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...smart move, seeding the marketplace with Microsoft products and Intel chips under cover of democratizing the industry. (Two wireless companies have already expressed interest, according to Microsoft.) But that doesn't guarantee Gates another victory. He tried this strategy before by squeezing the same applications onto the Pocket PC, in an effort to steal market share from the popular Palm Pilot, but most Palm users preferred their current software's simplicity. Cell-phone users may turn out to be similarly wary. "The mobile environment is not simply about downscaling the PC world," warns Timo Poikolainen, a director of Nokia...
...roomful of fledgling journalists if they would be willing to die for the truth, and not a hand will be raised. They do not mean no, exactly. They simply give the hypothesis a pocket veto. They think, for one thing, that the question is too darkly phrased and even implies an obscure promise of martyrdom--not normally the journalist's line of work. Ask the young roomful, instead, whether they would be willing to risk their lives to cover extreme situations in faraway places and report the truth, and the best in the room will get a gleam in their...
...deck of cards, weighs in at just 4.8 oz., stands about 3 in. tall but takes relatively hefty 2-megapixel pictures. It can also shoot a 35-sec. movie and comes with a 168-MB media storage card that holds a whopping 130 images. It's the perfect pocket partner for big shots...
...seems fitting that Murdoch could be the last man standing in the current sports-broadcasting dilemma. He was, after all, present at the creation. Before the 1990s, Europe's airwaves were ruled mainly by public terrestrial television stations, which paid, by today's standards, mere pocket money for the rights to screen football and other sports. But with the advent of private and pay-TV networks came the search for content that would not only attract viewers, but also build the kind of loyal subscriber bases and demographics that advertisers love. The answer? Sport, once famously described by Murdoch...
...more, growing numbers of businesses and consumers are abandoning HMOs. In California, the state that pioneered managed care, the percentage of people enrolled in HMOs has fallen below 50% for the first time in eight years. Most are moving toward costlier plans with higher premiums and more out-of-pocket expenses...