Word: platforms
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...country's dominant service provider, China Mobile, which boasts a whopping 75% of the subscriber market. China Mobile has tried to get a jump on 3G by handing out free handsets to some 800,000 subscribers beginning last April as part of a trial rollout of the homegrown platform. But the service was plagued by complaints of dropped calls and poor reception, boding ill for its chances of competing against established, reliable standards operated by its two smaller rivals, China Unicom and China Telecom. BDA projects China Mobile's share of subscribers will plunge by 9% over the next four...
...Despite being badly burned the last time around, Khatami will run on a reformist platform for the 2009 election- seeking to improve Iran's standing on the global stage, both politically and economically, and loosen governmental control over social and religious freedoms...
...Elected President in landslide victories in 1997 and 2001. Ran on a moderate platform that focused on increased social freedom, a stronger democratic process and extensive economic reform. He was especially popular with the country's women and youth and received the endorsement of outgoing president Hashemi Rafsanjani during his first campaign...
...Nonetheless, in an interview last month, Martin Nisenholtz, who oversees the far-flung digital operations of the New York Times, said the Kindle has been a "surprisingly successful" platform for his newspaper. "There's not a lot of evidence right now that people view the PC as the device they want to read on," he said. "And that's interesting because the PC is a general-interest device - we had hoped to see a little bit more of an uptake on that. On the other hand, we've seen a tremendous amount of uptake on the Kindle. It just works...
...former manager of Wellesley College’s endowment—wrote that Harvard had no plans to change the current allocations, which had been in place before her tenure began in July. “The business model at HMC—the internal platform combined with a selectively chosen external set—is the right one for our future,” she wrote. —Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...