A good percentage of small to medium businesses are planning to upgrade to 802.11n in the next 12 months, according to a survey from ABI Research. By Marin Perez

The ThinkCentre A62 is also available with Lenovo's optional Dash 1.1 card, which lets an IT department remotely manage, boot, audit and update a desktop. By Antone Gonsalves InformationWeek Lenovo on Thursday introduced a sub-$400, low-power business desktop that runs on an Advanced Micro Devices processor. The ThinkCentre A62 uses less electricity than its predecessor due to the efficiency of the Athlon 2650e, AMD's 15w CPU, Lenovo said. The desktop is also rated Energy Star 4.0, which is an international standard for energy-efficient computer products. Specifically for business,

Ciao operates in seven European languages and countries, and recently launched a beta site aimed at the U.S. market. By Paul McDougall InformationWeek Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT ) said Friday that it has reached a deal to acquire Greenfield Online, operator of the Ciao shopping and price comparison sites, for $486 million.

A competitor to Apple's App Store, the Android Market will allow users to browse, purchase, install, and rate applications on Android handsets. By Marin Perez InformationWeek With the rollout of handsets featuring Google's Android mobile operating system just around the corner , the company unveiled early details on its competitor to Apple's App Store.

The Japanese auto giant has slashed its sales estimate for 2009 by 7%, but demand for green models will ease the pain Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe Getty Images It's a sign of how tough times are for the world's automakers when even Toyota (TM), the world's most profitable automaker and soon to be the biggest, has to slash sales forecasts. In Tokyo on Aug. 28, Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe said the company now expects to sell 9.7 million vehicles in 2009, down from a previous figure of 10.4 million. The news should come as no surprise, given high gasoline prices, rising

Students Will Help Save Apple The tech company may look vulnerable to an economic downturn, but back-to-school shoppers should help it keep up a strong financial performance by Arik Hesseldahl SPECIAL REPORT Take a look around and it's hard not to get depressed by all the negative economic news. Home prices keep sliding. Credit is drying up. Inflation fears are on the rise. And consumer confidence is lower than it's been since the early 1990s. You would think all of this would eat into the business at Apple (AAPL). The company's computers tend to be pricier than those from Dell (DELL)

Cell Phones Powered by Everyday Activity Developing nations could benefit from cheap mobile-phone technology that would let people's physical movements charge up their handsets by Katie Fehrenbacher Related

India's poor urged to 'eat rats' By Amarnath Tewary BBC News, Patna An official in the Indian state of Bihar has come up with a new idea to encourage low caste poor people to cope with food shortages - rat meat. The Principal Secretary of the state's Welfare Department, Vijay Prakash, said that he was advancing his proposal after "much survey and ground work". Bihar's extremely poor Musahar community are rat-eaters by tradition. The

China, the world's fastest growing economy, has earned another startling superlative: the highest annual incidence of premature deaths triggered by air pollution in the world, according to a new study. A World Health Organization (WHO) report estimates that diseases triggered by indoor and outdoor air pollution kill 656,000 Chinese citizens each year, and polluted drinking water kills another 95,600. (Related: "China's Pollution Leaving Mountains High and Dry, Study Finds" [March 8, 2007].) "Air pollution is estimated to cause approximately two million premature deaths worldwide

Author: Michael KassnerFor all intents and purposes most everyone including the GSMA—an organization representing most of the mobile phone operators—considered and still considers GSM very secure. In reality A5/1, the technology used to encrypt GSM communications has been vulnerable for at least a decade. The sense of security seems to be based on the fact that the original attack venues require a great deal of computing power, time, and therefore money to accomplish the crack. So an organization would have to be particularly motivated to even want to crack GSM traffic. Care to guess who