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...also ultimately hurt Microsoft’s market share. The firm’s few competitors in the operating system market, most notably Apple’s OS X, have been gaining ground in recent months . The scrappy Cupertino-based consumer electronics firm has seen a substantial increase in laptop sales, and has even released a series of advertisements poking fun at Vista’s more intrusive features, such as User Account Control . In these ways, Vista’s shortcomings may have been contributing to Microsoft’s market share loss to Apple...
...during his six years at Vivendi. Yet it is Messier's calamitous experience with the buzzy, fuzzy concept of convergence that has made him a player again. Just as in 2000, media and Web companies today talk of straddling a world in which users of any device--mobile phone, laptop, PDA, TV--can command voice, data, video, entertainment and games on demand. Messier saw that coming--perhaps too soon...
...When you pop open your laptop in the cafeteria, you have to register your number to receive alerts before you get wireless access,” Crum said...
...that Insulza still doesn't face an Andes-sized test in mediating the latest regional crisis. Colombia snubbed the OAS and instead went to the United Nations this week with its complaints against Chavez. Those include what Colombian police call solid evidence gleaned from the laptop computer of the No. 2 commander of the FARC guerrilla army - Raul Reyes, who was killed in Saturday's raid - that Chavez has funneled as much as $300 million to the rebels and should therefore be charged with financing terrorists, who Bogota alleges are also seeking uranium to make a dirty bomb. Uribe, remarkably...
...well. Everyone benefits from the lower prices that result from companies moving overseas. Globalization doesn’t hit only the U.S. either. This year, some 10,000 Chinese factories are expected to relocate to cheaper spots like Indonesia and Vietnam. We won’t complain when laptop prices drop. Still, Obama hopes to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement, his most perplexing proposal yet. He wants to impose labor and environmental standards on Canadian and Mexican companies, so U.S. companies face “fair” competition. Such standards, however, impede competition. The free market allows...