Frank Shaw, the longtime president of the Microsoft account at public-relations firm Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, will be joining Microsoft’s executive ranks as the company’s new corporate vice president of corporate communications. He is replacing Simon Sproule, a former Nissan executive who has decided to return to the auto industry after five months with the Redmond [...]

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Biotechnology has the potential to orient health-care around individual patients. But it won’t while the industry follows Big Pharma’s lead, more 

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If innovation- and competition-spurring iPhones and BlackBerrys are seen as a problem, regulators in Washington are asking the wrong questions, more  and Verizon Profit Drops as Consumers Disconnect Lines  Second-quarter net income fell 2.8% from a year ago, driven down by a notable decline in wireline revenue. From IDG News Service, more 
and Apple Makes Nice with [...]

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Note to self: Don’t text while driving. Not only is it illegal to send a text message while behind the wheel in Washington state, but new research from the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute indicates that drivers who text are 23 times more likely to get in a car crash.
The New York Times quotes one of the [...]

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Microsoft has begun accepting submissions for its Windows Marketplace for Mobile, the next big step in the company’s attempt to challenge Apple’s App Store for the iPhone. Todd Brix, a Microsoft senior product marketing manager, announced the news and contrasted Microsoft with Apple by promising to provide clear guidelines and feedback to the developers that [...]

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Meet the digital nomads. They work ‘” clad in shorts, T-shirts and sandals ‘” wherever they find a wireless Web connection to reach their colleagues via instant messaging, Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally by voice on their iPhones or Skype. They represent an evolution in teleworking., more 

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In an effort to stem its global slide, Honda introduces veteran engineer and R&D head Takanobu Ito to lead the automobile company, more 

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