Global Business News

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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Tags: Apple, Yahoo, DuPont, Coca-Cola, Credit Suisse, Merck, iPhone, BNY ConvergEx, DJIA, Dow Jones, Caterpillar, Wall Street, Nasdaq Composite, Silicon Valley, United, Continental, Southwest.

Hewlett-Packard introduced an Internet-connected inkjet printer that lets people print coupons, movie tickets, maps, and other items from Web sites without having to turn on a PC.

Read more: http://globalbestpractice.blogspot.com/2009/07/hp-web-connected-printer-no-pc-needed.html

Tags:  HP Photosmart, HP, Touchsmart Web, USA Today, Google, Fandango, Coupons.com, DreamWorks Animation, Nickelodeon, Web Sudoku, Weathernews, App Store, iPhone, iPod Touch, HP Apps Studio, Snapfish, Bluetooth, Global IT News,

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.

Read more: http://globalitandbusinessnews.blogspot.com/2009/06/apple-ceo-jobs-back-at-work.html

Tags: Jobs back at work, Steve jobs, Apple, iPhone, NeXT, Macintosh, Pixar, Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney Company’s biggest shareholder, iPod, Steve Wozniak, liver transplant, global IT news,  

Jean Anleu may be the first to be Twitarrested by his own government. To be sure, there are paranoid and repressive governments who fear the Twitterverse, and have taken actions.

Read more: http://globalitnews.blogspot.com/2009/06/first-twitter-arrest.html

Tags: Open Salon, Guatemala, Eisenhower, Mayan, Twitter, Twitarrested, Jean Anleu, twitterverse, Guatemala City, iPhone, Kafka, blackberry, dissident, Global IT News, Politics, Technology and Politics, 

IBM introduces phone applications that make it easier to follow all the action from the tournament.

IBM is courting tennis fans with a trio of applications that will allow them to follow Wimbledon moment by moment, whether or not they're at London's famed grass courts.

Read more: http://globalitnews.blogspot.com/2009/06/ibm-launches-seer-android-at-wimbledon.html

Tags: IBM, Wimbledon, All England Lawn and Tennis club, iPhone, Apple App store, Rob McCowen, Seer Android, T-Mobile, Java enabled, G1 phone, GPS, Global IT News, Google android, 

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.

Read more: http://globalblognetwork.blogspot.com/2009/06/steve-jobs-had-liver-transplant.html

Tags:  Steve Jobs, WSJ, Apple, Liver transplants, illness, united network for organ sharing, tim cook, nasdaq, wired, iPhone, global economic pulse,  

Want the next Mozart for a pittance? Crowdsoucing may be here to help...

Though you may have never heard of crowdsourcing, since you’re someone with an active interest in gaming, you may have already participated in it. Crowdsourcing describes a task which is delegated to a group of individuals. The group is typically quite large, with each member usually unknown to each other and only linked through their one common goal. If you’ve been folding@home, you’ve been crowdsourced. It clearly works in science projects, but how does this relate to game development?

Read more: http://globalbestpractice.blogspot.com/2009/06/crowdsourcing-next-game-design-solution.html

Tags: Crowdsourcing, Game Development, Abbey Road Studios, Aztec Odyssey, Kristian Dupont, minimum noise package, Global IT News, Inovaz, iPhone, Minimum noise, Video games, 

Understanding that the Medium is the Message Matters More Than Ever

Since 1964, when Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase "The medium is the message" in his most well-known book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, folks have scratched their heads over and argued about the meaning of those words. It's quite simple really: What McLuhan is telling us is that the characteristics of a medium influence how the message is received and understood.

Read more: http://globalbestpractice.blogspot.com/2009/06/medium-is-still-message.html

Tags: Marshall Mcluhan, Global Best Practices, Marketers, Social Media, Pepsi, iPhone, Global IT News, Mean Joe Greene, NASCAR, PDA, messages,

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, 

A small number of super-geeky obsessives are abuzz over the upcoming launch of Facebook Usernames, an exciting new feature that will let you put some parts of your name into a web address.

Since its announcement yesterday, there's been a lot of excited discussion of the feature, but in a dashes.com exclusive I can exclusively report this exclusive look at the future of the feature. We'll also cover how the feature's rollout will be covered by the technology trade press and the mainstream press.

June 13, 12:01am: Facebook launches Facebook Usernames. The gold rush is on!

Read more: http://globalitnews.blogspot.com/2009/06/future-of-facebook-usernames.html

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