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Anyone who bet on the perpetually recycled promise that the Internet was about to find a new home on the displays of mobile phones is probably broke by now. Although beset by bad marketing and uncertain demand, the mobile Internet's fundamental problem has been that the tiny phone screen is a lousy way to absorb information from the Net. Stop me if you've heard this one before, but that may be about to change. Opera, the tiny Norwegian upstart whose PC browser has in the last 18 months lured some 12 million customers away from products like Microsoft...
...loss to Northeastern was a serious blow to the team’s chances of making the NCAA tournament at-large. As the rankings stand right now, Harvard won’t get another chance to prove itself against a top-10 team. The Crimson’s surest bet to NCAAs remains winning the Ivies, and Harvard will have to top Cornell to realistically keep that hope alive...
...only thing going through my head was, ‘This dude messed with the wrong cowboy,’” Blewett recalled. “When he was sitting at his typewriter, I bet he had no idea he was messing with a guy who hasn’t lost an arm-wrestling match since the fall of fourth grade...
...tank, says Beijing may have been forced to act quickly before Yang's untidy affairs made him an international diplomatic problem. So what happens now? Wang Huizhong, a colleague of Yang's in the Sinuiju project office, insists everything "is still proceeding as planned." But it's a fair bet that the flower king's brief reign as chief of North Korea's special economic zone is coming...
...bet on it, I’d say I’m going to play,” Rose says. “The question is, ‘Will they...