google Senior Vice President Andy Rubin made an appearance during the keynote address with Intel CEO Paul Otellini toBy ZDNET.com
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Google's Eric Schmidt on Steve Jobs, Microsoft, patents, and more
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At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff interviews Google Chairman Eric Schmidt about the state of the technology industry. Highlights include remarks about Apple's Steve Jobs, Motorola, the current patent system,By ZDNET.com
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At the company's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Salesforce.com executives demo how Disney and Toyota are using the company's social-networking tools to create better user engagement with customers.By ZDNET.com
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Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff touts 'social enterprise'
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At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff says that enterprise technology is going to face an uprising akin to the Arab Spring in the Middle East.The theme is that customers are going to revolt against traditional enBy ZDNET.com
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Watch key moments from Steve Jobs' speeches since he returned to Apple in 1997.By ZDNET.com
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Steve Jobs stepping down as CEO of Apple marks the end of an era. Come with us on a journey through the ups and downs of his career. From the development of the first Mac in 1984 to the unveiling of the iPhone and iPad, Jobs has changed the face of an inBy ZDNET.com
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Churchill Club: Bringing more women into the boardroom
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At the Churchill Club in Mountain View, Calif., technology executives from Microsoft, Facebook, SAP, and Juniper Networks discuss the barriers women face landing a job in the technology industry and offer recommendations for increasing the number of womeBy ZDNET.com
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See the largest and tallest green roof in New York City -- installed for the same price as a regular roof. Learn how solar film and better equipment maintenance help reduce CBS Corporation's energy consumption in this EcoMedia video. Editor's NBy BNET.com
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Sumi's Smart Picks: Voltaic OffGrid Solar Backpack
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When your smartphone is dead and there's no electrical outlet in sight, you're usually out of luck. But if the sun was shining and you were sporting the OffGrid Solar Backpack, you'd have plenty of talk time. SmartPlanet correspondent SBy BNET.com
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces a new Skype-powered video-calling feature that will begin rolling out to Facebook users immediately. Video connections will be nearly instant, with no downloads or technical expertise required, Zuckerberg says.By ZDNET.com
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