Word: ovum
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...fact, he oversees Microsoft's mobile solution centers in Europe, North America, Japan and China. The stakes are huge: tech consultancy Ovum predicts that in five years 46% of the world's 1.95 billion cell phone owners will be using wireless data services. Microsoft is not only competing with Symbian in mobile operating systems, but also positioning itself against Finnish phone maker Nokia in "middleware," the software platforms that mobile phone operators will use (see No. 2, Jorma Ollila...
...Forward Spin: Tech consultancy Ovum predicts enterprise search technology will be a $1.5 billion market...
...danger is that while the lab geeks are perfecting the handsets consumers will find other technologies that suit them just fine, allowing them to put off taking the plunge on 3G until a 4G comes along. John Moroney of Ovum, a consultancy specializing in telecoms, expects it could take five years before 3G becomes a serious consumer business. "There's already an existing good alternative: second generation voice plus sms text messaging," Moroney observes. Then there's so-called 2.5G, which transmits data in a similar fashion to UMTS, but with more limited bandwidth. The innovative Japanese operator...
...Whatever the moral quandaries, the one-stop-shopping aspect of cloning is a plus to many gay couples. Lesbians would have the chance to give birth with no male involved at all; one woman could contribute the ovum, the other the DNA. Christine DeShazo and her partner Michele Thomas of Miramar, Florida, have been in touch with Zavos about producing a baby this way. Because they have already been ostracized as homosexuals, they aren't worried about the added social sting that would come with cloning. "Now (people) would say, 'Not only are you a lesbian, you are a cloning...
...VITRO VERITAS In vitro fertilization can be a harrowing experience. To raise the likelihood of getting a healthy embryo, women inject themselves daily with powerful medication that stimulates the ovaries to produce extra eggs. Now British researchers have experimented with drug-free IVF, using just the single ovum a woman naturally produces each month. After an average of four tries, a woman's chances of having a baby were about 35%--only slightly lower than her odds in many IVF programs...