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Where in the World are Your Analytics?
November 5 at 2 p.m. ET
How can combining analytics and geography give your data relevance? Attend this event to find out more on mapping and geoanalytics.

2009 Joint SIGDSS and Teradata University Network workshop and congress
December 15, 2009, Phoenix, Arizona
The 2009 Business Intelligence Congress provides a first-of-its-kind collaborative opportunity! Join academic professionals and industry representatives who share a common passion for research and education innovation in the field of business intelligence.

HICSS-43 Conference
January 5-8, 2010, Hawaii
HICSS-43 offers a unique, highly interactive and professionally challenging environment that attendees find "very helpful -- lots of different perspectives and ideas as a result of discussion."

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IBM unveils new technology to help governments improve services for citizens.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled a new software platform designed to fundamentally change the way that local, state and national governments manage and deliver services to the public.

Orange signs strategic pan-European mobile partnership with Google.
Orange today announces an industry-first as it becomes the first operator to partner with Google(TM)[1] to bring Google Mobile App(TM) to mobile customers in Europe. The multi-year strategic agreement, combining the best in content and search innovation from both partners, is making mobile search and geo-location services even more accessible by giving customers one-click access to Google Mobile App via the Orange homescreen. The application provides enhanced search features and access to the Orange mobile portal and other familiar Google products and services.

Hello humans: DROID by Motorola arrives next week.
High-speed Web browsing, voice-activated search, customizable large screen, access to thousands of Android applications and hundreds of widgets and the best 3G mobile network in the country: DROID by Motorola arrives on Nov. 6.

BeyeNETWORK announces Business Intelligence Trends newsletter.
The BeyeNETWORK's Business and Data Integration Newsletter has been renamed as the Business Intelligence Trends Newsletter. Two of the industry’s most highly regarded experts – Claudia Imhoff and Colin White –are co-anchoring this newsletter that will focus on the latest trends that are impacting the way organizations effectively choose and use the wide variety of available technologies to gain the best possible return on their investments. Understanding the choices and the consequences of the choices made is not easy; and through the newsletter articles, Claudia and Colin will clearly explain the impact, benefits and challenges of current trends so that organizations are armed with the information they need to make the best choices.

IBM unveils new offerings to help clients better manage content with analytics.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new business analytics offerings designed to help clients better manage and control their unstructured and structured data in a unified manner, while providing valuable insight into their content across the enterprise. The volume of unstructured data found on Web sites and social networking sites, in digital files, WebSphere Portal, Microsoft SharePoint, databases and customer comments, is increasing exponentially.