But unfortunately this is just one skirmish in the numerous smartphone patent wars among tech companies.

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Among consumer web startups and high-tech firms, the talent wars have taken on a new ferocity, yet unemployment remains stuck around 9% and shows few signs of improving.

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Meanwhile continued privacy concerns dog Apple (and numerous other tech companies) and the persistence of the patent wars leaves lots of room for doubt about the future of Apple and its competitors.

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If you want to know who will make and who will lose money in the convergence wars now besetting media, entertainment and tech, then I invite you to sign up for: MEET 2006, a FORBES conference to be held Oct. 24 and 25 at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

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Talent wars on the startup-centric coasts have left tech-savvy employees in high-demand, yet the unemployment rate remains dismally high, even in those areas.

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Benjamin Ensor, research director at tech specialists Forrester Research, said we were seeing the emergence of "digital-wallet wars" as telecoms, banking services and technology companies all sought to carve out a share of the nascent market.

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Modern wars are often fought in urban settings, and modern troops deploy all sorts of high-tech weaponry.

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