"I'm definitely interested in making a career change, " said Kirsten Nordine, a 32-year-old product manager at a technology start-up who is taking Mr. Medford's class.

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"We're certainly looking at WAP and find it very interesting, but we don't have any imminent plans" to use the technology, Tammy Medanich, product marketing manager with 3Com's Palm Computing division, said in a recent interview.

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"Panasonic is committed to the best in-home entertainment and this year's Blu-ray Players are at the forefront of design, performance and green technology, " said Alex Fried, Product Manager, Panasonic Consumer Marketing Company of North America.

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"We regularly identify apps that our owners rely on as part of their everyday life, and adapt them for an in-vehicle experience they'll find safe, useful and engaging, " said Phil Johnston, Product Manager for the BMW Group Apps Platform from the BMW Group Technology Office.

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Visitors went to consumers' homes--and even peered into refrigerators and closets--to get insights into their interests in music, technology and fitness, says Dean Stoneley, Fusion's former product marketing manager.

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Khoi Nguyen, a group product manager for security provider Symantec, said that in a world of sophisticated online technology, smartphone users are most likely to fall prey to a more basic attack -- old-fashioned theft.

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"Oriental Motor makes this information available to distributors via the Web so they all can access the same information, " says Peter Mooney, product manager for ThomasNet, a Manhattan-based shop that sells e-commerce technology to industrial companies.

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T-Mobile, the G-Slate's exclusive carrier, believes that it's still "early days" for 3-D technology and that issues will be solved over time with new devices, said Desmond Smith, a senior product manager for the company.

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