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Greg Brown, Co-CEO of Motorola, likes to compare his company's recent performance to the Dickens classic A Tale of Two Cities. Yes, that's got to be the most clichéd literary reference in Western history, but Brown is not a wordsmith. He runs a gadget company. And that's the problem: Motorola was once renowned for manufacturing ultra-chic mobile phones. Yet since 2006, that business has been in free fall, and the company's overall revenue has dropped by half. The recession didn't help much. Keeping the $22 billion firm afloat were its less glamorous...
...spend some time with Jobs and his team. Fry is an unabashed fan of Apple, but we wanted him to get a sense of both how the Apple team works and Jobs' unique role in that process. Fry spoke to Jobs about his dreams for the iPad - and got some time to play with it. Lev Grossman, our technology writer, looked at the iPad as part of a historical continuum, noting that it's only the latest version in the long quest for a tablet computer. (See pictures of Steve Jobs' extraordinary career...
...celebration of his new book, Match Prints, it might sound odd, but I was happy for him. What a blessing that he could leave this world so peacefully, in peak form, with New York City about to toast him. I'm sure when Jimmy got to those pearly gates, he insisted on all access with no restrictions...
...winning team last year toted a climbing mat as a melee weapon before their guns arrived, and one agent got five kills by using a foam finger,†she said. “So yeah, it's the best game ever. Period...
...got our butts kicked,†Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. “They were a good-hitting ballclub today...