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New York Knicks season-ticket holders flocking to Madison Square Garden this year will participate in a corporate giveaway that will be closely watched far beyond the NBA. Some 5,000 Knicks fans will get specially designed smartphone cases that will allow them to charge their iPhones wirelessly from 550 charging spots in the arena’s corporate suites and eighth-floor viewing area. Procter & Gamble (PG) and other companies underwriting the promotion hope it helps usher in an era in which people’s mobile devices become cord-free appendages. Although the consumer demand is potentially huge, wireless charging has been slow to take off. There are currently fewer than 10 million devices in circulation in the U.S. able to charge wirelessly, mostly phones and accessories, according to researcher IHS (IHS). But as the technology has improved, that’s changing. Global shipments of wirelessly charged devices are projected to rise from 5 million units this year to nearly 100 million by 2015, ...

In March 2009, Diane Carlini had a routine mammogram and got a preliminary diagnosis of breast cancer on the spot. She then underwent a gamut of tests including a painful biopsy and an MRI, followed by surgery to remove her tumor. Throughout the process, an unnerved Carlini tried to gauge the severity of her illness by reading the faces of doctors and parsing their less-than-precise takes on her condition. “With the mammogram, you could tell they weren’t completely sure what was going on,” she says. “And the same was true of the biopsy, where they could see some bad cells, but there was plenty of doubt.” The only real moment of clarity for Carlini, who handles public relations for the tax software maker Intuit (INTU), came about a month into the ordeal. That’s when her three-page report from Genomic Health (GHDX)arrived, providing a detailed analysis of the genetic makeup of her tumors and how likely they were to respond to chemotherapy and to recur. Carlini found out there was a ...

Google Chairman and former Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt would like to end speculation that he’s in the running for a Cabinet job in the second Obama administration. Schmidt’s name has been specifically raised in connection with an opening at the Department of Commerce since the resignation of Secretary John Bryson in June. But in a conversation at Google’s offices in Mountain View, Calif., Schmidt said that while he serves on the president’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, he is not interested in formally joining the administration. “How can I be clear?” said Schmidt, who has previously denied interest. “I have the same answer. I do not want to be a federal government employee. Google is my home.”

For the first time in years, one single handset model has reportedly outsold the iPhone. Strategy Analytics says that more Samsung Galaxy S III phones than Apple iPhone 4S handsets were sold in third quarter of this year. Samsung Electronics (005930) moved 18 million such handsets, while Apple (AAPL) sold 16.2 million during the three-month period, says the research firm. It should be noted that Samsung’s figures represent shipments, not actual sales, but there’s a bigger point to be made here: Samsung is currently the only company that can even come close to competing with Apple when it comes to smartphones. Before explaining why, here’s a closer look at the data. Apple’s figures represent actual sales, while Samsung’s numbers reflect the shipments of Galaxy S III handsets to carriers. That means if a carrier has an unsold Galaxy S III on the store shelf, it counts in this comparison. As a result, the Samsung figures of actual sales are lower than shipments. And if you were to count ...

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Microsoft held application development workshops at 110 locations globally Nov. 9 to teach developers how to write applications for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. SUNNYVALE, CALIF. – Microsoft invited software developers to come here and to 109 other locations worldwide on Nov. 9 to learn about how to develop applications for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 with the goals of building a richer software ecosystems for the new operating systems. A total of 13,500 developers were registered to attend the daylong Gen Appathon where they heard presentations by Microsoft staff and independent developers and received hands-on training on how to create apps. Developers then spent time creating apps, after which organizers judged which of them were the best. About 50 developers, who attended the Appathon at a Microsoft office here, represented an eclectic mix of applications ideas, including one app that teaches people how to play music to another designed to help fight jet lag. The hands-on tr...