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...Likewise, in his core business of manufacturing LCDs, Machida is playing to Sharp's technological strengths instead of diversifying into areas where it's doomed to defeat. Taking on Goliaths like LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics across every LCD product line would be suicide, he says. They're dominant, for example, in mass-market LCD panels used in smaller, cheaper TVs and in laptops. Rather than engage them in a murderous price war, Sharp concentrates almost exclusively on ever-larger TVs or on small, high-quality panels found in cell phones, car navigation systems, and hand-held game players like...
...firm in Kyoto, says the real test is how Sharp's big-screen TVs ultimately fare against a technology called plasma display panel (PDP), currently the dominant type of large-screen, flat-panel displays. Sharp may have better technology, but Masuda wonders whether it can reduce costs enough to defeat the makers of PDP sets, which are significantly cheaper. "There is a real price battle going on," says Masuda, as Sharp jockeys for position. Sharp executives downplay such claims, saying the market is big enough for sellers of both types of large-screen TVs to prosper. "That is the benefit...
...couple of bases-loaded hits by the Big Green doomed Harvard and the offense it displayed against Columbia the day before was notably absent in game one as it suffered a sound 9-2 defeat...
...Hundreds of thousands of returning pows were sent straight to the Gulag for the crime of being captured by the Germans. There's another kind of ambivalence about V-E day in those states that were once part of the Soviet Union or the Warsaw Pact; many viewed the defeat of Nazism as simply a change of occupier. "We cannot pretend that May 9 was a day of liberty and independence for Poland," said Donald Tusk, leader of Poland's center-right Platforma Obywatelska. "For Poland the fight against Hitlerism and communism ended only in 1989." Rather than...
Harvard was outscored by 15 runs—its worse defeat since last March, when the team lost to Texas Tech 30-8—in falling to the Rams at Bill Beck Field in Kingston...