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...prodding consumers and businesses to make cheap Internet-based VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) phone calls through the Cloud's hot spots. VOIP has already eaten into the traditional fixed-line business. It's now poised to do the same thing to mobile operators, threatening to take a chunk of what London research firm Informa Telecoms & Media says will be a $550 billion mobile-voice business by 2010. Polk volleyed in July, when he partnered with VOIP champion Skype (now part of eBay) to allow Skype software users to call anywhere from hot spots through headset-equipped laptops. If just...
Being Harvard’s favorite DJ is not really a full-time job, however. Zornow’s math work, although not as important to him as it once was, takes up a large chunk of his time. And he still practices juggling and scratching...
...huge chunk of the market is still up for grabs: namely, the 40 million-plus homes using dial-up to connect. For some of these users, a 56K modem is plenty. But budding BPL providers are betting that a significant number of consumers really do want broadband service but are simply holding out for a better offer...
...allure that a magic wand of youth can be waved at home has made consumer-products giants like Procter & Gamble (P&G) and Johnson & Johnson (J&J) snap to attention. After all, these devices have the potential to snare a sizable chunk of the estimated $24 billion that Americans spend to rejuvenate their faces and remove unwanted hair. Seeing synergies with its Neutrogena brand, J&J jumped into self-dermatology in 2004, signing an exploratory multiyear licensing deal with the $120 million company Palomar Medical Technologies to develop, test and commercialize light-based aesthetic devices that can treat wrinkles, cellulite...
...first quarter: A nice Sandberg run gains a big chunk and gives Penn a first down at Harvard's 36-yard line. Remember all those third down stops the Crimson had early in the year? It'd be nice to get one on this drive...