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...Still, hybrid phone-music players are expected to gain widespread acceptance. According to Strategy Analytics, within five years, more than half of all mobile phones sold will be able to play digital music. "I wouldn't quite say music on mobile phones is shaping up to be a killer application, but I would say it's a manslaughter app," says Neil Mawston, an analyst for Strategy Analytics. Need further validation? Motorola, the world's second-largest cell-phone maker, recently announced it will include Apple's iTunes software on its next series of phones...
...Seoul insists its scientists were not conducting weapons research and that it has fully disclosed its activities. But there is nagging evidence that the country has for decades periodically carried out clandestine experiments to gain know-how that would allow it to quickly develop atomic weapons, specifically through the production of plutonium and enrichment of uranium. (Much of the controversy surrounding Iran's nuclear program concerns efforts to enrich uranium.) Although those radioactive elements can be found in peaceful nuclear programs (with 19 reactors supplying 40% of its electricity, South Korea relies heavily on nuclear power), Seoul agreed...
...global consolidation in the industry. Last week, in a complicated $17.8 billion deal, Indian entrepreneur Lakshmi Mittal said he would merge his existing steel assets - the privately-held LNM Holdings and the publicly-traded Ispat International - with the U.S.-based International Steel Group (ISG). The deal, which must still gain regulatory approval, would create the world's biggest steel company, Mittal Steel, to be based in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and help Mittal pursue his modest goal of making Mittal as synonymous with steel as Ford is with the motor car. The new company could produce...
...Lesbian feminists in San Francisco, including writer Pat Califia, found Samois, an organization that garners national attention for its sexually explicit manual on BDSM. Samois becomes the torchbearer for a number of BDSM organizations that gain popularity in the 1970s...
...Pain, No Gain...