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1- IBM Bought out a company to get out it of bussiness because it was offering the same services for cheaper."So when an upstart, Platform Solutions in Sunnyvale, Calif., developed software that turned standard servers into systems that mimicked I.B.M.’s expensive mainframes, Big Blue fought back. After legal action failed to fend off the pipsqueak, I.B.M. resorted to a bear hug: it bought Platform in July for $150 million. And then it promptly terminated the innovative product. [|nytimes.com/2009/03/23/technology/companies/23mainframe.html?_r=1&ref]

2- IBM faces threats from diiferent companies that will try to provide the same services for cheaper. Despite eliminating the Platform threat, I.B.M. still faces the wrath of many in the computer industry. The Computer and Communications Industry Association, a trade group backed by the likes of [|Google], [|Oracle] and [|Microsoft], described the Platform deal as “a clear attempt by I.B.M. to purchase a company solely to foreclose competition in the mainframe marketplace, protecting its cash cow at the expense of consumers. [|nytimes.com/2009/03/23/technology/companies/23mainframe.html?_r=1&ref]]

3- IBM is buying compines that secure finances to get rid of the competition" I.B.M. is now negotiating to buy [|Sun] for about $7 billion, and if the deal were to occur, I.B.M. would also gain a monopoly on the key storage systems used for mainframes." [|nytimes.com/2009/03/23/technology/companies/23mainframe.html?_r=1&ref]]

4- people have been making money by sellin apps online. "But after reading a few get-rich-quick stories about programmers making good money from selling applications designed to run on the iPhone or iPod Touch, he decided to give it a go. How hard could it be?"

[|washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/21/AR2009032100067.html]

5- you can make what you make in 4 months in a week. "In one week, I made what I would've made in four months," he said. "That's when I decided to pull the trigger."

[|washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/21/AR2009032100067.html]

6- apples app store has created a way for programmers to make money by creating apps to sell on itunes."Apple's online software shop has given rise to a new set of entrepreneurial programmers such as Moore, hoping to make a living, or a bit of supplemental income, by dreaming up software products that will prompt iPhone users to part with a buck or two"

[|washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/21/AR2009032100067.html]

7- Apple is providing the programmers tools to make new apps. "[|Apple] Inc. said it will give programmers a range of new tools they can use to build software for its iPhone. The company also unveiled features for the phone users have said are long overdue, including the ability to copy and paste text."

[|online.wsj.com/article/SB123731209449458761.html]

8- apps allow apple to keep proftign from the iphone after it has been sold" The changes underscore how software has become an increasingly key way for Apple to keep profiting from iPhones, even after consumers have bought the devices. The App Store is also strategically significant, since it keeps consumers tied to using their iPhones"

[|online.wsj.com/article/SB123731209449458761.html]

9- apple says the apps improve the experince of the iphone or ipod touch. ""It's just going to be a better user experience," said Seth Sternberg, CEO of instant messaging service Meebo, which will offer an iPhone version now that Apple is allowing the ability to notify users of incoming messages."

[|online.wsj.com/article/SB123731209449458761.html]

10- google is wroking on the privcay issues by blobign out car plates in the google street veiw." Matt Brittin told the [|Changing Media conference] that the whole privacy issue had been sorted, with the Information Commissioner giving his blessing to the project, and a big effort by Google to "blob" any faces or car number-plates caught by its cameras."

[|bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/03/my_streetview_of_shame.html]

11- google is allowing people the choice to remove thier houses if they want. "He also promised that anyone who is unhappy to have their home featured in Street View will be able to get in touch and have it removed"

[|bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/03/my_streetview_of_shame.html]

12- the article states- Cyber crime - internet banking and credit card fraud - is now the fastest growing sector of global organised crime, increasing at a rate of about 40% per year. With Brazil thought to have by far the largest number of cyber criminals

[|news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7403472.stm]

13- you can learn online how to commit online crimes. "Fabio - not his real name - is taking his online lessons from experienced computer hackers. He is disarmingly matter-of-fact about his new career"

[|news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7403472.stm]

14- cyber crime is growing rapidly. " Cyber crime's turnover has been growing rapidly ever since, so that now estimates of its value stand at that huge $100 billion figure annuall"

[|news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7403472.stm]

15- cyber crimials have easy acces to the internet in braizl the main cyber crime country. "Access to the web is easy thanks to the cheap internet cafes studded around the suburbs of Brazil's economic hubs - where most young people use them to play games or educate themselves"

[|news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7403472.stm]