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Verizon to spend $1B on Wireless Upgrade

So honestly, if you want to get a new cell phone - make it a Verizon plan. If you work for a company that makes CDMA technology for Verizon, don't sell your shares. And you guys at Qualcomm are the luckiest ever - the company's stock has gone through the roof, up by nearly $20 in the past year - chart

Apple's unlikely Guardian Angel

Who is Apple's guardian angel? It's the firm that Mac users most love to hate, the bogeyman of the Mac universe, the one company whose products some Mac fans refuse to use on principle. You're not gonna believe this, but it's Microsoft

Yahoo! News - Tech Firms Defend Moving Jobs Overseas

Tech companies provide their rationale for the jobs "out"flux. Some of the reasons cited being garnering a foothold in foreign markets among others. For the first time though, the tacit has been made explicit, companies are hiring foreign candidates with more acute math and science skills compared to their American counterparts - is this the wake-up call to American schools at every level to up the ante and focus more on imbibing 'rithmetic and science to the next generation of kids?