Dell to launch convertible tablet PC this year

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News: Dell to launch convertible tablet PC this year
News: Motorola's solar LCD promises to charge your cell phone
News: Mobile provider Alltel agrees to US$27.5B buyout
News: AusCERT: Beware the RFID mark of the beast
News: Report: Google, Salesforce.com discussing alliance
News: Mobile marketing deal could generate more ads
News: Chinese XML format will get Microsoft converter
ITWhirled: 'We can make her better than she was. Better...stronger...faster.'


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Dell to launch convertible tablet PC this year
Dell Inc. is planning to sell its first convertible tablet PC later this year.


Motorola's solar LCD promises to charge your cell phone
Motorola Inc. has patented a way of keeping your mobile phone charged using only sunlight.


Mobile provider Alltel agrees to US$27.5B buyout
Mobile phone and wireless services provider Alltel Corp. on Sunday agreed to a US$27.5 billion buyout, a deal likely to spur more such acquisitions in North America.


AusCERT: Beware the RFID mark of the beast
Technology is advancing so fast that consumers now live in a somewhat disturbing age where their underwear can track their movements and let others know what they are doing.


Report: Google, Salesforce.com discussing alliance
Google Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc. are discussing an alliance that could see the two bundle Web-based applications, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.


Mobile marketing deal could generate more ads
Advertisements could start popping up on your mobile phone soon, if a deal between Acuity Mobile and Acxiom Corp., expected to be announced on Monday, takes off.


Chinese XML format will get Microsoft converter
Microsoft Corp. will collaborate with the Chinese government and universities to make a plug-in that will let users read and save documents written in two different XML (Extensible Markup Language) file formats.


ITWHIRLED

'We can make her better than she was. Better...stronger...faster.'
OK, so Patsy Brisendine was injured when she fell off a stepladder, not when she crashed her experimental spacecraft. But that hasn't stopped her doctor for from touting her as the "bionic woman." Her new artificial knee is built with a new metal foam to which her ligaments and tendons can attach, thus stabilizing the knee. Supervision will apparently have to wait, however.