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Corporate America took another step along its long road to recovery on Tuesday as companies from the industrial heartland of Peoria to the technology hubs of Silicon Valley reported stronger-than-expected profits and bullish outlooks. 

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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - - Apple's iconic chief executive Steve Jobs has returned to work after a five-month medical leave of absence during which he underwent a liver transplant.

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Steve Jobs has had a liver transplant during his medical leave but is expected to return to work as expected later this month after a medical leave he announced to a shocked Apple community in January, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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Personal computer makers are increasingly prioritizing "green" strategies, creating a pivotal point of competition for customers that are becoming more attuned to their financial -- and societal -- benefits.

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Tags:  HP, Apple, Dell, Accenture, Forrester, Greenpeace, TBR, Bonnie Nixon, Tod Arbogast, Sally Cohen, NGO’s, Green notebooks, Global IT News, 

Apple has flatly refused to tell anyone just what chips lie inside the iPhone 3G S. In fact, while Apple insists that the “s” in 3G S stands for speed, it could equally well stand for secrecy. But T-Mobile in the Netherlands apparently didn’t get the memo, and has gone ahead and posted the hardware specs on the product page for the new models.

Read more: http://globalitnews.blogspot.com/2009/06/t-mobile-accidentally-posts-secret.html

Tags: TMobile, Iphone, Apple, Leak, RAM, Wired, Global IT News, 3G, Netherlands, OSX, Palm Pre, leapfrogging, Wired Gadget Lab, 

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether big tech firms, including Google, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) broke antitrust law by possibly colluding on hiring policies, according to a report in the Washington Post.

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http://globaldevelopmentnews.blogspot.com/2009/06/justice-department-probes-big-tech-firm.html

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