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...Human Genome Project, by contrast, publishes its results on the Web, free to all comers. One of its biggest users, it turns out, is Celera. Of the 90% represented in Venter's rough draft, only 81% was sequenced by Celera's robots. The rest was taken from the public website...
...message I want to read to the end. And the cradle that plugs into my PC and allows me to synchronize it with Microsoft Outlook, Scheduler+ and Lotus Organizer--if I used any of those programs--doubles as a recharger, which is included in eLink's $359 price. (By contrast, the Blackberry costs $399, and you don't get a recharger...
Actually, I have the answers right now. But first, a few disclosures are necessary. Readers have the right to know that TIME magazine will be part of AOL Time Warner. The author of this essay, by contrast, has a day job as editor of Slate, an online magazine published by Microsoft. Microsoft owns an online service, msn, that competes with AOL. Microsoft and AOL Time Warner will have competing investments in the cable industry. On yet another hand, Microsoft and Time Warner are co-investors in a high-speed cable-Internet connection business called Roadrunner. On a fourth hand, Microsoft...
...Procter & Gamble. A project might cost at least $25,000 and take months to complete. Conventional research firms like Market Facts go through a process that typically involves research design, approval from layers of management, the creation of a survey, selection of a sample population and analysis. By contrast, an InsightExpress survey costs only about $1,000 and takes just a few days. The service provides its clients with survey templates on which to build an online questionnaire; they can choose respondents from 25 demographic groups, decide on a sample size and price, and pay by credit card. InsightExpress then...
...expansion of China's relationship with Washington has been based less on nuclear weapons than on investment opportunities. Even though its culture and political system remain closed, China's economy has been open to the West for a quarter century. India, in contrast, made wary by the experience of centuries of exploitation by the British, has for the most part kept the doors to its economy firmly closed...