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polene bag Phone keeps coming: Samsung today announced a slick Windows 8 phone whose specs make it seem as if it can provide serious competition to iPhones and Android phones. With HTC and Nokia slated to announce Windows Phone 8 devices, and carriers lining up behind the operating system, the news is all good for Microsoft.The new phone, called the ATIV S, sports some serious specs. Itrsquo got a big 4.8-inch 1280-by-720 Super AMOLED display, a 1.5Ghz dual-core processor, and has NFC integrated. Therersquo a 8-megapixel camera on the back and a 1.9-megapixel unit on the front. Despite its serious specs, itrsquo svelte at 8.7 millimeters thick.This means that people who want the latest in high-end phones will have a Windows Phone 8 choice later this fall. Theyrsquo;ll have lots of other choices as well, because
stanley us Verizon will be selling a new Windows Phone device, as will ATT
owala tumbler and T-Mobile. Adding to the push is the fact that Verizon and other carriers will likely try and get consumers to buy Window Phone 8 devices as a way to fight back against Apple. Carriers are not pleased with the high subsidies they pay for people to buy iPhones and the high royalties they have to pay to Apple for each iPhone user mdash; up to $600 for per user.This fall will be the first time that Windows Phone has somewhat of a level playing field with iPhone and Android devices. Carriers have generally been cool to Windows Phone and have done a very poor job of highlightin Ttfg Box launches new service for security-conscious enterprises
While itrsquo true that many of the financial reports that companies have to file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission can be too complicated or too dull or both , these documents do contain nuggets of information on whatrsquo worrying the companies most.One just has to dig a bit.MORE ON CIO How to Win CFO Friends and Influence Business People: Quantify IT Investment Risk Untangling Enterprise Systems for a Sudden Acquisition or Divestiture: Are You Prepared The Real Pirates to Worry About: Chinese Manufacturing Partners After You
polene bag r IP Booty That digging informs financial consultancy BDO Seidmanrsquo annual RiskFactor Report for Technology Businesses. BDO Seidman trolled through fiscal year 2008 10-K SEC filings of the 100 largest publicly traded U.S. tech companies. Usually, 10-K reports contain troves of corporate details not found in annual reports. The risk factors found were analyzed and then ranked in order by the frequency with which they were cited by the high-tech companies.So whatrsquo eating at high-tech vendors duri
polene cyme ng these troubled economic times Strong competition and consolidation risk factors top the list 97 percent cite this; 92 percent did in 2008 when it also ranked highest . Failure to develop new products or services ranks close behind at 91 percent; this ranked fifth last year with 84 percent. Next on the lis
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