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...Bluetooth has failed to live up to its hype. Analysts and industry experts have repeatedly rolled back projections, blaming the global economic slowdown, high costs, and glitches in actually making the thing work. Yet industry insiders say there is another, quieter reason that Bluetooth is not yet a household word: the mobile-phone industry is resisting Bluetooth because the technology inadvertently could end up saving consumers a lot of money and cutting into mobile network profits. How? Software called cordless telephony profile (ctp) allows business users and consumers to use Bluetooth-equipped cell phones to connect directly to the fixed...
Where Are They Now? Ever wonder--maybe when you look at your 401(k)--what has become of those dotcommers who were household names during the tech boom...
Ford grew up in a disciplined household, with a set time for homework and an early bedtime. The civil-rights views of his father Kent greatly influenced him. Ford is proud of being named after Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese independence hero, though he eventually chose to be known as just Lumumba--because, says his half-sister Cindy Fontenot, "Patrice sounded girlish to him." Says Fontenot, 34, a human-resources professional: "He was always very mature, someone to lean on because he was so strong but very sensitive...
Domestic bliss has fled the household of Seiku Murmu and his wife Monica Besra--and it's all Mother Teresa's fault. Monica is a celebrity in the small village of Dangram, 460 miles northeast of Calcutta, because she is the beneficiary of what many Catholics believe is the first posthumous miracle of Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity. On Sept. 5, 1998, the first anniversary of the nun's death, Monica was suffering abdominal pain caused, she believed, by a tumor. But the purported tumor vanished when Monica applied a medallion with an image of the late...
Domestic bliss has fled the household of Seiku Murmu and his wife Monica Besra?and it's all Mother Teresa's fault. Monica is a celebrity in the small village of Dangram, 460 miles northeast of Calcutta, because she is the beneficiary of what many Catholics believe is the first posthumous miracle of Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity. On Sept. 5, 1998, the first anniversary of the nun's death, Monica was suffering abdominal pain caused, she believed, by a tumor. But the purported tumor vanished when Monica applied a medallion with an image of the late...