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The economic slowdown and tight budgets have caused many businesses to postpone technology investments. As a result, many growing businesses are facing aging IT infrastructures and exploding data growth. What does this mean for small and medium businesses? Is their critical but outdated IT infrastructure hampering business innovation?

Join us September 16 to hear from leading technology research firm Gartner and Dell (DELL 12.54, +0.22, +1.79%)  on current technology trends and how they can help address small and medium organizations' top business challenges, as well as news on Dell's latest server, storage and networking technologies designed exclusively for growing businesses.

Apple New Ipod Touch is introduced by Apple in this September month.Apple Ipod Touch has new features of 3-axis gyro, stunning retina display, Apple’s A4chip, FaceTime video calling, HD video recording, iOS 4.1 and Game Center. Ipod Touch has 40 hours battery backup for Audio music  playback and 7 hours of video playback .Apple also released a new Ipod shuffle .The Apple Ipod shuffle has both Voice over technology and clickable buttons.This Ipod shuffle comes in five different colours(silver,blue orange,pink,green) with Aluminium body enclosure.Apple also released Ipod Nano  multi-touch with small size than the previous generation  and with touch screen display to operate easily.

MSI has launched four new F-series laptops - FX400, FX600, FX700, and FR600, equipped with new Intel Core i5 microprocessors. These MSI F-series laptops are the first in the country to bring Intel Wireless Display technology that was demonstrated  at the CES 2010 in January this year. Presented in Color Film Print body, the new F-series laptops will fall in the price range of Rs. 37,000 and Rs. 53,000 depending upon the configuration.

New MSI F-series models - FX400, FX600, FX700, and FR600 are designed to appear stylish. These new F-series laptops come loaded with Intel Core i5 processors that bring Intel Turbo Boost and Intel Hyper-Threading technologies. These technologies adjust the proficiency of the processor on the go. MSI boasts that new GPU Boost Technology will make the best GPU power by automatically switching graphics modes.MSI proudly trumpets about bringing Intel WiDi (Wireless Display) technology capable laptops to India. This means all you need is a special adaptor to stream your HD audio-video content to a HDTV wirelessly. Of course the respective F-series laptop must have minimum 4GB RAM and Windows 7 (64-bit).

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Given the breakneck speeds at which technology moves, the information technology sector must keep an eye toward the horizon in order to be able to take advantage of new state-of-the-art tools that come along. Of course, this does not mean that an enterprise must run out and implement the latest platform or operating system just for the sake of having the latest technology. It's more than just saying, "We need the latest version of Windows Server." I.T. must weigh the risks and benefits of new technologies and how it fits into their existing systems. They must learn what to expect from new technology and how it will fit into the current business strategy. This goes into understanding technology trends so an enterprise does not invest heavily into a system that will quickly become obsolete or incompatible with a firm's existing systems. This situation is similar to the experience of many consumers who purchased the beta format for VCRs, only to find out that the VHS format had become the standard a short time after. These consumers were left with obsolete and useless equipment which were incompatible with the current standard of the time. Learning the technology trends is essential for businesses when considering a new technology.

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Another fun demonstration consists of six vertical tubes back lit to look like lava lamps. Valves at the bottom of the tubes release bubbles and can be programmed to send up bubbles across the tubes that take the shapes of letters. One of the device's creators, Andrew Malota from the University of Texas A&M, envisions it could be used in a bar to advertise drink specials and generally contribute to the ambiance.

Sphere is a multi-touchscreen,similar to Microsoft's Surface computer, but it is round. Microsoft envisions that it could be used in a collaborative public environment, like a hotel lobby. "There is no master-user position," said Hrvoje Banko, a Microsoft researcher who showed off the Sphere at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, Washington, on Tuesday.

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We keep hearing rumor after rumor that Apple will be expanding its offering of iPhone service providers to include Verizon. But both companies stubbornly refuse to comment. Indeed, there have also been recent developments that cast doubt on a potential Apple-Verizon alliance. A few examples include Apple using AT&T for iPad data and Verizon's anti-iPhone commercials. A survey by an analyst at Morgan Stanley, however, indicates that Apple would be smart to bring Verizon on board.

Bizjournals.com reports that the analyst, Katy Huberty, found nearly 17% of Verizon customers would switch to an iPhone if given the opportunity. And the number might have been even higher than that if Apple hadn't allowed some Verizon customers to become content with Android-based devices. This is a huge segment consumers who lie out of Apple's reach entirely due to its exclusivity contract with AT&T.

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Video chat on the iPhone? The on-again, off-again rumor that Apple's latest incarnation of iPhones is going to support two-way video conferencing has been the talk of the Web town as of late.

PCMag's own Sascha Segan doesn't foresee this happening: "Apple is very picky about its multimedia experiences, and video chat with mobile devices over cellular networks doesn't work well," he writes. "At CTIA, the CEO of Skype said the problems are network-centric as much as device-centric. Apple would rather leave a feature out than deliver a subpar experience.

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Microsoft Corp.MSFT-Q unveiled two phones Monday that are meant for social networking-savvy teens and twenty-somethings.

In an attempt to revitalize its mobile business and regain ground on iPhones and BlackBerrys.

Microsoft said its new touch-screen phones — a short, square-shaped handset called Kin 1 and a longer, more rectangular one called Kin 2 — will be sold exclusively in the U.S. by Verizon Wireless. They are being made by Sharp Corp., which has produced Sidekick cellphones, whose software comes from Microsoft-owned Danger Inc.

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In what has to be one of the most significant announcements that Microsoft has made in recent times, it has made the next generation Mobile OS public with the unravelling of Windows Phone Series 7.

A few hours ago, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft, for the first time, displayed what might well be the iPhone Killer you were eagerly waiting for.

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Just a few years ago, Microsoft (MSFT) looked like a real contender in the mobile-phone market. Its Windows Mobile operating system ran about a quarter of all smartphones as recently as 2004, and it was gaining ground on leaders like Nokia (NOK).

Then Apple (AAPL) and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIMM) left the software giant in the dust. On Feb. 15, at a wireless industry conference in Barcelona, Microsoft will unveil its latest effort to get back into the game. The renamed Windows Phone operating system will "move the bar forward, not in an evolutionary way," promises Robert J. Bach, president of the company's entertainment and devices division.

Microsoft needs to be a player in the smartphone market. The computing people used to do on personal computers, where Microsoft has a lock, is migrating to mobile devices. Apple's iPhone, RIM's Blackberry, and other phones are becoming the preferred way to read e-mail, check out Facebook, or catch up on the news.

Researcher IDC predicts the total shipments of smartphones will more than double between 2009 and 2013, to 391.3 million units. Microsoft's new mobile software "has to be different and convince their customers and partners that they are going to fundamentally change direction," says IDC analyst William Stofega.
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