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Indeed, iBeer's creator, Sheraton, said he's seen it all before, on the old Palm Pilot platform. His first app was E-spresso, in 1999, which created a virtual cup of espresso on the Palm, the first great PDA. "Having lived through the Palm apps market, I was able to predict what would happen here as well," he said. "There are way too many apps, and the prices will drop through the bottom...
...That opinion, apparently, is not universally shared. October 31 marks the 30th anniversary of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA), which outlawed employment discrimination against women who are Poehler-ized. But the news that pregnant women need to be treated as would any employee with a broken leg or other temporary disability - i.e., not get fired or demoted - seems to have not quite sunk in. Complaints to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) are on a decade-long rise, up 65% from 1992 to 2007. And the number of cases the EEOC has decided to take on has quadrupled...
...would expect that pregnancy bias would be a non-issue by now, 30 years after passage of the PDA," says Christine Nazer, a spokesperson for the EEOC. Yet in 2007, claims hit a record of 5,587, and the commission won nearly $2 million for women who claimed they'd been sold up the creek for being up the duff. Pregnancy claims are still a very small part of the cases the EEOC deals with and haven't grown nearly as fast as charges of false dismissal for retaliation, religion or national origin. Possibly that's because pregnancy discrimination...
...years at Vivendi. Yet it is Messier's calamitous experience with the buzzy, fuzzy concept of convergence that has made him a player again. Just as in 2000, media and Web companies today talk of straddling a world in which users of any device--mobile phone, laptop, PDA, TV--can command voice, data, video, entertainment and games on demand. Messier saw that coming--perhaps too soon...
...married, by far the most annoying and the most frequent couple to populate this campus. Like you, couple that never leaves the Eliot d-hall—the laptops in front of you do not hide your really awkward PDA. I get it, marrieds. You have found your soulmate, the ying to your yang, the Tom to your robot Katie. Marrieds feel the need to always demonstrate how happy they are. They must be stopped...