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...download as many movies as you want. Each feature-length film takes 20 minutes to a half hour to download via a typical cable-modem connection. Surprisingly, the video quality is as good as a DVD, crisp enough even when stretched across the full 15-in. screen of a laptop...
...improvement is the way the tiny, dual-joint speakers can be made to pivot in six directions instead of two, allowing the wearer to position them at almost any angle. Operationally, the Thump 2 is a breeze, coming with a USB cable that lets you plug it into your laptop, PC or Mac, and upload songs in WMA, WAV or iTunes formats as well as regular MP3. It can also store data files, which leads one to the tantalizing possibility of turning up to a meeting, taking off a pair of shades and uploading a presentation from them. Now that...
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice helped firm up support for the IAEA vote by having aides brief foreign officials on a trove of documents that, according to U.S. diplomatic sources, expose a clandestine Iranian military nuclear-research operation. The documents, found in 2004 on a laptop computer, which U.S. intelligence believes came from an Iranian engineer, contain data on tests for high explosives, a design for a missile re-entry vehicle and a diagram of a green-salt production line. Separately, those areas of research could imply fairly benign intentions. But if an Iranian military agency has been coordinating...
...bright side for Geely and Chery is that Americans are growing accustomed to higher-end Chinese products, such as flat-screen TVs and laptop PCs. Art Spinella, president of CNW Marketing Research, surveyed consumers to see if they would consider buying a Chinese car. About 36% said they would. "That level of consideration is twice what it was for Korean brands 10 years ago," he says. Mel Rapton, the California car dealer, figures that a combo of 100,000-mile warranties and cut-rate pricing will get Chinese cars moving. "It's a pretty big gamble," the 77-year...
...online. When the 50-year-old manager of the Brown Shoe Co. loses an employee, what does he do? He reaches for the phone to put an ad in the paper because that's what he's always done. What's his son going to do? Flip open his laptop. That's evolutionary. It's a gradual process. We're trying to make it revolutionary. I'm glad I'm on our side, not theirs. But they'll diversify...