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The Wireless Gigabit Alliance, or WiGig, has completed a new specification that makes possible high-performance wireless display and audio with rates 10 times faster than current-generation wireless LANs. The new spec works to extend Wi-Fi technology and supports backward capability with existing Wi-Fi devices. WiGig members will have access to the spec to provide faster wireless in new products in the first quarter of 2010.

On Tuesday, Dell rolled out a new laptop aimed at mobile entrepreneurs, the 13.3-inch Vostro V13. With a starting price of $449, Dell is sending a combined message of value and innovation with the latest addition to its small-business line of Vostro laptops.

The Vostro V13 is less than an inch thick and weighs 3.5 pounds. The laptop is equipped with ultra-low-voltage (ULV) Intel processors, encased in brushed aluminum with reinforced zinc hinges for durability, and has a suite of features to make mobile entrepreneurs more productive.

With Apple's App Store offering many free and 99-cent apps whose prices please buyers but frustrate many developers, Microsoft is wooing developers to its Windows Mobile platform by promoting the idea that 99 cents is too low.

Loke Uei, senior technical product manager for Windows Mobile, recently told developers that, while "99 cents is interesting," "your app is worth more than that." He made the comments at developer sessions currently being conducted in Redmond, Wash., in advance of Microsoft's launch of Windows Marketplace for Mobile.

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Please join us at an “unconference” on Friday, August 21st, in Atlanta - PR Camp Atlanta - organized by Dan Greenfield of Bernaise Source Media.
This event will be a fast-paced interactive learning experience free of panels and Powerpoint.   Learn and exchange ideas about social media relevance to senior executives, new approaches to measurement and effective sharing of knowledge.

Please join us at an 8 am - 12 noon “unconference” on Friday, August 21st, in Atlanta - PR Camp Atlanta - organized by Dan Greenfield of Bernaise Source Media.
This event will be a fast-paced interactive learning experience free of panels and Powerpoint.   Learn and exchange ideas about social media relevance to senior executives, new approaches to measurement and effective sharing of knowledge.

Please join us at an “unconference” on Friday, August 21st, in Atlanta - PR Camp Atlanta - organized by Dan Greenfield of Bernaise Source Media.
This event will be a fast-paced interactive learning experience free of panels and Powerpoint.   Learn and exchange ideas about social media relevance to senior executives, new approaches to measurement and effective sharing of knowledge.

The premium paid by IBM for software maker SPSS likely presages richer prices for tech-company deals as the pace of computer industry consolidation picks up.

Cloud computing is taking the IT industry by storm -- at least conceptually -- as companies from various sectors of the industry scramble to get on board the latest buzz bandwagon. The only problem is that the industry doesn't agree on what the cloud is.

Despite the overwhelming market dominance of Google and the media hype surrounding the launch of Microsoft's snazzy new service, Bing, not everyone is convinced that Internet search has reached the end of its evolutionary path.

That's the theory, at least, of new search engines like Collecta and CrowdEye, which argue that, like prehistoric dinosaurs, Google, Bing and Yahoo are simply too slow to keep up with today's rapid-fire Internet. Instead, they argue, searchers can get better and more timely information from real-time search results.

Reports are surfacing that customers who ordered the new iPhone 3GS online may have delayed gratification. Consumers checking their package tracking status were shocked to discover that the delivery date, originally scheduled for Wednesday, was quietly shifted to Friday or even Monday.

A few unlucky souls were left with no shipping date but an ambiguous message: "the receiver requested a hold for a future delivery date" or "the package is being held for a future delivery date."