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...trillion electron volts, for a combined 7 trillion--a new world-record energy level. The victory was a long time coming for CERN, Europe's nuclear-research group, which for 15 years has pumped $10 billion into the setback-plagued project. The experiments are expected to reveal much about the nature of the universe, including other dimensions, dark matter and the Higgs boson, the particle that could explain how energy from the Big Bang turned into mass...
...wordsmith. He runs a gadget company. And that's the problem: Motorola was once renowned for manufacturing ultra-chic mobile phones. Yet since 2006, that business has been in free fall, and the company's overall revenue has dropped by half. The recession didn't help much. Keeping the $22 billion firm afloat were its less glamorous but profitable units that sell two-way police radios, barcode scanners and networking equipment for telecom carriers...
That investment is showing some positive signs. Handset sales began slowly improving in late 2009 as Jha set about changing Motorola's 9-to-5 corporate culture and wooed top talent away from competitors. He scrapped much of the 2009 product portfolio in favor of new smart-phone offerings, all running Google's Android operating platform. (Get the latest gadget news and reviews at Techland.com...
...Motorola in the long run, especially if Apple breaks its exclusive contract with AT&T. The Crowd Science survey found that iPhone users account for 1 in 3 smart-phone owners. Among non-iPhone users, nearly 40% say they would switch to an iPhone for their next purchase. "Much of Droid's success has resulted from Verizon pushing it as its lead product," says Jefferies & Co. analyst William Choi. "What happens when Verizon can sell the iPhone?" (See 10 ways Twitter will change American business...
...Time Inc., while at the magazine, the team was led by Quittner, our indefatigable design director D.W. Pine and our photo director Kira Pollack. Executive producer Cathy Sharick mobilized the staff at TIME.com We also worked closely with the Wonderfactory, a New York City digital-design shop, and learned much from the terrific work SPORTS ILLUSTRATED head Terry McDonnell did with the company on the SI tablet prototype. Finally, WoodWing, the Dutch company that makes our publishing software, created a system that allows our designers to easily embed photo galleries and video on pages that will be reformatted into...