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...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...
...residents of Thayer Hall reported that an unidentified male stole a laptop and a television from a room in Thayer on Wednesday night, according to an e-mail sent by the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD). The burglar entered the victim’s walk-through double through the room’s unlocked door at around 11:20 p.m., according to the victim’s roommate Haili E. Muse ’11. Muse said that the burglar then asked her for a person whose name she did not recognize. “I got really freaked...