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...Look at the way the color progresses from the center of the glass to the rim,” White said. “I’d describe it as a pale salmon color, kind of peachy...
...decor to provide them. (Or to lure the crowd that completes the picture.) This is why restaurants are now second only to museums as the places where designers get to take their most audacious ideas out to play. In London and Milan, along the Pacific Rim, in Miami and Los Angeles and even Bombay, restaurants are the hot design laboratories...
...their opponents shot 47%), and against Australia the Americans missed 15 outside shots in a row--during warm-ups. The U.S. has the world's best inside player in the heroically shy San Antonio Spurs star Tim Duncan, but epochs go by without his touching the ball near the rim, where he is almost unstoppable...
That may not be anywhere near the hundreds of millions of mobile phones sold every year, but the growth has made a huge impression on cell-phone and PDA vendors. Nokia, Siemens, Samsung, Sony, Ericsson, Microsoft and PalmSource have licensed RIM's e-mail software, helping the company ring up $594.6 million in revenues in 2003, making it almost double its size of a year earlier. Why did the device catch on so fast? Unlike earlier handhelds, the BlackBerry pushed e-mail right to the device, rather than merely alerting users that they had e-mail the device could fetch...
...RIM is facing new challenges. If the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington does not overturn a lower-court ruling that RIM violated patents held by a rival, the company could be barred from selling in the U.S. And Lazaridis has to worry that his licensees might kill his hardware business--although, even if they do, RIM still has a healthy software and services business, which brings in close to one-third of its revenues. BlackBerry's success has made Lazaridis wealthy enough to donate more than $100 million to his other passion--quantum computing research--at the University...