Word: platformization
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...larger than a typical candy-bar phone. Like standard phones, it has no touch screen ? you operate it with buttons; unlike standard phones, it has an HTML browser, can juggle multiple e-mail accounts and can be filled with store-bought applications. The SDA is a platform for complex useful software, and not, like some phones, merely a way for a carrier to sell you overpriced, oversimplified downloads...
...useful platform for software such as CoPilot. Though the system occasionally strains when it's given too much to do, it manages to pull through without freezing up. The battery life is pretty good, too: During a two-hour round trip with the screen backlight on and the speaker barking navigational instructions, the SDA didn't even lose a bar of battery power...
...Unbearable Whiteness of Barbie" (the name of an actual Occidental College course), was there not a need for a doll that "looks like America"? Absolutely, but diverse is one thing, dissolute another. Most critics focus on the clothes, which lean past trendy to trashy: torn jeans, bare navels, platform shoes, microskirts with chains. It's easy to imagine that behind those pouting lips lies a pierced tongue. But that's not really the issue. You could strip them naked, re-outfit them from Cinderella Barbie's closet and still have a problem...
...rescinded that endorsement several days later. Despite the bitter election, Voith expressed his confidence in Haddock’s leadership yesterday, though he questioned the direction of the council. “I think that John Haddock is very capable of fulfilling those things that he outlined in his platform,” Voith said. “In terms of what the UC should be doing, I think that is something that students across campus would disagree with.” —Staff writer Alexander D. Blankfein can be reached at ablankf@fas.harvard.edu...
...management with the U.S. has already been lost," says Perrin Beatty, head of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, an Ottawa-based lobby group. Beatty, who was the last Tory Foreign Minister before MacKay (in Kim Campbell's short-lived 1993 government), hopes the Harper team will live up to its election-platform commitments to expand free trade in the hemisphere and around the world and revive the dialogue with the U.S. about the North American economy. Also on the should-do list, according to Beatty and other policy analysts: strengthening continental security and developing a post-Kyoto approach to lowering greenhouse...