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http://gigaom.com/2010/10/27/is-apple-about-to-cut-out-the-carriers/ However, if Apple is doing an end run around the carrier by putting its own SIM inside the iPhone, it could do what Google with its NexusOne could not , which is create an easy way to sell a handset via the web without carrier involvement.

Is Apple About To Cut Out the Carriers?: Tech News «

The Wi-Fi Alliance is about to drop a wireless connectivity bombshell called Wi-Fi Direct that will enable device-to-device connections using current Wi-Fi standards. http://mashable.com/2010/10/25/wi-fi-direct-launch/

Wi-Fi Direct Connects Any Wi-Fi Device to Any Other Wi-Fi Device Anywhere

http://mashable.com/2010/09/13/wal-mart-family-mobile/ Wal-Mart just announced a dirt-cheap mobile phone plan under its own brand name — a first for the department store, which previously offered low-cost plans under the Verizon and Sprint brand names, among others.

Wal-Mart Debuts Its Own Branded Wireless Plans

Information technology in transition: The end of Wintel | The Economist

http://www.economist.com/node/16693547 THEY were the Macbeths of information technology (IT): a wicked couple who seized power and abused it in bloody and avaricious ways.
Computerworld - Sure, consumer gadgets are getting most of the attention these days, but data centers are getting some love too. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179865/6_cool_innovations_for_the_data_center

6 cool innovations for the data center - Computerworld

Together the telcos, wh0 only launched their competing services less than five years ago now have a more than 5 percent share of U.S. pay-TV homes. http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2010/07/23/telcos-are-winning-the-cable-tv-battle-but-are-they-losing-the-broadband-war/

Telcos are winning the cable TV battle but are they losing the broadband war? | Analysis & Opinion |

Viva ATT...

Orange

http://gizmodo.com/5592956/is-3d-already-dying Earlier today I reported on the unlikelihood that the next Batman movie will be in 3D . But is that a fluke or part of a trend?

Is 3D Already Dying?

http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/21/bit-ly-rolls-out-improved-real-time-analytics-dashboard-for-enterprise-users/

Bit.ly Rolls Out Improved Real-Time Analytics Dashboard For Enterprise Users

Jason Kincaid currently works as a writer at TechCrunch.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/10-Reasons-Why-Facebook-Wont-Challenge-Google-in-Search-116830/ With Facebook's Open Graph protocol, TripAdvisor.com and other Websites are showing up in Facebook's search results, with links back to their Website.

10 Reasons Why Facebook Won't Challenge Google in Search - Cloud Computing from eWeek

Undercover Report From Foxconn's Hell Factory - Foxconn - Gizmod

Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly sent 20-year-old reporter Liu Zhi Yi undercover in Foxconn's factory in Shenzhen, China. For 28 days, he experienced dreadful conditions that the factory's 400,000 employees endure, churning out iPods, iPads, and iPhones for Apple nonstop. There's no doubt about it . http://gizmodo.com/5542527/undercover-report-from-foxconns-hell-factory
Total consumer revenue connections at the end of the [second] quarter were 44.3 million, compared with 46.3 million at the end of the second quarter of 2009 and 45.0 million at the end of the first quarter of 2010.

Like Voice, US Telcos Losing Broadband Subs Too