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...Goliath tale by Britain's press, Potter's duel with Gates may well have a surprise ending. A South African-born physicist with a flair for brilliant chess moves, Potter last month finished stitching together an ingenious alliance with three of the world's telecommunications heavyweights: Sweden's Ericsson, Finland's Nokia and Motorola of the U.S. The three firms account for 70% of global sales of mobile telephones and have the kind of financial muscle to make even Bill Gates sit up and take notice...
...look at how these devices may eventually be used, Finland offers some interesting insights. At the Helsinki airport, a Coke vending machine has a mobile number instead of a coin slot--dial up the machine and a Coke drops out, with the charge appearing on your phone bill. There's also a Helsinki car wash you can operate without leaving your car: dial...
Maddeningly, Netscape and Microsoft were slow to fix the problem, which was discovered on June 23 by Ari Takanen and Marko Laakso, researchers at the University of Oulu in Finland. The pair immediately reported it to Netscape and Microsoft. Failing to get a timely response, they turned to NTBugtraq, an influential Net-based mailing list that tracks PC-security issues, and quietly reached some Microsoft techies. Ed Muth, who oversees security issues for Microsoft, says he's checking to see whether the company's response was tardy. Muth, by the way, disputes my thesis that fevered competition is causing half...
...question always posed a dilemma. I grew up in Germany, Finland and India and immigrated to the United States eight years ago. English is my fourth language...
...this produced some memorable players. Look around. There's Lenin arriving at the Finland Station and Gandhi marching to the sea to make salt. Winston Churchill with his cigar, Louis Armstrong with his horn, Charlie Chaplin with his cane. Rosa Parks staying seated on her bus and a kid standing in front of a tank near Tiananmen Square. Einstein is in his study, and the Beatles are on The Ed Sullivan Show...