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...mobile browser wars rage on, billions of euros are at stake, and anxious mobile-phone operators are coveting data services, a crucial new source of revenue as voice revenues decline. "These are steps in the right direction toward mobile devices becoming a good window onto the Web," says Ross Bott, a venture capitalist at Silicon Valley-based Redpoint Ventures. Of course, we've heard that song before. The fact is that about 70% of cell phones sold worldwide in 2002 are capable of surfing the Net through wireless application protocol (WAP) browsers. But almost no one does, because WAP proved...
...some of the seminal ideas in the nature of quantum mechanics and relativity," said Raoul Bott, Graustein professor of mathematics and former master of Dunster House...
...physical embodiment of a painful mental state, which Muggles call depression, and it demonstrates Rowling's considerable emotional range. She can be both genuinely scary and consistently funny, adept at both broad slapstick and allusive puns and wordplay. She appeals to the peanut gallery with such items as Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, a wizard candy that means what it says on its package; it offers every flavor, ranging from chocolate and peppermint to liver and tripe and earwax. But Rowling also names the Hogwarts caretaker Argus Filch, evidently hoping that a few adult readers will remember that Argus...
Besides mathematics, Bott, a former Dunster House Master, also loves playing the piano and has studied at the Longy School of Music. He commutes to Harvard by bicycle each...
With information from "Autobiographical Sketches & Autobiographical Fragments" by Raoul Bott...