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...this the end of online gambling's lucky streak? A day after the arrest in a Dallas airport of David Carruthers, ceo of Internet gaming firm BETonSPORTS, authorities last week charged the 48-year-old, along with 10 others connected to the Costa Rica?based company, [an error occurred while processing this directive] with racketeering conspiracy relating to the illegal provision of sports betting in the U.S. Complying with a court order, the firm also suspended services to the U.S., home to 85% of its business. Shares in rival operators tumbled over fears of a U.S. crackdown on firms taking...
...piece with the careful way he introduces his many characters and lays out his plotlines in the movie's static beginning. There's obviously a compulsive component to his nature. But he more than rewards our patience when he finally flings himself into action. There is a very firm sense of screen geography when the guns start flashing, no careless frenzy in his staging, only a sort of deadly logic. It's a quality that's always in short supply when crime movies commence winding down. And it's worth waiting for in Miami Vice...
...businesses, which generate 80% of its sales. But the business market is becoming more commoditized, and prices are in a free fall. So everyday shoppers are powering the industry's growth. The consumer market grew at twice the pace of the enterprise market last year, according to technology-research firm IDC. Result: Dell's stock has plummeted 52% in the past year. The company's sales grew a lackluster (for Dell) 14%, to $56 billion, in fiscal year 2006. Last Friday, Dell stunned Wall Street by warning that its second quarter would be a dog, sending the stock down...
...does business. But last week's results signal that the days of exceeding growth predictions are probably over. Dell may be forced to grind it out like everyone else. "When you're that big, how do you keep growing like that?" asks Roger Kay, president of research firm Endpoint Technologies. "Dell has to reset Wall Street's expectations, but the computer industry is still seen as young. It's hard for a tech company to face Wall Street and say, 'Look, guys, this is who we are.'" It may be even harder when you've been No. 1 forever...
...something considered illegal by the U.S. Department of Justice, online gambling has done pretty well against stiff odds. U.S. wagerers last year poured around $5.4 billion into the kind of offshore Internet gaming sites that the DOJ has been struggling to bring to heel. As one British online gaming firm boasted in a recent Times Square billboard: "EVERYBODY BETS." That may well be true, but the Justice Department is out to show that the luck of longtime winners like Carruthers and his firm can change overnight...