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...Research and development is somewhat of a misnomer in Japan," says Robert Lewis, former associate director of the Tsukuba Research Consortium, a hub of high-tech companies in central Japan. "Most of the money goes to improving an existing product, not to basic research." Even when an inventor comes up with a hot product, the country's strong ethic of subordination of individuals to groups holds sway. Take the case of Aki Komikado, an unassuming sales-and-marketing employee who invented the Tamagotchi digital pet in 1996. The toy craze earned her employer, Bandai, $350 million, but Komikado didn...
...kind of place where, when I left to go check out Burlington, Wolf and Saunders, 50 and 59, dropped some scones into a care package for my trip. Burlington has tougher challenges than Fort Madison. The much bigger, grittier downtown was built for the industrial railroad hub that Burlington once was, and big, boxy buildings sit vacant now. But just as in Fort Madison, there is something worth saving here, where neighborhoods sweep up gracefully from the banks of the Mississippi to form an amphitheater with terrific views of downtown and the bridge that spokes majestically across the river...
Currently, computers on the FAS network are connected through a series of "hubs." Under the hub system, data is broadcast en masse to all the computers on the network. Individual computers must then snag data that is intended for them...
...order to make the change to roaming ethernet, Harvard is upgrading to a switch system, because of concerns that roaming ethernet would compromise the safety and reliability of a hub system...
...what will the merger do to the price of fares? The idea of a bigger, broader United having so much control over so many hubs is certain to flag antitrust regulators, as well as impelling other airlines to consider similar combinations. Such a process would, of course, lead to more and more control over the hub-and-spoke system by fewer and fewer airlines. United tried to head off those worries by putting some provisions in the deal - promising a fare freeze (except in case of upticks in inflation or gas prices, of course) for two years after the merger...