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For sure!

Technology has enabled us to improve our ability to work. It has also keep us busy not doing our work as it makes us more busy on many other things which without technology would not be there too - like playing video games, or surfing, or doing social networking, or chatting.

While working Americans largely hold positive views about the role of information and communications technology in their lives: 80% say these technologies have improved their ability to do their job; 73% say these technologies have improved their ability to share ideas with coworkers; 58% say these tools have allowed them more flexibility in the hours [...]


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I think men and women work equally hard… It is just that until now, I reckon more women still work on house chores, which is not logged in as hours worked.

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Maybe somebody should offer that job to Bill Gates - he is now retired…. and I am sure he wants to do some good.

Google’s CEO, who campaigned for the president-elect and is on his economic transition team, takes himself out of the running to be the United States’ first chief technology officer.
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The cloud is omnipresent at the Web 2.0 Summit as industry executives discuss the migration from the client to millions of virtualized servers as the information pipe.
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Many notebook manufacturers are looking at solid-state drives, or SSDs, as a more reliable alternative to hard drives. Similar to the flash memory modules inside music players and thumb drives, SSDs dont have any moving parts, so theyre faster and more durable than hard drives, and they consume less power, resulting in longer battery life.
- Video Content….

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A survey of top economists released Monday shows that the vast majority of them believe the economy has fallen into a recession that will continue throughout all of 2009.

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TSMC, the world’s largest contract chip manufacturer, said chip shipments are expected to be off 20 percent in the fourth quarter.
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