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March 17, 2010

Why Is China So Entrepreneurial? Toyota Heads Up Electric Car Group Retail Sales Rise Unexpectedly Twitter To Send Tweets Across Web @Anywhere Puts Twitter on Big Sites Apple COO Gets $5 Million Bonus China has been called one of the most entrepreneurial places on earth, but many Americans do not recognize how common entrepreneurship is in China, or why the country is so full of entrepreneurs. Toyota and other Japanese automakers together with a power firm have set up a group to promote electric vehicles by marketing the technology abroad and standardizing recharging machines. Retail sales posted a surprising increase in February as consumers did not let major snowstorms stop them from storming the malls, offering hope that recovery from the recession is gaining momentum. In a move to broaden its reach across the Internet, Twitter has announced a new @anywhere service that lets users send and receive 140-character messages while surfing on other web sites. Twitter works great for the "twitterati," but in many ways it has failed to penetrate the mainstream web. So Twitter is moving toward the mainstream with its @Anywhere platform for media web sites. Apple's chief operating officer Timothy Cook is getting a $5 million bonus for "outstanding performance" running the company while CEO Steve Jobs was on medical leave.   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   FULL STORY   Why Is China So Entrepreneurial?   Toyota Heads Up Electric Car Group Retail Sales Rise Unexpectedly Recession recovery gains momentum.   FULL STORY Twitter To Send Tweets Across Web JavaScript drop-in shares messages.   FULL STORY @Anywhere Puts Twitter on Big Sites Adding advertising will be easier, too.   FULL STORY Apple COO Gets $5 Million Bonus Was 'outstanding' while Jobs was out.   FULL STORY Business Briefing More Toyota Heads Up Electric Car Group Retail Sales Rise Unexpectedly Apple COO Gets $5 Million Bonus E-Commerce More Retail Sales Rise Unexpectedly Twitter To Send Tweets Across Web @Anywhere Puts Twitter on Big Sites Small Business More Why Is China So Entrepreneurial? BBB Customer Complaints Are Up The Business Role of Interim Execs Tech Trends More Geolocation at South by Southwest Social Networks Boost TV Ratings Target Intros Mobile-Coupon Program Mobile Industry News More Twitter To Send Tweets Across Web Google Feature Finds Products Nearby Palm Teeters in Crowded Market Press Releases More MetraTech Fuels MeetingZone Portal TechExcel Upgrades CRM Solutions OnBase ERP Bolsters SAP Systems

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Enterprise Hardware Spotlight

Intel Boosts PC Speed with New $125 Solid-State Drive Intel says booting up PCs will be faster with its new 40GB X25-V Value SATA solid-state drive used in dual-drive notebook configurations or added to a desktop with an existing hard drive.   iPad Will Read Books Aloud, Support Open EPUB Format Along with accepting advance orders for its iPad, Apple has revealed a details about how e-books will be handled. The iPad will read the contents of pages and use the open EPUB format.   HP Turns Steve Jobs' Flash Snub Against Apple's iPad No watered-down Internet. No sacrifices. That's the promise Hewlett-Packard Vice President and CTO Phil McKinney offered consumers in a blog post about the PC giant's upcoming tablet.

Mobile Enterprise Spotlight

Lenovo Plans Mobile-Internet Business Focus Lenovo Group expects wireless Internet products to account for up to 80 percent of its sales within five years as it pursues expansion in faster-growing emerging markets, CEO Yang Yuanqing said.   Palm Teeters in Crowded Smartphone Market Last year, Palm thought it had all the pieces for a turnaround: A new CEO known for making the iPod a household name, a sleek new smartphone called the Pre and fresh, intuitive operating software.   Legal System Catches Up To Texting Jurors Enough with the tweets, the blogs, the Internet searches. That's the message being communicated by courts across the country as jurors using their portable electronic devices cause chaos.

Enterprise Technology Spotlight

Dell Sues To Recover LCD Overcharges from Asian Cartel Dell is accusing five Japanese and Taiwanese companies of price-fixing on LCD panels. The computer maker is seeking damages from Sharp, Hitachi, Toshiba, Seiko Epson, and HannStar.   Low-Power Xeon 5600 Boosts Servers, Workstations Intel has rolled out a new range of Xeon processor chips that are based on the chipmaker's 32nm logic technology featuring second-generation high-k metal gate transistors.   Dubious Honor Bestowed on Federal CIOs As the Justice Department hunts for the latest batch of missing federal e-mails, the officials who oversee spending of the $71 billion a year IT budget received a dubious honor from an oversight group.

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