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About a month ago, Ben & Jerry’s broke devastating news to ice cream lovers everywhere. The franchise’s chocolate chip ice cream, favorite of grandmothers and college students alike, has kicked the bucket...
Chocolate chip ice cream addicts may choose to seek “Chocolate Therapy” instead—a mix of chocolate ice cream, pudding, and cookies which is replacing the simpler flavor of yesteryear. B&J’s claims that it will provide therapy for any “discombobulated state” into which it may have inadvertently thown consumers...
Though the Ben & Jerry’s in Harvard Square has previously dealt with customers angry over the cancellation of flavors such as Bovinity Divinity and One Sweet Whirled, scoopers say they have encountered only a few Harvard students missing chocolate chip scoops this year. “Maybe I’d be more upset if I didn’t have to spend a fraction of my college tuition to pay for it,” says Matthew R. Schindel...
...Otellini's "platformization" still has to prove itself in areas other than Centrino. Later this year Intel will announce an as-yet-unbranded platform for desktop computers (dubbed Desktrino by company insiders) that takes advantage of Intel's dual-core technology. Dual-core puts two brains on the same chip, which makes it easier to run multiple applications at the same time. But Desktrino may be outmoded before it is born. IBM, Sony and Toshiba took a surprise lead recently when they announced production of their Cell processor, which has eight brains to Desktrino...
Doomsday predictions, of course, have surrounded Intel for years: that the PC market is maturing, that the competition is cutting into Intel's lead. Yet the company has managed to keep growing. Despite AMD's recent resurgence, Intel's position in the PC-chip business remains unchallenged, with a market share of nearly 90%. It is also a step ahead thanks to Barrett's farsighted investments in manufacturing. While AMD has one major semiconductor plant, Intel has four placed strategically around the world, churning out chips 24 hours a day. And unlike PC manufacturers and retailers, who have to deal...