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...advocacy organizations - known as 527 groups, after the section of the tax code under which they are formed - which, Obama said, will spend "millions and millions of dollars in unlimited donations" to damage his reputation. (So far, a well-funded 527 movement against him has not materialized.) His Republican rival, John McCain, said Obama "has completely reversed himself and gone back, not on his word to me, but the commitment he made to the American people." McCain, has said he will accept the public funding available for the general campaign, although he is also the subject of a lawsuit filed...
...from PCs to the network that connected them, his moves were limited. A fiercely competitive man, he reached for the obvious lever, and attempted to tie the late-starter Internet Explorer browser to the monopoly he created, the Windows operating system. The move was mercilessly effective and beat back rival Netscape, which immediately saw its commanding share of the browser market disappear...
...While Microsoft is exponentially larger than Google - number 44 on the Fortune 500 list versus Google at 150 - Google's Web business (advertising mostly) is growing so fast, it's poised to rival Redmond's operating system revenues by 2010. And that's the problem. As more and more of what Windows does moves up into the cloud - into Google's always-on, give-'em-whatever-they-want-for-free servers - what becomes of the company that Gates built...
Obama capped the week in Unity, N.H., his arm carefully touching the back of his erstwhile rival, Hillary Clinton, as they waved together to the crowd and the cameras in a smoothly choreographed hatchet-burying ceremony. Though Bill was still off sulking, the prospect of the Clinton machine buttressing Obama's army of supporters and donors made many a Republican swallow hard...
Clinton's speech was effective in part because she didn't pretend otherwise. The photos said lovefest - his tie matched her suit and his arm was around her like Donnie and Marie - but her words subtly signaled that she was entering the tent of a once (and possibly future) rival solely to concentrate fire outward. She reminded a crowd long on anti-war voters that only three times in her 40 years of political life has a Democrat won a presidential election. "We cannot let this moment slip away," she said emphatically...