Word: cheaping
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...makers - all these guys suddenly have the same underlying technology," says Jones. Already, low-cost Asian manufacturers are getting in on high-end fare, like color screens. For the operators, the question is whether the market can grow fast enough to get the data (as opposed to the relatively cheap voice) business up to their targets of around 25% of revenues by 2005 or 2006. (Even with the mass success of text messaging at 15? a pop, most get just 10% to 15% of sales from data.) This may prove harder than they hope; at the moment, a camera-ready...
...provided little support to those moderate voices inside Saudi Arabia, largely to avoid doing anything that would undermine the regime and disrupt the world's energy market. But that's no longer good enough. As Sept. 11 showed, the security of the U.S. depends on more than cheap...
...market will come back eventually. But that has a way of taking years, even without a crisis of ethical confidence. Stocks didn't return to their 1929 levels until 1940; they took 30 years, till 1996, to return to the peak reached in 1966. Many stocks still aren't cheap, third quarters are often painful, and the bears, at least, think there's more bad news to come...
...percent auto financing has returned, as Detroit seeks to boost sagging sales. The free-money deals from Ford and General Motors on select 2002 models are a boon for consumers, saving them thousands of dollars in interest. Unfortunately, not all consumers can participate. To qualify for free or even cheap financing, you need a credit history that's close to pristine...
...espionage game once spawned plenty of cool spy gear, like poison-tipped umbrellas and recording devices disguised as ballpoint pens. But it's all getting so low-rent. Corporate spies are now using ordinary cell phones as cheap eavesdropping devices. Phones switched to idle and silent mode and set to answer calls automatically can be "accidentally" left behind in an office?when a spook excuses himself from a meeting to use the bathroom, for example?and activated remotely from another handset, allowing the user to listen in without the occupants' knowledge. The scam is more cunning than it sounds...