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The dollar continued to slide this week, hovering near monthly lows versus major currencies as worries about an economic slowdown weighed on investors.

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A Gartner analyst explains the difference between paying for an outcome versus a technology and why software is not a very healthy business model

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Applied Materials had to fly in 100 interviewers just to screen all the job applicants for its new Solar Technology Center in Xi’an, China, last year. The company wanted to fill 260 high-tech jobs. It got 26,000 resumes. A fraction of those applicants were invited to interview. The final selectees, board member Andy Karsner tells me, “were top-of-their-class, English-speaking engineers. They’re the best of the best.” Now some of the most advanced research in this high-value, fast-growing field is being done in China — instead of in the U.S. with American engineers. Why should we care? Because it’s graduation season, when we see how starkly the direction of the American educational system differs from the way that faster-growing economies are headed. Those Chinese solar researchers are the cream of an engineering crop that included an estimated 10,000 Ph.D. graduates last year. This spring the U.S. will graduate about 8,000 Ph.D. [...]

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The new subscription-based model can help users who need more flexible application infrastructures

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Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday it was recalling more than 400,000 older-model vehicles sold in the United States, citing potential steering-related problems in both.

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Business professionals sometimes come up with less-than-professional reasons for being late to the office, according to a poll. Did the dog eat your cell phone, too?

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Called the Dice Talent Network, the new initiative combines social recruiting tools with a specialized job board environment. Employers can communicate directly via chat or IM

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VIDEO The comapny’s local president, Siobahn Byron, talks about opportunities around cost reduction and improved performance through managed services, security and storage technologies

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Federal ruling says jailbreaking ‘innocuous at worst, beneficial at best’

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The release by Wikileaks of more than 90,000 documents about military operations in Afghanistan may just be the start of problems for the U.S. government

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