Nokia cuts research staff by up to 330 people
Mobile phone maker Nokia said it will cut up to 330 people from its research and development staff. Read more...

Dell's Q3 profit slides 54%

Windows 7 sparked surge in business demand for PCs

Dell's Q3 profit slides 54%

Intel shareholder wants execs to pay $2.7B in fines

Sony outlines aggressive growth goals

CIOs fear mass IT exodus following economic recovery

Salesforce.com announces 'Chatter' social-networking app

Convey and its VC backers bet on hybrid servers

Intel Capital invests $25 million in tech companies

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Chrome shines, Gore opines, staffs decline
Google's Chrome OS captured a lot of headlines and hype this week after the company invited the media in to have a look-see, setting off a whole lot of opinions about whether it will be any good. Microsoft, predictably, doesn't think so. Otherwise, Al Gore offered his opinion on the role supercomputers can play to quell climate change, and for the first time we can recollect there were not one, but two, cat-related IT stories that caught our attention.

Cost-Saving Secrets of the Outsourcing Insiders
Ten tips from outsourcing experts and practitioners on how to save money on external consultants with do-it-yourself outsourcing.

Netbooks in the enterprise: Get ready
Netbooks are coming into the enterprise, and companies need to figure out how to handle security and what to do about the consumer operating systems many of the devices come with.

25 best quotes from tech history
From Garry Trudeau to Al Gore, these notable quotes have become legendary sound bites.

How to re-energize your weary workforce
Battered by layoffs, hiring freezes and pay cuts, many IT staffers are in no mood to kick it up a notch. Here are nine almost-free ways to light a fire under your workers.

Knowledge Worker 2.0: The skills you need to adapt
What are the skills that IT professionals need to succeed right now and in the years to come?

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Book Review: Four Steps to Becoming a Top-Tier CIO
The authors of The Real Business of IT show how CIOs can demonstrate and communicate the value of IT in terms the CEO will understand.

AMD and Intel patch things up, HP buys 3Com
We had a blockbuster deal this week, with Hewlett-Packard saying it plans to buy 3Com, and a blockbuster settlement, with Advanced Micro Devices and Intel ending a long-running legal dispute. By midnight tonight, Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers are supposed to file a revised book-search settlement proposal, which could add to our top stories list for the week. For now, though, what follows are our top IT headlines of the moment.

Opinion: By settling with AMD, Intel is moving on to more important threats
Intel needs to prop up AMD, but it also has to focus on its real long-term threat, ARM.

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