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...Howe of Forrester Research believes the Internet has helped Apple make headway in the platform wars. "I think Apple doubling its market share is entirely possible," he says, citing a Forrester report that shows Apple had the highest satisfaction and buying index among large companies in North America. The premium they paid to own an Apple (one that is now shrinking) didn't seem to matter much. "Price is the last refuge of the marketer. It's what you sell when you don't have anything else to differentiate you," says Howe. "If prices were all that we cared about...
Will people willingly give up personal information to move more quickly and safely through the air traffic system? Some frequent flyers already do. U.S. airlines such as Delta and American are subtly providing speed lanes with separate security lines for well-known premium passengers. Some 2,000 U.S. and British citizens who fly British Atlantic and Virgin Airways between America and Britain will be able to pass through immigration without stopping. They have provided personal and employment information and signed on to an iris-recognition database. Iris recognition, which will go into operation mid-January at London's Heathrow...
Junk bonds, on the other hand, have rarely been so cheap. They carry an average yield of about 12.25%, vs. about 5% for the benchmark 10-year Treasury bond. The difference between those yields, known as the spread, represents a hefty premium of 7.25 percentage points. The long-run average spread of junk over T-bonds is just...
...right thing to do; it is the smart thing to do. A post-Taliban Afghanistan where women's rights are respected is much less likely to harbor terrorists in the future. Why? Because a society that values all its members, including women, is also likely to put a higher premium on life, opportunity and freedom-values that run directly counter to the evil designs of the Osama bin Laden's of the world...
EXPENSIVE $3,159 GATEWAY 700XL So you want the best there is? How about a 2-GHz Pentium 4 processor with 512MB of RAM, an 80GB hard drive and the top-of-the-line NVidia GeForce3 graphics card? And the extras are as premium as the innards: surround-sound speakers, a wireless mouse, a year of free AOL service and a gorgeous 18-in. flat-panel monitor. www.gateway.com...