Apple cuts iPhone price, offers iPod Touch ... HP announces new gaming PCs, iPaqs ... Microsoft releases more Windows Media Extenders

TODAY'S TOP STORY
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Microsoft releases more Windows Media Extenders
Microsoft Corp. is increasing the range of video formats that PCs running its Windows software can pipe to televisions around the home, with support for a new range of Extenders for Windows Media Center devices from hardware manufacturers.


NEWS
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Nokia, Intel beef up new security appliance

Intel gets ready for Penryn, may release Silverthorne early

IBM touts server with embedded virtualization

HP announces new gaming PCs, iPaqs

Wikipedia blocked in China yet again


WINDOWS TIP
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Rebuilding the Outlook search index
By Mitch Tulloch, MTIT Enterprises

If you're using Outlook 2007, and searching for a contact in the Outlook Contacts list, and coming up empty, try rebuilding the index on your machine. It worked for me. Here's how.


CAREER
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Leading Reasons Why CIOs Get Fired
Every CIO should become familiar with the facts about why some contemporaries at other organizations get fired. Sometimes an enterprise simply hires the wrong person. Other times the CIO simply falls down on the job.


TODAY'S POLL
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The first computer I ever owned...

* Ran Windows XP/Vista
* Ran Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000
* Ran Windows 3.x
* Ran DOS
* Ran OS X
* Ran the Classic Mac OS
* Was made by Commodore
* Was made by Atari
* Took up the better part of a room

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