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...Numbers 30% Percentage of young Indians in a recent survey who chose Mahatma Gandhi as their favorite role model 37% Percentage who chose Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates...
...less than a year, iTunes went from having five TV shows to 220, and several studio execs told TIME they will eventually open up to iTunes, once they can work out the right pricing. Downloads run on any Windows Media-- compatible device, and they're expected to work on Microsoft's upcoming Zune player. With such partners as MGM, Sony and Universal, Amazon is rapidly expanding its catalog. Netflix could be in trouble if rival download services cut into its mail-order business. Expect lots of titles to be available for download--along with potentially aggressive pricing-- as Netflix tries...
...corporate BlackBerrys, e-mails appear on the device as soon as they are received. Our only problem was that Microsoft's Hotmail was not compatible, although its MSN Messenger, like AIM and Yahoo!, could be accessed through the Pearl's instant-messaging program. The keyboard, which overlays QWERTY onto a standard-looking number pad, was remarkably good at anticipating what word or phrase we meant to type before we were done. With Bluetooth wireless connectivity, voice dialing and a new application that lets you zoom and swoop all over a U.S. road map, the complete package is so seductive...
...anxious to play down the controversy. However, experts praise the company for taking a more principled stance than some of its rivals have. According to a Human Rights Watch report issued last month, Yahoo voluntarily handed over incriminating info that led to the arrest of four Chinese dissidents; Microsoft censored searches and deleted blogs in China; and Skype configured its Chinese software to censor certain words in its chat function...
...There may eventually be a few individuals at the margins who still choose to use Microsoft, but the majority should be free of this hardship." M.A. BABY, education minister of the Indian state of Kerala, which plans to replace Microsoft programs with open-source software in 12,500 state high schools...