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Two Approaches to NFC Battle for French Hearts and Mobiles

Two competing approaches to equipping mobile phones with contactless communications capabilities vied for supporters at the Cartes exhibition in Paris this week. Either approach could turn phones into self-service electronic tour guides, travel tickets or secure payment terminals.
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FCC: Internet Program for Deaf Cheated Out of Millions

In court the Federal Communications Commission has charged 26 people with defrauding the agency of “tens of millions of dollars” from its program that lets people with hearing disabilities to communicate with hearing individuals through the use of interpreters and Web cameras.

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Five Reasons the Google Chrome OS Will Flop

Yesterday Google hosted a press event at its Mountain View campus to reveal a first glimpse at the Chrome OS. The excitement around the operating system has led to rampant rumors and speculation, but I question whether the Chrome OS is really worth any of this hype.

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Techies Gather for a Lunch to Save the World

The 43rd floor of the Spear Tower in downtown San Francisco is empty. Possibly because of the slumping economy, there's just a big, open office space with unfinished white walls overlooking a million-dollar view. It was an appropriate setting for Lunch for Good, an event on Wednesday that brought together nearly 100 people deep in the Bay Area's social-networking industry to talk about a futuristic question: how online social networks can help humans find common ground.

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Why Chrome OS Will Fail -- Big Time

A lack of flexibility will doom Google's latest ego trip to the dustbin of history

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Microsoft Windows Chief Decries Standards Grandstanding

Microsoft is in the early stages of IE9 development but they are already focusing on standards and the performance gains they can realize by taking advantage of modern PC hardware.

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BMC Takes Service Desk to the Cloud Via Salesforce.Com

BMC and Salesforce.com partner to deliver BMC's Service Desk Express on Force.com platform.

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FAA Glitch Shines Spotlight on Troubled Telco Project

The outage of a computer system used by airline pilots to file flights plans in the U.S will likely prompt a closer look at a $2.4 billion telecommunications system that has run into numerous problems in the past.

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Benioff Trumpets Force.Com Platform's Success

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff on Thursday attempted to cement an image of the vendor as a full-blown application development platform provider, not merely a purveyor of SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications.

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Global Video News Recap, World Tech Update Nov. 19

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