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...Verizon, which is the largest cellular carrier in the United States, could help Microsoft's efforts to become a significant presence in the mobile software market. Microsoft's problem is that there is no reason to believe that it, or any other company, will be able to launch a phone that will break the chokehold that the Blackberry and iPhone have. Samsung has tried with its Instinct model, and Google (GOOG) provides its Android software for a handset sold by T-Mobile, the No.4 U.S. carrier. The Samsung and Google-powered products have barely made a dent in the market...
...conventional wisdom is that the Microsoft phone launch with Verizon will be a failure before the first handset is shipped. This is a case where conventional wisdom is almost certainly true. Microsoft's Zune could not compete with the iPod because it did not offer any important new features and Apple has been in the market long enough to dominate...
...Microsoft's future may not be in its new phone or its new search technology or anything the public is aware of now. The next product that comes from the company's ingenuity may be hidden from the eyes of Microsoft's customers and investors. The odds of that product being successful may only be 100-to-1. That has not seemed to deter the company one bit. Microsoft repeatedly launches new products and initiatives that fail. And, that is Microsoft's strength. It may be a huge company and in the world of technology...
...sustained outbreak could mean not returning to his hometown of San Luis Potosí in Mexico for the summer. “There is a sort of fear [in San Luis]. People are afraid to go out. Everyone wears face masks,” said Marmolejo, describing phone calls from friends and family back home. “I was thinking about going back, but now I’m just going to see how it evolves from here.” According to the World Health Organization, swine flu is a strain of the influenza virus found in pigs...
...hand over a bigger share of revenue to the government and pressured banks to cut interest rates, Ecuador - unlike Venezuela and Bolivia - hasn't nationalized industries. Indeed, Correa does not shy from development that irks his presumed base of support. A workaholic micromanager who peppers his ministers with cell-phone calls, Correa backed new legislation designed to develop untouched deposits of gold and copper, angering indigenous groups and environmentalists. Communists rail against his introduction of testing of public-school teachers. "Correa isn't stupid," says analyst Margarita Andrade at Analytica Investments in Quito...