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1. It's here: The first precise pricing figure for the BlackBerry PlayBook--RIM's first (and last?) big hope in the tablet wars. A 16GB Wi-Fi-only model will cost you $499 in the US and $499 locally in Canada, and it'll be available from a decent list of stores.

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Erica Douglass was too young to feel so old. Tired and sick every time she ate, her doctors told her to slow down and spend less time at her six-year-old Silicon Valley-based web hosting company

Big companies enter into joint ventures—new business entities created through business agreements—all the time. In fact, many large companies now rely on partnering up with other companies, especially smaller ones, as a way to innovate by outsourcing their research and development efforts. "Companies can't do it on their own anymore," says Dr

IBM announced the first batch of cities this week awarded grants as part of the company's three-year, $50 million Smarter Cities Challenge . The recipients --including New Orleans, Newark, Rio de Janeiro, and Jakarta--are diverse, to say the least. So how did they end up with IBM's attention, and what happens now?