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The Apple expo in Paris, France is scheduled to run September 26-30 at the Porte de Versailles venue. No further details are available, but this is Apple’s only European showcase, notes a brief report on MacUser UK.

…Not too well according to Stephen Baker, technology columnist for BusinessWeek’s Paris bureau. Baker examines some of the advances we have already seen in portable wireless technology and notes that the best is yet to come. The question is where does Apple stand in all of this? Baker uses an iMac — he wrote his column on one — but doesn’t think Apple is doing enough to advance their product offering into this space. “My suggestion? Apple should team up with Motorola. Apple has the brand and knows computers. Motorola does phones.

Michael Mechanic, writing for TheStandard.com, poses some interesting observations on the innovation — or lack thereof — computers have seen over the past 20 years. “You’d think that would have taught the nascent industry a crucial lesson: Innovate or die,” Mechanic notes. “A handful of computer companies — most notably, Apple — followed that advice.”

Intel will be unveiling details of their new computer chip for wireless devices at the company’s technology conference in Amsterdam later today. The new chip reportedly combines memory, processing and communications abilities into one unit — a process normally handled by three different chips, according to a Fox News report.