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...Motorola PowerPC Chip Intel rolled out its new Pentium chip, but Motorola stole the spotlight with its PowerPC microprocessor. Produced in partnership with IBM and Apple, the PowerPC could pose the first serious challenge to Intel's dominance of the $67.7 billion desktop market...
...retirement, you're on your own, baby, is surely a reason that President George Bush ran into so much opposition to his proposal to change Social Security from a risk-free plan into one with so-called private accounts. Critics of the 70-year-old system were determined to chip away at Social Security as part of a larger effort to promote what the Bush Administration calls an "ownership society." As Treasury Secretary John Snow told a congressional committee in February 2004: "I think we need to be concerned about pensions and the security that employees have in their pensions...
...move MP3s to the handset, you need a MiniSD card. A new kind of memory chip for small devices like phones, it's compatible with standard SD. Since it generally ships with an SD adapter, it will fit into any SD card slot you might have on your computer or printer. (If you don't have one, you can get a USB card reader for around $20.) In goes the card, and an icon pops up, under My Computer in Windows or right on the desktop in a Mac. Drag songs you want to hear to the icon, then slip...
...accident has occurred on the moon. Did Joe Chip survive it? In a world in which science and drugs blur the line between life and death, reality and hallucination, even he isn't sure. Dick spins the stuff of sci-fi into an existential nightmare you'll never be quite sure you've awakened from...
...blue chip to help deflect acquisition costs is Pernod Ricard's recent $120 million deal with SPI Group to extend its U.S. distribution rights for Stolichnaya--second to Absolut vodka in the U.S. and second globally--to the rest of the world. "Good for them," says New York City--based industry expert Steven Olson, whose clients include Diageo. "Owning a brand is one thing, but what are you owning? Distribution of Stoli will be far more profitable than owning Grey Goose [bought by Bacardi for $2 billion]. It's a much smarter move...