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...Barghouti a serious candidate, or has he simply thrown his hat in the ring as a bargaining chip to win his release? People close to Barghouti tell TIME he decided at the last minute to renege on a deal not to run, dismayed at failing to win promises from Abbas to nominate people from Barghouti's camp for top jobs in a new administration and to push Israel for his release. A senior U.S. State Department official tells TIME he believes that Barghouti wants to leverage his threat of running for his own interests. Since Abbas controls the apparatus...
...baking, the results were mixed. Cakes made with substitutes didn't rise quite as high as cakes made with sugar, but the taste was good, and the substitutes whipped up into frosting just fine. (There was no discernible difference between the Equal and Splenda products.) Chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies were less brown and slightly more crumbly when baked with either substitute than when sugar was used. The taste was authentic, but the Equal and Splenda cookies left a very slight diet-soda-like aftertaste. It's not necessarily unpleasant, but a little startling coming from a cookie...
...Frontier Silicon, based in Watford, England, is also trying to expand what phones can do. Frontier is building a chip that allows a cell phone to double as a TV, so that a user could watch, say, sports highlights while waiting for a train. The chip, called Chorus, receives broadcast signals from television operators, digitally encoded so they can't be intercepted. That system is a threat to mobile operators, because broadcast signals bypass cellular networks. A phone owner could receive video programming without having to buy it from a mobile network provider...
...Frontier is providing the chip to Samsung, which is building it into a mobile device for the Korean market. Beginning in the first quarter of next year, several broadcasters, including the Korean Broadcasting System, will start airing programs tailored to it. "Within the next five years, the major new killer application on mobile phones will be the reception of digital TV and radio,'' says Frontier founder and chief executive Anthony Sethill. And there's more in store. Frontier is adding digital recording to a chip it makes for televisions, so that it acts like a personal video recorder...
...Israeli army in the early '90s as a wireless specialist. Today, he and other UWB proponents are honing a standard they hope will assure that all UWB devices communicate in the same way. Wisair is part of a large contingent backing one proposed standard, while Freescale, the chip company carved out of Motorola, backs another. The existence of competing standards means that market forecasts vary. Gartner analyst Stan Bruederle says the UWB market will hit a modest $400 million in 2008; San Diego research firm ON World predicts a $1 billion market by then. Yaish subscribes to the more bullish...