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...platforms are very different in other areas. The PS3 thinks locally - it handles content best when it's on its hard drive, or on a disc in its drive, or on a memory card or USB keychain that's plugged in directly. The Xbox 360 is all about the network...
...Team Xbox knows about your music collection. If the Xbox 360 is connected to your home network (via Ethernet or a $100 Wi-Fi accessory), you can quickly pull up tracks from PCs around the house. You can also stream photos and videos, although not all formats are supported and the photo browsing, while thorough, lacked the sophistication of the PS3. Team Xbox also knows about your iPod. You plug it directly into the Xbox 360 to play any tracks but the ones you bought on iTunes. If you happen to have a Zune, you may plug that into...
...yourself. By purchasing Corus, for example, low-cost steel producer Tata Steel hopes to get access to technology to make more sophisticated products, as well as a European client base. By bidding for Daewoo, Videocon seeks a foothold in East Asian markets and an extended global marketing-and-sales network. There are other compelling reasons to go abroad. International exposure may be essential for Indian companies to maintain high sales-growth rates. Because of a host of problems at home, such as pervasive poverty and obsolete, overtaxed transportation and power networks, India's most successful companies have in some ways...
...million Number of homes worldwide that can tune in to Al-Jazeera's English-news network on TV, which launched last week...
...Number of major American cable operators that have agreed to carry the network...