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...burden of 2.5 retirees to active workers. Furthermore, GM continues to structurally shrink as it loses market share in the U.S., which means that a smaller company is supporting more retirees. Until GM stabilizes market share, rationalizes capacity at every point in the value chain, and invests heavily in product, its restructuring actions will only allow it to tread water at best...
...snazzy product that resembles the Magellan RoadMate series, the Blackbird also suctions to your windshield and powers itself from your 12V lighter jack. That's the only plugging you have to do in order to play - its internal GPS receiver quickly picks up your location, even if your view of the sky is partially obstructed. It contains the latest version of Navteq's map database, the same database used by Mapquest and Google...
...realized until June, when a major software update will be released. Customers who buy the Blackbird now will be able to download the software for free. Not only will it contain the latest map of the U.S.; it will also activate the real-time traffic receiver built into the product. (Navteq currently tracks traffic in 31 cities, and will most likely charge $60 per year for the service...
...market for a navigation product, the Blackbird certainly holds its own against competition from Garmin, TomTom, Magellan and soon, Sony and Mio. But if you want to get your $750 worth, you had better be ready to upgrade (via Web download or CD-ROM) this summer...
...President Lawrence H. Summers’ embattled tenure, Lewis argued, is the result of the same forces. “Ultimately, Summers lacked the skills needed to make significant improvements in undergraduate education,” Lewis wrote, saying that the former Treasury secretary “was the product, not the source, of the trends that brought Harvard to its present predicament.” Lewis added that “incompetent administration and lack of sustained attention” hampered Summers’ agenda more than any resistance by the faculty. “[I]n a university...