Word: ovum
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...tuna tartare, mushrooms, chicken, crab cakes, asparagus, salad. And it always works, adding a richness and silkiness to everything, a protein-on-protein, Atkins-era overindulgence that makes me psyched to be an American. "Hey, this is delicious, but wouldn't it be better if we plopped some bird ovum...
...Clifford can't rest on his laurels. While Symbian has excelled in the market for business users, it has not done as well with consumer phones, notes Ovum analyst Tony Cripps in London. And Microsoft is gaining ground, according to Nomura security analyst Richard Windsor, who predicts 25.8 million Microsoft users by 2007, behind Symbian's 54.3 million. Clifford, 45, is fazed less by Microsoft and by other mobile operating systems like Linux and Palmsource's PalmOS than by another force: his target customers. If he can get more handset vendors to adopt Symbian technology and can persuade his existing...
...long-term strategy to "get closer to the client," and unrelated to the announcement last week that first-quarter sales in Europe and Japan were down 5%. And some analysts say it makes sense. " Europe 's long since needed sorting out," says Ian Wesley of technology analysts Ovum. "Part of an outsourcer's job is to get rid of people when you no longer need them." Still, there's no guarantee that gains will follow. IBM's global services account for more than half of its $100 billion in revenues, but the profit margins are slim. The IT services market...
...best sections are those dealing with dairy products, eggs, meats and fish. In his introduction on the lore of the egg, McGee writes that at one point in history, eggs existed before chickens. He hastens to explain that by egg he refers to the specialized container of the ovum of early organisms that predated all birds by millions of years. Pleasant rambling through history makes good reading, but the author's practical information is more illuminating. For instance, beaten egg whites are important to cakes and soufflés because they hold air that expands as it heats. Yolks, which hold...
...approximate relationship to the melodies on which they're based. But like the craze for plastic mobile-phone covers, ring tones are more about making a personal fashion statement. "You're not buying a ring tone to enjoy Christina Aguilera," says Ovum analyst Dario Betti. "You're buying it to tell everyone else who you are." And for that assertion of identity, high-use mobile-phone customers (read: teenagers) are willing to pay dearly. British consumers pay the most - between $2.70 and $6.40 for a ring tone, while it costs just $1.45 to get the whole song online. Though charges...