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...good as the thing it seeks to displace. Most people would agree that the automobile was exponentially better than the horse, just as the personal computer was a vast improvement over the typewriter. The change didn't happen overnight; it took time for both the auto and the PC to be easy enough to use and cheap enough to buy before they were adopted by the mass market. E?readers must exponentially improve on the experience of reading on paper. (See the 50 best inventions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Race for a Better Read | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...unclear why such duplication exists, but it could be that these victims made efforts to list their clients (who did not have direct accounts with Madoff) or that they had multiple accounts. But many pension funds, like Orthopaedic Specialty Group PC, which had 140 investors, appeared as just one Madoff client. Orthopaedic Specialty Group is the Fairfield, Conn., pension fund mentioned by Dr. Henry Backe in the Senate Banking Committee hearings last week. Backe was seeking from the committee clarification on allowing his employees to file individually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bernie Madoff Client List Is Made Public | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

Over the last two years, in the PC business Michael Dell has been beaten like a rented mule. His company continues to lose market share particularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dell: A Phone is Not a PC | 1/30/2009 | See Source »

...Dell does not do well what it is supposed to do well. It has become a second rate PC company. It proposes to partially offset that by entering a business which is controlled by Apple (AAPL) and RIM (RIMM), the maker of the Blackberry. Because smartphone margins are high, Nokia (NOK), the world largest cellphone company, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson are also rushing into the market. The traffic jam is going to be extraordinary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dell: A Phone is Not a PC | 1/30/2009 | See Source »

...high-performance speakers, the Boom ($260) is built to shake the room. And there's no end to the tunes you can blast out of this little black box. It can wirelessly stream Web stations and - if you can't find anything you like online - music stored on your PC's hard drive. It also connects to personalized internet radio services like Last.fm, Pandora and Slacker. www.logitech.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Jukebox | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

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