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Apple wins 5 'World Class' awards
MacNN - Apple took home five 'World Class' awards in PC World 's annual listing of the top 100 best products of 2006 . Apple's iPod nano placed no. 4 on the list, tailing craigslist, AMD's Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core chip, and Intel's Core Duo microprocessor

Video games: A nice new option for PSP
Orange County Register - The bad: The whole thing feels pretty forced. You could say the PlayStation Portable has entered a new era. For a year and a half, it has satisfied many of us as a portable delight bringing to life many traditional action-style games, as well as a

The New World of E-Commerce Software License Pricing
TechNewsWorld - New, open-ended and usage-based licenses tied to business processes or metrics are beginning to replace named-user models at the enterprise level. More flexible Software as a Service and Managed Service Provider license options are gaining traction

Reports say AMD-ATI merger in the works
Ars Technica - Is AMD eyeing ATI for an acquisition? That's the latest rumor on Wall Street. Industry analyst Apjit Walia of RBC Capital Markets is predicting a merger or acquisition in the not-too-distant future, saying that ATI is ripe for the picking. AMD

IT Customer Service
ZDNet Blogs - A lot of people complain about the arrogance of IT people and our general failure to understand either the customer or the business. So what happens when IT is the business? or, at least, where IT has a clear role on the customer service delivery

Open Source Telephony: The Devil's Still in the Details, Part 2
TechNewsWorld - Of course, it's good to have choices, and it's good to be able to work in a variety of languages and solve a variety of problems. However, too many choices can make projects more expensive and more difficult, perhaps even unwieldy to the point of