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...movie-set corporate, his desk a black African-wengewood-and-brushed-chrome counter on a raised dais in front of a bank of computers and flat-screen televisions (all on, 24/7). He keeps his Blackberry communicator and a Nokia 8100 Worldphone at his fingertips, a slim purple Sony Vaio laptop at arm's reach...
...corps. There we were again on Tuesday, crammed into the auditorium of Infinite Loop building 4 on Apple's Cupertino campus for the launch of the new and improved iBook. Who else but Jobs could attract a standing-room-only theaterful of journos for something so mundane as a laptop show-and-tell, we mused afterwards? To be fair, most of us were there as a result of that classic Apple tactic: don't show or tell until the very last possible moment...
...four-wheel-drive Pajeros in Europe and North America because of a faulty rear brake. Customers there got free repairs. Chinese owners did not. Only after a Chinese government-affiliated consumers' group filed suit did Mitsubishi agree to pay compensation. Similarly, Toshiba offered free repairs and compensation for faulty laptop computers sold in the U.S. while Chinese buyers were left in the lurch. "Such behavior by the Japanese has harmed the reputation of Japanese business and lowered their products' prestige," says Yang Jiankun, secretary-general of the Chinese Consumers Association. A recent poll on one Chinese website found that...
...really running small businesses but haven't been given any of the tools to do it," says Orly Avitzur, a Tarrytown, N.Y., neurologist who pays $99 a month for a digital charting program from Medscape. Working at her Dell laptop, Avitzur is automatically prompted to ask her patients about certain symptoms, from dizziness to headaches. She no longer has to shell out $15,000 annually to have her scribbled notes and dictations transcribed, and she can send info to insurers or other consulting doctors in a matter of hours, not days...
...this year. Slowing profits, lack of visibility beyond the next few months, and sympathy selling have scratched once Teflon-tough technology stocks like Cisco, Oracle and Intel. They're so cheap now, you can buy a dozen shares of each for less than the price of a laptop...