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...this chart shows, the severe drop-off in demand has been punishing. But with technology advancing - and computers aging - the seeds for a replacement cycle are in place. Morgan Stanley's analysts expect the up cycle to start in the consumer segment of the market in the final quarter of 2009, then move on to small-business buyers and finally big corporate buyers in the second half...
Maybe so. But this will be a different kind of recovery for tech companies. One reason is that a key driver of demand in the next 18 months will be smaller and smaller computers. The growing popularity of netbooks - laptops that can easily fit in a briefcase or handbag and offer basic computing tasks, such as Web browsing - are the prime case in point. Netbooks are cheap, and with new, high-efficiency processors on the scene, they will likely get more powerful, and cheaper still. So while unit volume is improving for tech companies, the actual revenue they bring...
...Israeli Prime Minister, alienating a U.S. President is almost always bad politics, but it's particularly bad politics when you need his help to stop what you've called an existential threat. If Israelis decide Netanyahu can't negotiate with the U.S. effectively over Iran, they may demand that he be replaced with someone...
With that, Bernstein became an in-demand speaker, an industry wise man (one writer likened him to Yoda) and the foremost interpreter of the quantitative approach that came to dominate Wall Street. But he was never doctrinaire. When I sought his blessing for a book on the fall of the market philosophy whose rise he had sketched in Capital Ideas, he was enthusiastic--and even contributed a blurb for the back cover. When he died on June 5 at age 90, he was working on another book about risk. When that was done, he planned to finally get to work...
...building outrage toward state television can also be traced to the demand last week by Mohammad Reza Shajjarian, Iran's beloved and foremost classical musician, that state TV and radio cease broadcasting his songs. Shajjarian's anthems helped galvanize the Islamic revolution of 1979 and retain today their evocative and emotional pull. "I emphatically asked IRIB not to broadcast my voice, because this is the voice of the dirt and dust and will always remain so," he said in an interview with the BBC, referring to the denigrating term "dirt and dust" with which Ahmadinejad has labeled the protesters...