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A Q&A with Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers. Cisco's real ambition, as articulated by Chambers, is to become the most important IT company of all.

The iPad makes the iPhone -- Apple's game-changing technology of 2007, whose impact still reverberates through the wireless, mobile, and computing industries -- obsolete.

The suggestion that the iPad could displace the netbook has triggered a firestorm of criticism, as well as some passionate support. Or maybe Apple just beat everyone to the smart book market?

Are wireless voice price drops part of a secret plan to increase data access rates later?

George Orwell would be proud of AT&T's latest series of ads. The company is attempting to convince us that it favors Net neutrality and an open Internet, when in fact it is lobbying hard for the opposite result.

ABI Research finds that the Netherlands, France and Singapore have among the lowest prices for mobile broadband plans. In France, an unlimited download plan costs just over $15 per month. Some countries have already seen the introduction of innovative pricing plans, including pricing by time rather than data downloaded.

The number of high-tech jobs in all industries Silicon Valley declined by 86,000, or 16.5 percent, between 2001 and 2008, according a federal study of employment trends in the valley.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a $1.3 million contract to the Electric Power Research Institute to help the agency determine the architecture and initial standards for an electric-power smart grid.

Reducing the number of mobile software platforms, but not by too much, is the key to unleashing pent up creativity in the mobile market, executives said on Wednesday. But consolidation in the mobile industry is difficult and if it's not managed correctly, everyone will suffer, executives said during a panel discussion at the CTIA conference in Las Vegas.

Biomedical informatics researchers at IBM and the Mayo Clinic have launched a new open source consortium focused on natural language processing (NLP), in an effort to help doctors share diagnosis and treatment information.