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Samsungs Galaxy Note and S II getting Ice Cream Sandwich soonNew flagship phones will join Galaxy Nexus to run Android 4.0 by end of March
T-Mobile to small-biz owners: Lets get SquareThe carrier will offer Square credit-card readers in select T-Mobile stores around the country.
Industrial Productionrepresents the monthly percentage change in industrial output as measured by the Federal Reserve. The number measures the physical quantity of items produced, unlike sales value, which combines quantity and price. The number is expected to rise 0.4 percent for May, the same increase as April.
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Initial Claimsrefers to the number of people who filed for unemployment benefits each week as reported by the Department of Labor. Claims will be reported for the week ending June 8.
The monthlyCapacity Utilizationreport from the Federal Reserve indicates the percentage of industrial capacity in use. Analysts expect this measurement of industrial activity to advance to 75.7 percent in May from the previous months 75.5 percent.
Investment bank CIBC World Markets will hold a telecommunicationsconferencecalled the Communications Food Chain at the Plaza Hotel in New York, June 10-12. Companies scheduled to make presentations include Lucent Technologies, Agere Systems, Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks and AT&T Wireless. Verizon Communications CEO Ivan Seidenberg and Motorola COO Ed Breen will make keynote speeches.
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The802.11 Conference and Expotakes place at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, June 10-12. The conference will focus on 802.11 technology, a wirelessstandardthat PCs and other electronics use to communicate with each other and get wireless Internet access.
Investment banking firm Bear Sterns will hold itstechnology conferenceat the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York, June 11-13. Keynote speakers include Applied Materials CEO James Morgan, Texas Instruments COO Rich Templeton, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos and Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy.
iRobot may send its Ava bot to medical schooliRobot invests $6 million in InTouch Health to test its robots, including Ava, for use in telemedicine and assisted care at healthcare cilities.
CMGIowns and operates a handful of Internet-based businesses. Per-share estimate from one analyst for the third fiscal quarter: loss of 13 cents.
Hardware enthusiasts will congregate at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, Calif., June 10-12 for the USB 2.0 DevelopersConference. AUSB(universal serial bus) is a port that connects computer peripherals to PCs.
Troubled long-distance telecommunications carrierWorldComwill hold its annual meeting of shareholders on June 14 starting at 1:00 p.m. The event will beWebcast.
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Cell phone giant Nokia will give a midquarterupdateto investors and analysts on the companys financial performance on June 11. A press release will come out around 2:00 a.m., and the company will conduct a conference call at 5:00 a.m. that will be Webcast.
Woman claims Facebook comments world recordHow can everyone not be excited when there are more than 1 million comments on a Facebook post? A woman and more than 100 fellow FrontierVille aficionados claim to have achieved this.
TheMichigan Consumer Sentiment Indexis a measure of consumer confidence as reported monthly by the University of Michigan. Experts forecast preliminary numbers for the index to tick up to 97 in June from the previous months 96.9.
Cosmo editor ponies up $30 million for the future of newsThe new David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation will bring together students from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Stanfords Engineering School in a bid to help inspire a new generation of news consumption tools and applications.
Retail Salesfor the month of May is expected to stay unchanged compared with Aprils gain of 1.2 percent as reported by the Commerce Department. Excluding automobile sales, Wall Street expects retail sales to climb 0.3 percent compared with the previous months gain of 1.0 percent.
Conferences covering wireless networking standards 802.11 and Bluetooth technology also take place this week.
Following are some of the notable tech-related events scheduled for the week of June 10 through June 14.Technology natics will have a menu of events to choose from this week that will help satisfy any cravings for information on the wireless sector.
Government think tank the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research will host aconferencetitled The Future of Telecom Regulation at the Wohlstetter Conference Center in Washington, D.C., on June 11, 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
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Open messaging software maker Jabber will hold a conference,JabberConf, at the Forum Hotel in Munich, Germany, June 12-14.
TheNetworked Economy Summitwill take place at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Reston, Va., June 9-11. The event will focus on technology security and features keynote speeches by representatives from Verizon Communications, Nasdaq Stock Market, AOL Time Warner, VeriSign and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.
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Mobile Governmenttakes place at the Swissotel in Washington, D.C., June 13-14. The event will focus on how government organizations can benefit from using wireless technology.
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Proponents of wireless technology will gather for theBluetooth Congressin Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 11-14. Bluetooth allows PCs, handhelds and mobile phones to communicate wirelessly within a distance of about 30 feet.
E-waste recycled to make geeky decorA Chilean artist finds a creative way to breathe new life into old tech while a statement about e-waste. Find out more about the one-of-a-kind N+ew chairs here.
The Federal Reserve will release the Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions, also known as theBeige Book. The study comes out eight times a year and gathers anecdotal information from business leaders on the economic climate in each Federal Reserve district.
The week ahead: Wireless week jacob mineau michigan tech,The 3G World Congress takes place in Hong Kong this week and features presentations by top executives in the wireless industry that will almost certainly touch upon the sectors sometimesuncertainmarch toward third-generation wireless technology advances.
Business Inventoriesrepresents the percentage change of the amount of goods in inventory in the United States as reported by the Department of Commerce. Wall Street predicts inventories will ll 0.2 percent in April compared with a 0.3 percent decrease in March.
Apple names John Browett new retail chiefCompany says the CEO of European technology retailer Dixons will take over the currently empty position in April.
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Research firm Forrester will host a financialconferenceat the New York Marriott Marquis, June 9-11. The event is for executives from banks, brokerages, and insurance companies who want to learn about the technology that customers could use to organize their financial lives. Speakers include ETrade Financial Chief Executive Officer Christos Cotsakos, FleetBoston Financial CEO Charles Gifford, Bank of America CEO Kenneth Lewis and former American Express CEO Harvey Golub.
Earnings releases from tech companies are still scarce, but desktop publishing software maker Adobe Systems reports Thursday. Analysts expect the company to post a profit of 25 cents for the second fiscal quarter versus 34 cents for the same quarter last year.
The3G World Congresstakes place at the Hong Kong Convjacob mineau michigan techention and Exhibition Centre in Hong Kong, China, June 10-13. Wireless telecommunications carriers are upgrading their networks to reach 3G, or third-generation technology, which is expected to offer data and Internet connections that rival current broadband speeds. Keynote speakers include Juniper Networks CEO Scott Kriens, Qualcomm CEO Irwin Jacobs, Real Networks CEO Rob Glaser and PalmSource CEO David Nagel. PalmSource is a unit of Palm. Representatives from Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks, Ericsson and other companies will also make presentations.
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Analysts will also look for how big a jolt the company is getting from sales of anew versionof Photoshop software.
The MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge will hold aneventcalled Entrepreneurial Lessons Learned at the Tang Center on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Mass., on June 12. Entrepreneurs such as Lycos founder Bob Davis and others will look back over the past few years and share their insights and experiences.
Microsoft and Intel will conduct acourseon Microsofts .Net business software at the Hotel Inter-Continental Dallas in Addison, Texas, June 11-12.
Adobe Systemsmakes desktop publishing software. Per-share consensus estimate for the second fiscal quarter: profit of 25 cents.
TheProducer Price Indexis expected to rise 0.1 percent in May from last months decline of 0.2 percent. The core PPI, which excludes food and energy prices, is expected to increase 0.1 percent from Aprils gain of 0.1 percent. This Labor Department index tracks the cost of what manucturers pay for raw goods to make products.
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Net2Phoneprovides software and services that let people make phone calls from their PCs. Per-share consensus estimate for the third fiscal quarter: loss of 35 cents.
Theimport and export price indexfrom the Department of Commerce indicates the percentage change in import and export prices for May. No estimates were available.
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Microsoft tweaks Windows 8 file management after user feedbackWindows 8 file management will now get some additional tools and tweaks thanks to several comments and suggestions from the user population.
Research firm Gartner will hostPlanetStorage 2002at the Rio Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, June 10-13. The event is for tech professionals responsible for their companys computer data storage needs and will address what kinds of software, hardware and system design are needed in todays networks. Veritas Software Chairman Gary Bloom and Gartner analysts will make keynote presentations.
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Mobile phone maker Nokia will issue a midquarter business update Tuesday, a few weeks after research firm Gartner reported that worldwide cell phone sales for the overall industry stalled in the first quarter.
