Word: passport
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...waiting for their return. This is hugely useful and a big hit. But coupled with Microsoft's push into your private life--you also have to register online or by phone to activate XP, and messages on the task bar are forever bugging you to sign up for Passport, the company's controversial online wallet system--it's a little too creepy...
...also puts them in an ideal position to pitch users the company?s alternative: Microsoft Passport, the one-stop "e-wallet" which has already been called an attempted "choke point" on e-commerce by none other than Microsoft?s chief rival, AOL-Time Warner (parent company of this writer, and developer of competing choke points...
...feds thought Windows and Explorer were a potent combination in the age of the desktop wars, they might want to take a look at what Explorer and Passport can do together in the next battle: the e-commerce wars. The way Gates sees it, not only would an Explorer-promoted Passport have the definitive leg up in delivering Web shoppers to sites of Microsoft?s choosing, Explorer-Passport could then become the mother of all cookies, protecting users? online privacy by keeping the information all to itself...
...April from the Milan-based Sant'Angelica cosmetics firm, Durrani brought Fakhra's case to the company's attention and it offered to underwrite the cost of her reconstructive surgery. The next challenge was to procure a national ID card for Fakhra so she would be eligible for a passport to travel to Italy for the operation. A technicality held up the process until Durrani marched into the office of Pakistan's Interior Minister, retired Lieut. General Moinuddin Haider, known as a progressive and no-nonsense official. The minister's response, Durrani says, was that publicizing Fakhra's case abroad...
...ships (though not, it seems, the admiral himself) sought out, in 1432 on their seventh voyage. The Salalah Holiday Inn slumbers near the spot where old Chinese coins were once discovered. The classified section of the Oman Daily Observer reports that someone named Zou Shichui has lost a Chinese passport - and one wonders which part of limbo the unfortunate now inhabits. To retrace the Chinese travels in Arabia is to see how the world is not always growing more connected, as we like to think, but often less so: the ports the Chinese visited in the 15th century are obscure...