Word: digitalizes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...make phones as cool as the Razr, there's little doubt they will produce them faster and more cheaply. Motorola's stock is up 58% since Zander took over as CEO, but it has been hovering around $20 for the past four months, despite seven straight quarters of double-digit revenue growth. The fear, as Merrill Lynch analyst Tal Liani explains it, is that despite the Razr's success, "in the long run, the company will face commoditization pressure...
...someone proposed injecting a computer chip in your arm and said it could save your life, would you do it? As Orwellian as it sounds, VeriChip is betting this will be a billion-dollar business. The firm's parent company, Applied Digital Solutions, won FDA approval last year for what it bills as the "world's first human implantable microchip." A radio-frequency identification (RFID) transponder the size of a grain of rice, the VeriChip contains a 16-digit personal ID number that can be scanned like a bar code, providing health-care workers access to your medical records online...
Economists Lise Vesterlund of the University of Pittsburgh and Muriel Niederle of Stanford University conducted a study in which they assembled 40 men and 40 women, gave them five minutes to add up as many two-digit numbers as they could, and paid them 50˘ for each correct answer. The subjects were not competing against one another but simply playing against the house. Later, the game was changed to a tournament in which the subjects were divided into teams of two men or two women each. Winning teams got $2 per computation; losers got nothing. Men and women performed equally...
...shootout loss to Northwestern away from being undefeated and a top five team. The Nittany Lions, for their part, are one last-second Wolverines touchdown away from being in the same spot.These two teams are so similar that it’s strange to see a double-digit spread. Take the points in this one.Final Score: Penn State 24, Wisconsin 21Michigan State (-5.5) at PurdueThis spread is completely screwed up.The Spartans have the best offense in the nation, and the Boilermakers have one of the nation’s worst. Purdue has lost six-straight games...
...moments, but we were really inconsistent.”The Crimson nursed a narrow lead throughout much of the first frame, until the Bears tied it up at 11 thanks to a kill from Brown middle hitter Julie Mandolini-Trummel, one of five Bears with double digit kills.But the Crimson came back fighting with three straight kills, sending it on its way to 17 kills on .220 hitting for the frame.Blotky helped the cause with seven of her game-high 21 digs.“All week in practice, [Blotky] definitely stepped it up,” Cebron said...