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...carriers are very concerned that messaging isn't generating the revenue it has in the past," remarks IDC analyst Richard Murphy. "Consumers are becoming more savvy, buying just the buckets they need. Many are signing up for unlimited plans, which will only drive down revenues more...
...Shareholders sued Mattel over the Learning Company deal, naming O'Leary and Perik, along with other members of the toy company's management, as defendants. In the complaint, the shareholders alleged that under O'Leary and Perik the Learning Company used "accounting manipulations" to gain market share and drive up the company's stock price. According to the suit, a sales manager at the Learning Company at the time of the Mattel merger told employees that he "suspected the 'Learning Company is broke' and is 'cooking the books.' " Mattel paid shareholders $122 million to settle the suit. O'Leary...
...years ago - she was eight or seven - said, you've got to get a hybrid because this is polluting the air and killing polar bears. And you really start seeing, I think, a level of awareness about how decisions you make, about where you shop or what car you drive has an impact on the broader world. And so I think it's a positive thing...
...what they buy, what they purchase, and the kind of choices, the consumer choices that they make. The President: Well, as I said, the - I do think that young people - this next generation is much more aware of the consequences of what they buy, what they use, what they drive. And that's a wonderful thing. And our - all our individual choices, when you aggregate them, end up having a huge effect. And I think that this generation understands that more than our generation did and our parents' generation...
Modern science already offers ways to enhance your mood, sex drive, athletic performance, concentration levels and overall health. But is such medically driven self-improvement always a good idea? Nick Bostrom, the director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, believes it's time to open the ethical debate surrounding human enhancement - a term that is growing to include genetic, pharmaceutical and technological ways to improve our physical and mental abilities and even dramatically extend human life. He recently edited a collection of essays on the subject, Human Enhancement, and in an e-mail exchange explained...