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...Spotify doesn't see itself as a rival to iTunes, mainly because it feels that it offers a service iTunes can't match. "We honestly don't think there is a direct competitor to Spotify, as no one's doing exactly what we're doing at the moment," Butcher says via e-mail. "We're confident that Apple will allow the Spotify app, as we think it will improve the iPhone users' experience even further." (Read "Maximize Your iPhone...
...abandon its nuclear-weapons program in return for a range of economic benefits, including the construction of two light water nuclear reactors to generate electricity for the impoverished country. In fact, it was pursuit of that agreement that set the precedent for Clinton's current trip: at a moment when it seemed as if a deal might be falling apart, Clinton dispatched former President Jimmy Carter to meet with Kim Il Sung, father of Kim Jong Il. (See pictures of North Korea's leader...
...release removes one obvious thorn between Washington and Pyongyang, whose relations in the past six months have sunk to a level "that's as bad as I've ever seen them," as Clinton's former ambassador to the U.N., Bill Richardson, said on Tuesday. Now the question of the moment is, Will the former President's visit reverse that deteriorating dynamic? Clinton met with Kim for 3½ hours on Tuesday evening. Even if the former President didn't - as the White House insisted - bring a specific message to Kim from Obama, it's safe to assume...
...destination. He got to his stop, paid the driver, and turned around and asked the stranger “Do you want to make love to me?” (That’s the tamest way I can put the translation.) The girl thought for a moment, and then shook her head as if it did not matter either way, then got out of the taxi and went off with him. He said that they spent a passionate night together and that he was very lucky because this woman had a very, very nice house (electricity and running water...
...technology, energy and transportation. Recall, please, the national mood in the 1970s: after the 1960s party, we found ourselves in a slough of despond, with an oil crisis, a terrible recession, declining productivity, a kind of Weimarish embrace of cultural decadence, national malaise. And yet at that very dispirited moment, Federal Express, Microsoft and Apple were all founded. Even now Apple and Amazon and Google have been doing better than the rest of the economy. The next transformative, moneymaking technologies and businesses are coming soon to a garage near...