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Apple’s share prices have begun climbing back since Feb. 23, closing Tuesday at $208.85. It’s not yet quite clear why — it could be the imminent shipping of the iPod or the shareholders’ meeting Feb. 25, among other things. Still, investors should take what they can get. They’ll have to — Cupertino isn’t about to fork over any dividends soon. The company wants lots of cash on hand for security and so it can make big purchases without having to borrow lots of money, CEO Steve Jobs explained when asked about dividends.

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Of the China Market, Cheaper New iPhones and the iPad

Customer experience reared its head in my life this month. My phone service went out, which was not a catastrophe for me because in addition to the landline, I have a cell and a nifty VoIP line that lets me talk through my computer. Parenthetically, I love my VoIP line because, though I live in the Boston area, the VoIP line has a 415 area code, which you may know is San Francisco’s. I don’t know if it’s my heart that’s out there, but certainly a piece of me lives in San Francisco, and for some reason that makes me happy.

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The Sometimes-Deadly ‘Customer Experience’ Strategy

Nowadays, CIOs need to both cut costs and increase performance. Energy has never been more important in working toward this productivity advantage. It’s now time for IT leaders to gain control over energy use — and misuse — in enterprise data centers. More often than not, very little energy capacity analysis and planning is being done on data centers that are five years old or older. Even newer data centers don’t always gather and analyze the available energy data being created amid all of the components.

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Smart Grids for Smarter Data Centers

A federal grand jury has indicted four owners and key employees of a company that prosecutors said for years illegally cornered the market on the best concert and sporting event seats. The 60-page indictment accuses the men of directing an international conspiracy to defeat security schemes at Ticketmaster, Tickets.com and other online ticketing sites. It claims the company controlled thousands of Internet and email addresses, telephone numbers, and credit card accounts to make it appear that thousands of individual consumers were buying seats.

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4 Wiseguys Indicted for Gobbling Up Choice Concert Tix

Apple has filed a lawsuit against smartphone manufacturer HTC, alleging that the company has infringed on 20 patents related to the iPhone. The complaint cites Google’s Nexus One, the T-Mobile G1, the Droid Eris, the Touch Diamond, the Touch Pro2, and the Imagio as examples of infringing devices. Apple also filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission seeking to block imports of these products. Apple decided not to sit by and watch competitors steal its patented inventions instead of creating their own original technology, said CEO Steve Jobs.

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Apple Sues HTC for Patent Thievery