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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...What inspires current deals is an almost desperate need for growth. Many computer giants are struggling with declining sales and profit margins as consumers and businesses hang on to their PC systems and laptops longer, and view software upgrades as a luxury. Also, companies are being forced to slash prices on computers and related equipment to compete with cheaper products being produced in low-cost economies like China. (See pictures of the best-selling cars in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech Mergers and Acquisitions Coming Back | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

Want to get caught up fast? Once you've learned how to work that PC, go ahead and Google (you'll figure it out) a video called "100 Greatest Hits of YouYube in 4 Minutes." With one minute for every year YouTube has been in existence, this video has it all: Obama Girl, the Dr. Pepper guys, Matt's funny dance and an absurdly low-flying 747. Plus lots and lots and lots of people falling down and hurting themselves. Consider this clip a welcome-back present - and your pop culture lifeline. (See the top 10 everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best and Worst of YouTube in Four Minutes | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

...many legal experts see suits against the SEC as a steep uphill battle because government entities enjoy sovereign immunity. "To sue the government is a very tough proposition," says Dan Reinberg, a partner at Polsinelli Shughart PC. He adds that government entities have sovereign immunity for good reason. "The regulators are there to do a job that the public has asked them to do, and if they can be sued for negligence or mismanagement in their official function, then who's going to want to be a regulator?" he asks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Its Madoff Report, Can Victims Sue the SEC? | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

...have a touchscreen or a swish keyboard, but with access to Ovi Mail, Nokia's free e-mail service, it's designed to give thousands of consumers in emerging markets their "first Internet experience," says Credit Suisse's Garcha. Ovi Mail was conceived specifically for consumers with limited PC access, and almost all the 350,000 accounts registered since the service's launch last December have been created on Nokia phones, not on computers. To the company, that bodes well for the future. "We believe giving [consumers] this first digital identity will be a way of getting [them] later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nokia Calling | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...back to various publications and websites in the U.S. using a rotating set of email accounts registered under outrageous pseudonyms. On Facebook I took on an alias worthy of an old-school rapper. Certain that every word was being monitored, I embarked on a crash course in Internet and PC security, schooling myself on the possibilities of deep-package inspection, VPNs and onion-routing. It was not long before I began to wonder at the online company that I was keeping. What was this world that I had entered? Who exactly, other than pedophiles, committed civil libertarians and the occasional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Reporter's Diary: Making a Tricky Exit From Iran | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

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