Dell signs deal with British mobile retailer

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News: Dell signs deal with British mobile retailer
News: IBM's India lab develops disaster management tool
News: Mayer: translation, universal search Google's future
News: Ask.com to let users scrub search records
News: Tomy to release tiny humanoid robot
News: Google's chief legal officer slapped with SEC fines
Q&A: Wozniak on Apple, AI and future inventions
ITWhirled: Geek Comic of the Week: "The Mighty Offenders"


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Dell signs deal with British mobile retailer
Dell Inc. has signed a deal with a U.K. mobile phone retailer to distribute free laptops with the purchase of a broadband Internet access subscription, continuing the company's push into the retail market.


IBM's India lab develops disaster management tool
IBM Corp.’s India Research Laboratory has developed the Resiliency Maturity Index (RMI), a framework that quantitatively assesses the ability of an organization to recover from a variety of disasters such as floods, power outages, software glitches, epidemics, and terrorist attacks.


Mayer: translation, universal search Google's future
Universal search and automated translation are big parts of Google Inc.'s future, a company executive said Friday in Beijing.


Ask.com to let users scrub search records
Search portal Ask.com plans to make it easier for Web searchers to cover their tracks.


Tomy to release tiny humanoid robot
Toy robots have been in the dog house since the demise of Sony Corp.'s Aibo, but another Japanese company, Tomy Co. Ltd., hopes to change all that. In October it will start selling what it says is the world's smallest humanoid robot.


Google's chief legal officer slapped with SEC fines
Google Inc.'s chief legal officer was fined by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Thursday over accounting issues arising from when he was chief financial officer (CFO) at former company.


Q&A

Wozniak on Apple, AI and future inventions
Steve Wozniak isn't perhaps as well known as his Apple Inc. cofounder Steve Jobs, but "Woz" invented the Apple I in 1976 and the Apple II in 1977, which was one of the best-selling PCs of that time. In this interview, Wozniak, who turns 57 on Aug. 11, talks about how he met Jobs, his most cherished inventions and why he believes thinking robots and artificial intelligence will never happen.


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Geek Comic of the Week: "The Mighty Offenders"
Are you still a super-hero if your "super" powers are lame? And if you have to hold down a day job? This strip, described as "'Clerks' meets 'X-Men,' poses just those questions.