Given that we're just days away from seeing what's apt to be a flood of these things at CES, Intel's new Ultrabook portal (and linked "Ultra Excited For Ultrabooks" preview paper) is priming the masses for what to expect.

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The results really caught my attention because the survey highlights the issues of fees at a time when clients are apt to be a little testy when their next statements come and their account valuations are down.

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Norway already requires that financial services firms record calls and Spain is apt to be next in Europe, while Switzerland and Singapore are looking at introducing mobile recording regulation.

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Folks at Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, and other major organizations are just as apt to fall victim to the intricacies of what needs to be disclosed and when as their counterparts at smaller shops.

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Online education will allow universities to do that even better: for one, they will provide a way for the best teachers to be recognized and promoted for something other than just research, a long time concern in the APT process at research universities.

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To be fair, any comparison between PCs and toys you'd buy at the mall is not quite apt.

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In fact, Qatar may prove to be an unusually apt host for U.N. climate talks, since it offers delegates an up-close look at the problems underlying climate change.

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