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...past few weeks, I've been wondering who is winning the video cell-phone battle between Sprint and Verizon Wireless. Which one serves up better content? The last time I tested services, Sprint had not yet introduced its EV-DO network, and the new Power Vision service that runs on that network. Now that it has, and now that both carriers have video downloads as well as full-fledged music stores, I grabbed an LG VX8100 V Cast phone from Verizon and the sweet, slender Samsung a900 Power Vision phone from Sprint, and set out to pick a winner...
...Sprint takes the cable TV approach, packing in a dizzying number of channels. If you pay $25 per month (in addition to your voice plan) for the Power Vision Ultimate Pack, you get an abundance of content from NBC, Fox News, Fox Sports, ESPN, The Weather Channel and Discovery Channel...
...Verizon Wireless launched V Cast a year ago with a $15 per month price tag. It hasn't raised the price, though it has increased the amount of content available. There may not be live programming, but there's constantly refreshed content from some big names that Sprint doesn't yet have. CBS and the whole Viacom stable - Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, VH1 - as well as Nascar.com and Accuweather.com. Speaking of the weather, Verizon's local coverage is not very good: Although it has both Accuweather and the Weather Channel, between them the the two only cover 21 cities...
...WORKERS CONTINUE TO MAKE $65 AN HOUR WHEN THE CHINESE ARE DOING IT FOR $2 AN HOUR? There's an opportunity in this country for high-value, high-intellectual-content work to be done. I think of things like hybrids and the next generation of hybrid systems and transmissions. But there's no question that for other parts of the work stream, it's going to become much more difficult to be a player in this country...
...ugliness. We could be the generation that ends pervasive hunger, that wipes out HIV/AIDS, that finally levels the educational playing field for tomorrow’s youth. Yet no such dreams are even imaginable if we, resigned to the world as it is, are content to merely enter into the system rather than place ourselves in a position to change it. Harvard does such a good job during our four years here to cultivate a certain restlessness, an insatiable longing to join the “real world” of Wall Street or to have a guaranteed, positive influence...