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Dell plans ad makeover to shed low-price image. Dell is getting a
marketing makeover, trying to shed its image as a cheaper alternative
to rivals including the sleek and highly popular gadgets sold by Apple.
The world’s No. 2 PC maker said Wednesday it will spend “hundreds and
hundreds of millions” on an advertising campaign for its consumer
business to coincide with the launch of new products, including laptops
with JBL speakers. http://reut.rs/apUvCu

Web users to pass 2 billion by end of year. According to a United Nations report released Tuesday, the number of people worldwide with access to the Internet has doubled within the past five years and is expected to surpass 2 billion by the end of 2010. The report comes from the International Telecommunication Union, the Geneva-based telecommunications division of the U.N., and predicts that 71 percent of people in industrialized countries will have Internet access in 2010, with 65 percent of people in these countries going online at home. http://apne.ws/9OnH3U

Flashback: What did Steve Jobs’s business card look like in 1979? Like this: http://bit.ly/bCS9i2.

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“I’m here to stay. Do I look like a wimp?” — Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz on commentary that she should be fired. http://bit.ly/9yYs4b.

“Oopsie”: A spokeswoman for California Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman inadvertently tweeted a link to a video of man in drag playing bass guitar on Monday. When contacted for comment, spokesperson Sarah Pompei offered this one-word response: “Oopsie.” http://bit.ly/9FQbuO