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		<title><![CDATA[CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Part Tree, er...Three]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/crm/?p=109]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[To Recap  We're heading into the homestretch.Â  Which is why the Giants need to beat the Panthers....last night.Â  Oh, snap. This isn't my NFL blog. I don't have one. This is the final episode in that hilarious sitcom, Greenberg's Fools Gold.Â  For those of you who missed the previous...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:04:52 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[2008 Between the Lines]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the year in Between the Linesâ€"in about 5 minutes I hope. 2008 was a wild one and January feels like it was 20 years ago. Hereâ€™s a brief recapâ€¦.    January: The year kicks off with the usual Consumer electronics show, which is then upstaged by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:15:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CRM 2009 -  Companies to Watch For - Live and Let Die - Part 1]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/crm/?p=107]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[We're heading into the forecasting homestretch now. You've seen what I'm thinking 'sup for 2009 with this post, this post, and this post.Â  Now we move onto the final one or two or three (we'll see how long I can go writing each one before I get tired or sick...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:35:58 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Singularity Summit 2007: Open source Singularity]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6180]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA["If the singularity is in fact near, the fundamental tools of information, collaboration and access will be our best hope for making it happen in a way that spreads its benefits and minimizes its dangers -- in short, making it happen in a way that lets us be good ancestors.,"...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:50:03 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[My anti-Mac bias rears its ugly head]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12355-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=37230&messageID=684465&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[My anti-Mac bias rears its ugly headDinosaurs and evolution....In my opinion, Mac is a pretty good OS. But overpriced and closed source. Being closed source ranks it amongst the dinosaurs of the digital age: close to extinction....The future of software is definitely open source.Greetz, Pjotr.OT: Isn't Linux just great? Simple...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:41:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Are you sure there's not a place for a smart watch on your wrist?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/mobile-gadgeteer/?p=317]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to wear a watch all the time while I was in the military and then I went through a phase where I just used my phone to for my timekeeping needs. MSN Direct with SPOT Smart Personal Objects Technology was launched on watches and I had the opportunity...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:04:52 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[I've got two free Sun SPOT Java Development Kits (value $550) for the ZDNet readers who....]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=515]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Three Fridayâ€™s ago, I announced ZDNetâ€™s Deputy Tester of the Week program.  The following Monday, in search of our first deputy testers, I offered three free copies of PPTMinimizer 3.0 to the members of ZDNetâ€™s audience who needed a utility like that for compressing PowerPoint files into more manageable...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:49:08 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft: Steve Ballmer sells to retail in NYC]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/micro-markets/?p=869]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Ballmer is Microsoft&rsquo;s top salesperson. This morning, in New York City, he sold Microsoft Retail Solutions to the retail industry, big time.Ballmer, Microsoft Corp. CEO, addressed the National Retail Federation NRF Annual Convention, delivering the keynote of &ldquo;Retail&rsquo;s Big Show 2007&rdquo; to an audience offering &ldquo;the highest concentration of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:05:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gaze of future passed: product predictions for 2006 made in 1996]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=1336]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ In January 1996, technology-oriented think tank Battelle Memorial Institute published their predictions of the ten most innovative products of 2006."The next ten years will bring us some amazing products that will change our  lives forever," says Battelle Technology Intelligence Program Manager Stephen M.  Millett said back then....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:38:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Three proposals for ad-based Wi-Fi]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://government.zdnet.com/?p=2348]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Wireless Bologna  As citywide networks become popular, a model of ad-supported free Wi-Fi is on the rise. That's an issue Andrew Townsend at the Institute for the Future addresses in a recent blog post. The trend brings up three key issues, Townsend writes on the IFTF blog: guaranteeing citizens'...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2006 17:10:52 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mr. Gates' new workplace]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1410]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Bill Gates' latest publically available e-mail/position paper/market vision statement/Office product feature prequel/outline for a new book tackles the "new world of work":Advances in pattern recognition, smart content, visualization and simulation, as well as innovations in hardware, displays and wireless networks, all give us an opportunity to re-imagine how software can...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2005 14:25:21 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The grand convergence in 2010]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1403]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Gartner predicts that by 2010 three major trends -- ubiquitous access, ambient intelligence and semantic connectivity -- will converge to create disruptions and opportunities as significant as the Web. It's not far fetched, but it will happen in ongoing spurts rather than as a big bang culminating at the end...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2005 13:46:52 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[RFID Tags and Contactless Smart Card Technology: Comparing and Contrasting Applications and Capabilities]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=145078]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Many applications are now using radio frequency RF chip technology to automatically identify objects or people. These applications range from tracking animals and tagging goods for inventory control to enabling fast payment and securely identifying people. While these applications all use radio waves to communicate information, the RF chip technology...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft sets time for cyberwatches]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-9584-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=925&messageID=17048&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft sets time for cyberwatchesROFLAOYo...Boss man,..Um ....Like Sorry I'm late.....Um .My watch crashed...ROFLAOLet me guess..."Microsoft's Smart Personal Objects Technology SPOT and its subscription-based MSN Direct service will power the wristwatches, along with other devices to be released in the future."If you don't pay your monthly fee, your watch will stop...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:58:00 -0800</pubDate>
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