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...Internet Wars Thanks for Josh Quittner's excellent article on who will rule the Internet [June 16]. He's right that the mobile platform is increasingly the primary interface for millions, but it might not be the iPhone. Here in the U.S., we are far behind in the mobile revolution. Powerful handheld computers with features like wi-fi have been available in other countries for a while, and in these countries, Symbian is already a leader in the smart-phone OS market. Regan Coleman, Austin, Texas...
...Future of the Internet There is a new platform on the horizon. It's the mobile platform. Here in the U.S., we are far behind in the mobile revolution [June 16]. Europe is ahead of us, but the real cutting edge is in Asia. Powerful handheld computers with features such as wi-fi may be new to the U.S., but they've been available in other countries for a while. The rest of the world has already chosen the platform of the future, and it's Symbian. Regan Coleman, AUSTIN, TEXAS...
...From 1980 until 1994, when Mosaic/Netscape emerged, Gates played a scratch game, parlaying his little "Micro- Soft" company into an empire that defined the PC Era. By opening up Windows to third-party developers, he created a platform that made many developers rich, and built out an ecosystem that put a desktop in almost every home...
...launched a gated online service, MSN; a Web-based email client, Hotmail was purchased in 1997; a search engine, MSN Search, launched in 1998 using a third-party product as its core; a chat client, Messenger, was released in 1999; and last year it bought an online advertising platform, aQuantive and became a significant, though minority investor, in social network Facebook...
...current lull in violence, the GAO contends, is like a stool that rests on three legs: the U.S. troop surge, a creaky cease-fire declared by Shi'ite militias loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr and a U.S.-led effort to hire former insurgents to guard their neighborhoods - hardly a platform for sustainable political and social reform. Indeed, the GAO accuses the Pentagon of cherry-picking the information from Iraq that substantiates the claim of progress and ignoring more unpalatable indicators...